September 2010
8 posts
Zune going International
This week featured the announcement that Zune will be expanding it’s services beyond the United States, detailed in this press release released a couple of days ago are the details. For the UK this mean Zune Music on PC, Phone (Windows Phone 7) and the Xbox 360 with Zune Pass at £8.99 per month and Music and Video purchasing available. This is great news for the UK, but no unexpected as...
GameCardr and ZuneCardr for Windows Phone 7
GameCardr and ZuneCardr are my two main launch apps for Windows Phone 7 - both will be made available for free from the Windows Phone Marketplace (acceptance permitting). GameCardr reads the public Xbox LIVE Gamer Card information - this is the same as the Gamer Card you might embed in a blog - there is a more extensive private API but I don’t have access to that. It allows people to add any...
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools
Today marks the release of the final version of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools ready for launch, possibly as soon as next month here in the UK! You can download the tools via developer.windowsphone.com! These tools are free and include Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone and/or the Windows Phone 7 Tools for Visual Studio 2010, also there is Expression Blend for Windows Phone, plus...
Windows Phone 7 Manchester Event
Developer, Developer, Developer! Next month on Thursday 7th October will be a special Windows Phone 7 One Day event, details here. I’ll be attending as I’m trying to get to as many Windows Phone 7 related events as I can, and this is the same week as the London Cloud Development event, so should be interesting. I’ll hopefully have a completed version of GameCardr and ZuneCardr...
Windows Phone 7 announcement October 11th?
Seems like the rumours of a Windows Phone 7 event next month are getting more specific with a date of October 11th which is a week before I thought, and hopefully the event the previous week I’m attending will give more clues to any launch happening then! The launch event seems to be happening in New York and may be streamed worldwide much like the original Mobile World Congress initial...
twitter
I’ve been on twitter for a while and soon I’ll hit 1,000 tweets, there are many more people with more tweets than me, one statistic I’m a bit proud of is almost all of my tweets have been exactly 140 characters, which in the twitter world is called a “twoosh”. I always wonder if there is a record for these, but I’m not sure. Even when I live tweet an event such...
UK TechDays Special: The Future of Cloud...
I’ll be attending the UK TechDays Special: The Future of Cloud Development in London (invite code 6D4723) on October 5th. I’m hoping this event will be useful as cloud development is a major new area and look forward to seeing how this will unite Desktop, Web and Windows Phone 7 and learn more about cloud computing.
This is also an opportunity to see Steve Ballmer deliver a keynote...
cespage.com phone
This month was the soft-launch of cespage.com phone on September 1st. There will be a lot more content there in the coming weeks as the launch of Windows Phone 7 is only a matter of weeks away, will be adding information about devices and applications when available, also if you have an application or game on marketplace then maybe it will be featured just message @rogueplanetoid on Twitter,...