Windows Phone 8 and Some Developer Musings

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This past week, Microsoft finally began to lift the proverbial covers off of the next version of their Windows Phone operating system in Windows Phone 8.While the presentation around Windows Phone 8, made at Microsoft’s Windows Phone Summit event in San Francisco, was anticipated by a number of audiences, the majority of the messages made [...]

June SHOULD Be A Month of Answers For Windows Phone

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This month marks a special time for Microsoft with regards to Windows Phone. There are two events slated for June that will provide an excellent stage for Microsoft to answer some frequently-asked questions around the next release of Windows Phone (for now, we will stick with “Windows Phone 8″ here, but even the branding is [...]

Microsoft Opens Windows Phone Summit Registration… Sort Of

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Back in May, Microsoft announced The Windows Phone Developer Summit for June. Originally scheduled as a multi-day event, the summit has now been reduced to a single day – June 20th. Some other notable changes around the event include – The event name has dropped the “Developer” reference.  This could be due in part to [...]

Aviary Brings Photo Editing SDK to Windows Phone

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While one of the most common uses of mobile phones today is photo-taking, most applications that leverage a camera typically work from a “take-it-and-send-it” perspective. For those of us who are “photographically-challenged”, be it due to insufficient or poor photography skills (count me into the latter category), adding photo editing into an application workflow would [...]