Microsoft released details on it’s new phone operating system on Monday October 11, 2010. What does this mean to the cell phone consumer? If one was to base one’s assumptions past versions you may just yawn and keep deciding between which droid you want or if you want to get the iPhone 4. Most people [...]
Windows Phone 7 – Worth The Hype?
October 12, 2010 // by admin
Sidekicks Losing Data
October 14, 2009 // by admin
Wiredprnews.com reports, “T-Mobile Sidekick users may have lost all contact and other personal information stored in their phones.” It seems due to a server failure, T-Mobile’s servers, which is operated by Microsoft, wiped all the data on the servers. While this happened many users thought it may be a phone issue and took out their [...]
Surprise!!! Internet Explorer Get teh Hack
March 21, 2009 // by admin
Andrea James reported on blog.seattlepi.com: “A 25-year-old German graduate student who goes only by Nils has hacked Internet Explorer 8, along with Safari and Firefox, at CanSecWest’s hacking competition. CanSecWest is a security conference that is being held at the Sheraton Wall Centre hotel in downtown Vancouver, B.C. Microsoft is one of 16 listed sponsors. [...]
RIA Updates 3-9-2009
March 13, 2009 // by admin
David Tucker Lists updates for RIA. “This week the Flex SDK gets some bug fixes, iLog releases a new set of visualization components, the new version of jQuery UI was released, Microsoft provides some guidance on Silverlight development, and a talk on the future of Rich Internet Applications. All this and more on the Weekly [...]
Making a Decision: Flex vs. Silverlight
March 1, 2009 // by admin
Researching the subject is difficult. Most users of either are rather biased one way or the other. My best suggestion is try them both out and decide for yourself. If you don’t like this method, I have included some of the information I have found so you may be able to ease the pain of [...]
The Real Numbers behind Microsoft’s G4LI
February 21, 2009 // by admin
On October 7, 2008, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft Corp., announced plans for The Games for Learning Institute. G4LI Steven Feiner, Columbia University Mary Flanagan, Dartmouth Bruce Homer, City University of New York Katherine Isbister, Polytechnic University at New York University Charles Kinzer, Teacher’s College Colleen Macklin, Parsons Catherine Milne, New [...]