Windows Phone 7 is simply incredible. Microsoft demoed the complete development environment at MIX’10 which is actually the same technologies with a few tools added to support mobile development. If you missed the keynote then you can watch the recording here.
Today at MIX 2010, Microsoft rolled out Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Tools CTP. To get started with these developer tools, Channel 9 just got updated with a Windows Phone 7 Series Training course. The course offers an idea of Windows Phone 7 Series development for beginners.
Today at Mix 2010, Microsoft rolled out the developer tools for Windows Phone 7 Series. The CTP of these developers tools work with Visual Studio 2010 RC and allows you to build apps for Windows Phone 7 Series.
The Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Tools CTP includes the following:
Today, Microsoft will kick off sessions and keynotes about Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Windows Azure and other designer and developer tools at MIX 2010. Keynotes will be live streamed on 15th and 16th March 2010 on 9:00 AM P.D.T(click here to see time for your region).

Microsoft MIX is an annual conference for web designers and developers. Keynotes from Bill Buxton, Scott Guthrie, Dean Hachamovitch, Joe Belfiore will be streamed live.
You might have guessed it by now. This app will make it possible for you to rotate the icons on your iPhone or iPod touch’s main screen (SpringBoard) just like you rotate any other item on the screen like the app screen or the movie you’re watching or photos.
This is happening. Believe it or not. Novell is going to release a new technology that will enable almost all of the Xbox 360 games to be ported on the iPhone and iPod touch. Now this is simply amazing. The great Xbox 360 gaming experience on your iPhone!
Keeping a check at the effective working hours of your employees is key to increase productivity an
d bring discipline to your business. Usually, the desktop based employee time tracking solutions are either too complex or lack user friendliness. Clockspot is trying to bridge that gap by providing really easy to use but yet powerful online tool to track time of your employees.
2 years ago, Microsoft and Nokia announced that the Symbian OS will get Silverlight support. 2 days ago, Microsoft made the Silverlight for Symbian beta with developer tools live but was made unavailable later. It is expected that now the beta will get released in the Mix Web Conference.
Well, Ballmer may not like it as was the case when a Microsoft employee last year tried taking Ballmer’s photos at a conference where he snatched the iPhone, threw it on the ground and pretended jumping on it. These scenes seem to be common at Redmond. So
Mr. Ballmer, when you cannot even convince your own employees to adopt Windows Phone then how will you court millions out there?
People said it’s just another enlarged version of iPod touch but Apple fans have proved them wrong. Google’s Nexus One sold only 20,000 devices in it’s release week and reports are that iPad has already sold 90,000 devices in just 6 hours! This is really impressive.
Guys at Engadget got an opportunity to see some of the games running on ASUS Windows Phone 7 prototype and built with XNA Game Studio 4.0. Microsoft didn’t let them take any photo or video. Although Microsoft gave them some of the screenshots of the 2 upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series Games.
iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 is out now for the new iPad developers (you need to be enrolled) which fixes some bugs including the Bookmark feature in Safari in the iPad simulator but something that comes as a surprise is the deliberate removal of the Camera Tab from the Photos app that will be shipped with iPad.
Google is catching up but it’s strategy is a little different. It is targeting small businesses and enterprises instead of end users. Over 2 million businesses are now using Google
Apps and now they’ve also launched Google Apps marketplace to share the wealth with third party developers.
Another day, another leak. This time it’s a direct hit on the yet-to-be-shipped iPad which has no Flash support. But HP did not hit iPad directly as there is no explicit mention of Apple or iPad but we all know what it means when HP demos Flash running on it’s slate. As it is powered by Windows 7, HP Sate has support for all Windows software including Flash.
Here’s the new HP Slate video:
There is no mention of pricing or exact feature details or release date so I guess they’re waiting to see the response of iPad before releasing their own pad.
If you cannot wait for MIX10 which kicks off from 15th March 2010 and want to catch a glimpse of developing applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform then this video will come as a teaser to you.

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