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Microsoft acknowledged on Friday that it used an inaccurate number to represent research company IDC’s sales forecast for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. During a presentation at the ReMix conference in Paris this week, Microsoft showed a slide that said IDC had forecast 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices would be sold by the […]

The minds at Microsoft threw the beta off Tag, an innovative mobile phone barcode-scanning service that holds nearly limitless possibilities when it comes to . . . just about anything. Imagine touring a museum and scanning a symbol next to a painting to launch a related video. Or zapping a code at a bus stop […]

Microsoft shook things up this week with some high-profile departures, and a reorganization of the Entertainment and Devices division that has CEO Steve Ballmer directly controlling the future of Microsoft’s consumer technologies. When it comes to smartphones, Windows Phone 7 should arguably be the de facto platform for business professionals, but Microsoft may be delivering […]

Introduction I had to extend the Infragistics Controls with added functionality and ease of use. And one of the primary goals I had to achieve was to abstract out the “Infragistics” touch from the controls. So as to look like an independent control. One of the most widely used controls of Infragistics, the “XamDataGrid” was […]

The three companies received letters Wednesday from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, which oversees data protection issues in the E.U. Since 2008 the working party has pressured search companies to retain highly detailed search records for no longer than six months. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all agreed to modify how long they store […]

Endorsements by Apple and Google for the as-yet-unfinished HTML5 have turned this next iteration of the web’s mark-up spec into the buzzword of the moment, and according to blog post from Javascript specialist Ext JS, it is becoming “unhinged from reality”. People are confusing – deliberately or inadvertently – the core spec with a family […]

Over the past few months, starting with Brad Smith’s (Senior Vice President and General Counsel ) January speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., there has been a lot of talk about the great potential for Microsoft Azure cloud computing to increase the efficiency and productivity of governments, businesses and individual consumers. To realize […]

What is FakeGPS Microsoft has introduced a new tool named FakeGPS for Windows Mobile application developers and testers. Testing GPS application was difficult in earlier mobile SDK versions as a GPS receiver doesn’t work within closed walls, also the Emulators didn’t have any GPS simulated testing tool built in. Using FakeGPS, developers and testers can […]

Why not use the same approach it used to put Windows on a Mac to help ease the move from XP to Windows 7? They thought. The solution was elegant, helping users both make the move and even run older programs that weren’t compatible with the new version of Windows. At first, the signs from […]

Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices division, will retire later this year after 22 years at Microsoft. He won’t be replaced. Instead, the heads of the mobile communications business and the interactive entertainment business – both parts of the division – will report directly to Ballmer starting July 1. The division is responsible […]

No war is without causalities, and the heated battle for ground in the mobile space is no exception. Confirming reports of a forthcoming shakeup, Microsoft announced today the departure of two of high-level leaders of its Entertainment and Devices division, a move that grants CEO Steve Ballmer more direct control over the course of the […]

Last week’s article, Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API (Part 1), was the first in a multi-part article series exploring how to add store locator-type functionality to your ASP.NET website using the free Google Maps API. Part 1 started with an examination of the database used to power the store locator, […]