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Sascha Corti  //  Developer Evangelist working for Microsoft Switzerland. Focusing on WPF, Silverlight, Surface and mobile technologies. Passionate MMORPG gamer, with a life.

Feb 17 / 9:45am

The buzz is on! - Windows Phone 7 Series Information Center - #WP7

Here are a collection of higher resolution screenshots that Microsoft have released.

Windows Phone 7 Home

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Windows Phone 7 People

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Windows Phone 7 Games

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Windows Phone 7 Music

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Windows Phone 7 Pictures

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Windows Phone 7 Me

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Windows Phone 7 Search

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I love the buzz, Windows Phone 7 series is generating! Already there is an independent site "Windows Phone 7 Series Information Center" that is constantly updating on the new platform - including some spectacular rumors :)

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Feb 12 / 11:02am

WinMoSquare: Foursquare client for Windows Mobile now in Beta (via artificial ignorance)

The app is only available for touch screen Windows phones today. The .NET Compact Framework v3.5 is a pre-requisite for you to be able to run the application on the phone. You’d also need a phone that runs either Windows Mobile 6.1 or a Windows Mobile 6.5.

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Feb 3 / 9:19am

Swiss Researches make Robots evolve to learn cooperation, hunting. (CNET). So beware of hunters on your next trip here!

A predator robot, right, faces a prey robot, left.

(Credit: Dario Floreano & Laurent Keller)

 

If robots are allowed to evolve through natural selection, they will develop adaptive abilities to hunt prey, cooperate, and even help one another, according to Swiss researchers.

 

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Feb 3 / 8:31am

HTC HD2 - I finally found a stable ROM (1.55.405.2 (76641) WWE & Radio Stack (2.06.51.07) combo!

These have been running without a reboot for almost a week now including many phone calls made - where before I had to soft-reset the device almost daily.
An important part of the upgrade from what I learned from hte XDA-Developers forums is a factory reset after applying all the ROM updates and booting for the first time.
This entirely wipes the memory regions that were not affected by the ROM upgrade and that may still hold old, now invalid data.
Both the ROM and the Radio stack can be downloaded from HTC's support site at http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=297&act=sd&cat=all.
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Jan 28 / 1:36pm

HTC HD2 - ROM Upgrade (WWE:1.66.412.1). Installing now...!

ROM Upgrade for HTC HD2
Release Date: 2010-01-25     Category: ROM Upgrade

An updated ROM is now available for HTC HD2 users to download. As always, HTC is committed to providing customers with the best possible mobile experience.

Installation Instructions:

ROM Version:

Norway:1.66.409.1,Spain :1.66.412.1,Denmark:1.66.403.1,France :1.66.406.1,Sweden:1.66.413.2,Italy:1.66.408.1,WWE:1.66.405.2

This MUST fix my daily reboot problems... It simply has to!

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Jan 22 / 8:49am

Big news for Kindle owners – Amazon to release a Kindle SDK (via TeleRead)

According to a news release from Amazon, next month they will be releasing an SDK (software development kit) that will allow software developers to build and upload active content that will be available on the Kindle store later this year. The release states that Handmark is developing an active Zagat guide, Sonic Boom is building word games and puzzles and EA Mobile is porting some of its games.

An interesting idea to keep eBooks interesting in the current slate hype. I wonder how these apps will perform.

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Jan 15 / 5:30pm

Amazon Expands Kindle Digital Text Platform to Enable Authors and Publishers Worldwide to Publish English, German, and French Language Books in the Kindle Store

SEATTLE, Jan 15, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use the self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Until today, DTP was only available to authors and publishers based in the United States. Now, authors and publishers outside the United States can take advantage of this same opportunity and start offering their books to Kindle customers at http://dtp.amazon.com.

"We are excited to make the self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform available to authors and publishers around the world," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. "Now any content owner can offer English, German or French-language books to the fast-growing audience of Kindle owners around the globe."

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Jan 7 / 2:00pm

9.7" display Amazon Kindle DX now available globally, too.

Aaaah! I thought I had the perfect reading device with the 6'' Kindle. I didn't expect the larger device to become available globally so quickly as well...
For reading eBooks, the 6inch device is just fine. You turn the pages a little more often, but hey, who cares.

But when reading electronic magazines or especially (self made) PDF documents, the 6 inch device alsways tries to render the entire page, which is just too small on the 6incher.

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Jan 5 / 1:33pm

Improving the HTC HD2 stability: Turning off email push sync.

I cannot verify yet, but I just got the hot tip that turning off email push synchronization will greatly enhance the HTC HD2’s stability. This is a trade I am happy to make if the device finally stops freezing once every other day. Since the device launch in November 2009, I have installed every update from the HTC site, but this issue was never completely fixed.

 

In Active Sync on the device, go to the scheduling settings and select everything but “As new items arrive” from the drop-down box. Then open the Comm Manager either through SenseUI’s settings pane or through the settings folder in the Start Menu page in case you disabled Sense UI. “Microsoft Direct Push” should now automatically be off.

 

I will be testing this setting, hoping to get the hoped for results…

   
Click here to download:
Improving_the_HTC_HD2_stabilit.zip (1866 KB)

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Jan 3 / 4:06pm

Finding a spot for the "dozer" in Zurich: challenging. Lucky day today.

via tweetie
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