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Download Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training
Microsoft MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley recently led an incredibly well received live training course about a month ago which focused on getting developers trained up on building amazing applications and games for Windows Phone 7. So, Microsoft decided to publish this training for the developers around the world. There are 12 sessions in total, each about 50 minutes in length.
According to Microsoft “Andy and Rob provide a good bit of humor along with their incredible depth of knowledge on the topic of building apps and games for Windows Phone 7. We recognize that providing as much technical content as we can for the full range of developers is what developers deserve. While we plan on having more live training sessions in the coming weeks and months, we are also committed to making that content available as quickly as possible to as many developers as possible. “
du launches “Smart Business Plan” for Windows Phone
With a Windows Phone, stay plugged in and productive wherever you are. Whether you need to manage email, juggle your calendar, draft client proposals or update sales spreadsheeta. You will have access to the information you need by using a Windows Phone. Du recently launched the “Smart Business Plan” for Windows Phone users.
Pay just AED 350 (Smart Business Plan bundled with Business Super Plan) monthly and enjoy more than AED 700 as value back every month through our included national and international minutes bundle, unlimited data and more.
Mobile App Match – Windows Phone Marketplace for the people who loves apps!
Mobile App Match is bringing the people who build Windows phone apps together with the people who seek them for personal use. You can start conversations, exchange ideas, and see how that idea develops. Your activity will help guide starter ideas from first blush to finished products available on Windows Marketplace.
- Developer – If you’re a developer building apps for Windows phone, you could spend months on a project only to find out the idea’s taken. Or wake up to a concept that was never fun, smart, or sexy enough to begin with. Post apps and videos to get feedback and promote work, Vote on new ideas and finished apps and read seekers’ comments and learn their interests
- Seeker – If you’re seeking apps for your own Windows phone, you know what you want. An app you can really connect with. Not too buggy. With a nice interface. You can post ideas and videos to influence mobile app builders, Vote on new ideas and finished apps and connect with skilled builders and find their latest apps.
Microsoft to give every employee a Windows Phone 7 handset
At Microsoft Global Exchange conference, Microsoft announced that they will be giving employee a Windows Phone 7 handset at launch. Microsoft employees started tweeting after hearing this announcement at the conference. This will be a best possible move for Microsoft with 90,000+ employees promoting their product. That’s Huge!
According to an internal email from Andy Lees, Microsoft’s Senior VP of mobile stuff “With all the buzz, a lot of you are asking how you can get your hands on a phone and get more involved. So, I am thrilled to announce that a new Windows Phone 7 will be made available to every Microsoft employee as we launch in each market around the world. The process will vary based on your market, your carrier, and your launch date so stay tuned for more information closer to launch.”
Want to design awesome looking Windows Phone 7 apps? Here are the Design Templates!
A collection of 28 layered Photoshop template files (download) that can be used to create pixel-perfect application layouts, to help guide UI development, or to pitch an idea. These design templates showcase many controls that are a part of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta.
They also include examples of controls that are a part of Windows Phone, but are not available as a part of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. These additional templates are included to help designers and developers maintain a consistent look and feel across applications for system controls that developers wish to mimic. Templates in the download:
Windows Phone 7 hits Technical Preview
Microsoft recently began shipping out thousands of Windows Phone 7 test units from LG and Samsung to developers all over the world. This was after the Windows Phone engineering team has hit a very meaningful milestone; one that they are calling technical preview. According to the Windows Phone team “Before release of this milestone, the software has undergone extensive testing – in daily use by more than 1000 people at Microsoft who have been using WP7 as their only phone for the past several months, and the more than 10,000 devices in our test labs. We’ve been testing usability, battery life, network connectivity, and many other metrics for a long time. As a result of that work, I hope you will find the experience to be of surprisingly high quality.”
Windows Phone 7 seeks to step away the barriers between you and your information, almost from the very first click. One of the very first screens you will see on startup is one asking you to sign in with a Windows Live ID. This connects your phone with your Windows Live and/or Hotmail e-mail account, calendaring, SkyDrive cloud storage, your Zune account, your Xbox Live gamertag and more. For now, many of the Windows Live benefits can only be realized if you are using the Windows Live Wave 4 services. Most of these services are still in beta, but should all be live by the time Windows Phone 7 ships.
Du announces new Windows business offering with launch of “Smart Business Plan”
As part of its efforts to transform business communications solutions in the UAE, Du announced the launch of its innovative new ‘Smart Business Plan’, a business mobile plan which brings the latest Windows handsets with bundled benefits including unlimited internet and email.
