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Monthly Archives: February 2012

The CNN phone app (Exclusively on Nokia devices for 90)

Official CNN App Now In Windows Phone Marketplace   The CNN App for Windows Phones will provide the latest news and video from CNN’s reporting around the globe. The panorama app will allow sections to be pinned to the home screen and offer a live tile for real-time news updates, and direct access to iReport,… Continue Reading

Nokia Connecting People (Creates free online banners to promote your Windows Phone apps)

Do you need banners to promote your app? Making banners is easy and the Nokia Online Marketing Tool does all the work for you. Simply provide the URL for your Windows Phone Marketplace app, and choose the message, visuals and the banner sizes you want. The Online Marketing Tool will make the banners for you… Continue Reading

Game on !! Microsoft Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference

Join us at Microsoft Developer Day at the Game  Developers Conference This is an opportunity for you to get exposure to the future of games and entertainment.  This event will consist of deep dives  focusing in Xbox Live and Windows 8.  You will learn about how you can build great experiences by capitalizing on Microsoft’s… Continue Reading

Entity Framework training

Entity Framework training  event is taking place in Spokane, WA on March 28! Here’s a summary from the registration site and the link to the registration site Essential Entity Framework Development Over the past 25 years developers all over the world have been faced with the challenges of integrating object-oriented and relational database designs. In… Continue Reading

Facebook has updated their app for windows phone 7

Facebook made some nice improvements to their Windows Phone 7 App that is really     Click here to check out the Facebook For Windows Phone Page Test out your groups. Visit your pages. Look at who likes your posts. Change the banner image. Check out the improved news feed performance. Use the new filters…. Continue Reading

Coming Soon Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Feb. 29!

Microsoft announced the availability on Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Feb. 29!   I am looking forward to download the Preview!

“[Your App Here]” Promotional Campaign from Windows Phone & Nokia

  Are you building an amazing new app right now? Want to get it out in front of a big audience? Windows Phone and Nokia are looking for innovative apps from targeted for Windows Phone 7.5. Selected apps will be showcased in our Windows Phone & Nokia ad campaigns including banner advertising, public relations outreach,… Continue Reading

Deliver the promise of the cloud with up to $3,700 of MSDN cloud benefits on Windows Azure

  Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate with MSDN subscriber, you get free access to Windows Azure each month, and up to $3,700.00 in annual Windows Azure benefits at no extra charge. Click HERE for more info or HERE to download the Windows Azure SDK

WP7 Uploading to Facebook

Over that last year and a half, I have been to may Window Phone events. From hack – a – thons, to Dev Camps, to Unleashed events and surprisingly , one of the most common tasks I get asked about is integrating Facebook into a Windows Phone 7 application.   So today I came across this… Continue Reading

Windows Phone Challenge

I’ve been working with the Windows Phone for a while and love how easy it is to get things done with it.  From productivity (Exchange, combined messaging) to the simple social things that I do.  At CES we paid people if they could beat us at simple tasks and were willing to give them $100… Continue Reading