Silverlight 5 announced: Features breakdown
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has just announced Silverlight 5 a few seconds ago during his Silverlight Firestarter keynote. Silverlight now support 100% GPU acceleration for video content. Microsoft has...
View Article11 More Windows Phone 7 sessions added MIX11. But they are still a mystery
As Mary Jo just pointed out Microsoft has just added 11 new Windows Phone related sessions to the MIX11 calendar. The sessions’ topics probably won’t be unveiled before the conference’s opening...
View ArticleAll Windows Phone 7 MIX11 sessions unveiled
Remember the 11 mystery sessions that pooped up on the MIX11 website agenda last week? Well, here’s what they are all about: - What’s Coming Next to the Windows Phone Application Platform - Going...
View ArticleSkype, Layar, Spotify for Windows Phone 7 announced. New developer tools and...
Many Windows Phone 7 users should be happy to learn that Microsoft has announced the upcoming availability of Skype, Spotify, Layar (augmented reality app), Quantas for Windows Phone 7. Joe Belfiore...
View ArticleAll about the new Windows Phone 7 Mango features
Most of the new features which are going to be introduced in the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Mango update have just been demonstrated on stage during the MIX11 keynote. So in case you didn’t check it out...
View ArticleWatch the MIX11 Windows Phone 7 Mango, Silverlight 5 and Kinect SDK keynote
Here’s your chance to watch yesterday’s MIX11 keynote about Mango, Silverlight 5 and the Kinect SDK. I’ve already talked about most of what was announced here (besides the SIMD / NEON stuff that...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Mango media and speed improvements overview: 32bit color...
Now that MIX11 is finished I took the time to watch most of the Windows Phone 7 related sessions looking for some interesting info that may have been missed earlier. The first thing to note is that...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 Mango applications performance tweaks detailed
Two of Microsoft’s Mango most anticipated features are undoubtedly the new smooth scrolling ListBox control and off-thread decoding of images that will finally allow third party applications to be a...
View ArticleSpotify for Windows Phone 7 coming today
According to the folks who are attending the Mango launch event in today, the long awaited Spotify application for Windows Phone 7 application is ready to hit the marketplace today. They’ve also shot...
View ArticleSkype for Windows Phone 7 is still coming soon
You got to love delays. Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about them especially when the company decides to stay silent about a product. As you all already know, Skype for Windows Phone was...
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