“Data has become a vital ingredient for the running of any business, and with today’s increasingly mobile lifestyle, professionals need to be provided with more flexibility and accessibility of data even on the move. Therefore, we are pleased to introduce to our business customers the latest ‘Smart Business Plan’, which provides the benefits of unlimited internet and email, freedom to call anywhere in the world, and the latest windows phones, along with all the benefits of Business Super Plan and Premier Plan,” commented Farid Faraidooni, Chief Commercial Officer, du.
Microsoft announces Windows Phone Live
Recently at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010, Microsoft announced the Windows Phone Live service that will be available for Windows Phone 7 devices. Senior Vice President of Mobile Communications Business, Andy Lees revealed the new service which will be a “companion site” for Windows Phone 7 users that’s essentially an online hub for their personal content.
Windows Phone Live will offer over 25 GB of Skydrive storage, and give users a central place to see pictures they’ve published, view their Windows Live calendar and contacts, exchange OneNote files and access other information shared between the phone and the Web.
Microsoft giving away Free Windows Phone to Developers for testing purposes
Microsoft is putting alot of efforts to make a mark in the mobile world. Windows Phone 7 which debut at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year is the Microsoft take in this domain. According to Steve Ballmer “On the phone side we missed a generation with Windows Mobile. We really did miss almost a release cycle, but Windows Phone 7 which we had a chance to debut at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year has received really quite remarkable reviews.”
Windows Phone Developer Tools for developers is now available for download. Moreover, if you want to learn about Windows Phone development, then download the Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers. Developers looking to get their hands on a pre-production phone for testing purposes, you can send an email to wp7req@microsoft.com with the following information:
- Your name
- Company name, if applicable
- What city/state/country you are located in
- App(s) you plan on developing (category and brief description)
Want to learn about Windows Phone development? Download the Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers
With the Beta relased of Windows Phone Developer Tools, Microsoft also launched the updated version of Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers. This Windows Phone 7 Training Kit will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.
Windows Phone 7 promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications.
Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta Released!
Today, Microsoft released the beta version of Windows Phone Developer Tools for developers. The same powerful and easy to use Visual Studio integrated developer environment (IDE) handles design and testing of Windows Phone 7 phone applications. This Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Tools is compatible with the final version of Visual Studio 2010.
The Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta includes the following
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Beta
- Windows Phone Emulator Beta
- Silverlight for Windows Phone Beta
- Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows Phone Beta
- XNA Game Studio 4.0 Beta
Meet Saleh Nabeel Alsaffar – MSP from Kuwait University
Tell us who you are?
Howdy, I’m Saleh Nabeel Alsaffar from Kuwait and I’m a student at the Computer Engineering Department of Kuwait University. I should be graduated by the time this interview is published. I’ve been an MSP at Kuwait University for 2 years now and I love programming and developing applications. Actually, it is one of my hobbies since I was a kid.
Tell us about your University?
Kuwait University was founded on 1966 and consist of several colleges, one of them is the College of Engineering and Petroleum (established by 1974) which is the one I’m admitted to. The college compromised of seven departments which are: Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Management Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, and Architecture. All those seven departments are accredited by ABET.
Tell us about your MSP history, when were you awarded?
Joined the MSP program when I got invited by Microsoft and Dr. Thalaya Alfozan to the MSP Boot Camp in Dubai on 21st November 2008. It is there where I realized the awesomeness of the MSP role for students and the opportunity for me to be in touch with Microsoft and my fellow colleagues.
Bing App for Windows Mobile 6.x Released!
Today, Microsoft released the Bing mobile app for Windows Mobile 6.x devices. With the help of this app you can quickly search for local businesses, get maps and directions, see latest traffic conditions, and even find local movie showtimes, wherever you are. Download it now for your Windows Mobile 6, 6.1, or 6.5 device.
Right now, the supported operating systems are Windows Mobile 6, Windows Mobile 6 Professional, Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional and Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard. Now all you have to do is download the app to your computer, connect your phone and transfer this CAB file to your device using ActiveSync or a file transfer program.
Microsoft Kin is no more!
Microsoft released in a press statement today saying that “We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones.”
According to Engadget ” Roz Ho – the exec who masterminded Kin under the codename “Pink” following Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger — will “oversee” her team’s move over to Windows Phone 7 before taking a to-be-determined role elsewhere in the company. For what it’s worth, we didn’t think much of the Kin when we reviewed it — to be fair, we’re not the product’s target demographic, but it certainly seems as though the phones got no love from the tweens, teens, and twentysomethings it sought to win over, either.”
[Concept] TwitFeed – Twitter App for Windows Phone 7
I got great feedback for my Weather App Concept for Windows Phone 7, so today i am posting another concept app “TwitFeed“, a Twitter App for Windows Phone 7. With the help of this app you can discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world. Simple to use, easy to understand.
Metro display for replies, tweets, direct messages, mentions & much more. Follow, un-follow and block Twitter users easily etc. So, If you liked this app, then do write a review and vote for us.
