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The Internet’s abuzz today with news that Google is transitioning its employees away from Windows PCs, allegedly because of security issues. In its place, the buzz continues, employees will have their choice of either Mac or Linux systems. The question further posed by the buzz is whether Google’s (unofficially confirmed) decision was the direct result […]

It’s not Verizon that’s doing the cutting; it’s Best Buy. Best Buy is making the Kin 1 available for free and the Kin 2 for $50. (No ridiculous mail-in rebates required.) Verizon is still selling the phones for $50 and $100, respectively. Yes, the data plan for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile phones aimed at the teen/20-something […]

If you’re a developer interested in using an embedded form of Windows on small devices, Microsoft has just released a community technology preview (CTP) of Windows Embedded Compact 7 this week, aimed at specialized portable devices. Microsoft announced the CTP during a keynote speech by Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Original Equipment Manufacturer […]

Over the past two weeks I’ve showed how to build a store locator application using ASP.NET and the free Google Maps API and Google’s geocoding service. Part 1, Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using the Google Maps API looked at creating the database to record the store locations. This database contains a table named […]

Microsoft Azure CDN has 18 locations globally (United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America) and continues to expand. Microsoft Azure CDN caches your Microsoft Azure blobs at strategically placed locations to provide maximum bandwidth for delivering your content to users. You can enable CDN delivery for any storage account via the Windows Azure Developer […]

A year after Microsoft launched Bing, the product has returned some credibility to Microsoft in the search market, and appears to have prompted renewed innovation at Google. Microsoft took the wraps off the Bing search engine on May 28, 2009, letting it finally replace the far-from-beloved Microsoft Live Search Bing was seen as the firing […]

With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 the game changed. It was possible to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to create applications that ran on earlier versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework. This means that the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 creates a new question: Does it make sense to upgrade Microsoft Visual […]

Introduction Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column! When it comes to tips and tricks there are many items that can be considered. For this article we’ll briefly recap the C# 4.0 language features, cover some tips, tricks, and reminders, and touch on a couple of useful tools. C# 4.0 Overview […]

Introduction The .NET Framework Windows Form client is a great platform for offering a rich, interactive and responsive user interface. The rich interface of a WinForm client, properly constructed, can offer productivity benefits to the information worker far and above other standard architectures. There are many reasons for increased productivity but one reason comes from […]

After spending 30 minutes pitching Microsoft Azure cloud computing service to 100 corporate titans at Microsoft’s CEO Summit in Redmond last week, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said he still wasn’t successful at explaining what it was. Ballmer told a gathering of executives in Singapore on Wednesday, according to a transcript of his remarks: “It’s kind […]

That’s a pretty ambitious goal (to say the least). The first generation of Windows Phone 7 handsets won’t ship until the end of calendar 2010. And in the most recent quarter, Windows Mobile was down to 6.8 percent of the worldwide mobile operating system market, in terms of share. (Symbian still rules the roost with […]

The NVIDIA 3D vision technology has been in existence for a while now, but making a PC capable of taking advantage of it was mostly a DIY (do it yourself) process. This changed yesterday, when ASUS made the official introduction of its 3D gaming notebooks. With this as a start, NVIDIA is ready to expand […]