Got Questions About WP7? MS Will Provide An Answer

About two weeks ago Brandon Watson, Microsoft’s Director of Development Experience, hosted a live web chat on WindowsPhone7.com and was very open throughout the entire Q&A session providing a lot of new information about Windows Phone 7. During the interview he even stated that if anyone had any follow-up questions to just reach out to … Read more

Weatherbug Coming To WP7

The CEO of Weatherbug sat down to talk to Channel9 to talk about using Silverlight, Bing Maps and how that relates to WP7. They note the ease of using Bing’s maps (which they’re using across the board now) and the benefit of not having to write the maps on the backside and by using Silverlight … Read more

WP7 Web Push and PPT2010 Remote Control

This is a drop premature (I’ll update the posting later) but neat enough to share now. KSMarshall from Clarity Consulting has begun showing off two new demos. The first lets you do what Froyo does – send a web link from your PC to your phone.  The video will open in your media player. In … Read more

SQL CE Is In WP7 – Will There Be Access?

We were just talking about SQL Server CE Databases in WP7. Well JustinAngel just tweeted “Windows Phone 7 has System.Data.SqlServerCE.dll and some SQL Server CE Databases” and he further notes “if it’s in the GAC and it’s Microsoft authored, it’s fully enabled under Silverlight security model. Haven’t tried” Let’s see where this is headed…

Voxofon First To Announce VOIP For WP7

With all the news about Skype and Nimbuzz it’s good to see that some companies are releasing VOIP solutions for WP7 and Voxoon is the first. And you can call other VOIP customers on Skype with their software. Here’s their release: Voxofon – a leading provider of mobile IP-based communication services – is extending its … Read more

WP7 Foxtel App Impresses

Microsoft was hosting Remix in Australia and got together with cable provider Foxtel to show off some kickass implementations of MS technology including an HD2 and Surface which interacts for movie data. But there was also a WP7 on stage. So according to itwire here’s what went down. Based on WP7’s location awareness, the device … Read more

edot WP7 App Demoed

Here’s a simple app created for edot (Every Day One Thing – a site which aims to get people to do one environmentally good thing a day and share it in hopes of spreading the behavior). The app itself was originally written for Windows 7 in a few hours and then ported to WP7 in … Read more