The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Bloomberg Television Sees A Lot of Buzz for Windows Phone 7 Series
It’s good to see some buzz about Windows Phone 7 Series getting through to the mainstream media. In the following video, Nicholas Thompson, senior editor at Wired Magazine and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks with Bloomberg’s Betty Liu about Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 7 success as well as the potential success of Windows Phone 7 Series. Skip to 2:30 for the part about Windows Phones. Do you agree/hope that Windows Phone 7 Series will repeat …
Continue readingMusic Monday: The Community’s Favorite Metal Songs
Since Windows Phone 7 Series is going to have some excellent integration with the Zune service, we thought it would be fun to talk a little bit about some of our favorite music that you can easily sample for yourself in the free Zune desktop software. If you’re excited about Windows Phone 7 Series or even the rumored Pink Project phones, you’re probably going to want to check out the Zune services. Of course, Zune …
Continue readingProject Pink’s Pure Danger Phone Blurry Cam
It looks like Engadget and Gizmodo have found some more info and blurry cam pictures of the “Pure” phone said to be one of the results of Microsoft’s Danger aquisition. There are also a few screenshots on Engadget courtesy of Conflipper on Twitter. Also rumored: The UI is “hectic and colorful.” There’s still some serious cloud backup reliance, along with some desktop software to sync up with the cloud, and data plans that including a …
Continue readingZune HD Facebook App is Fixed (Video)
Yesterday, the Facebook application for the Zune HD was released. Unfortunately there was a bug that didn’t allow it to work properly for most people. That bug has quickly been fixed, and now we’re able to show you how the Facebook app actually works. It has most of the basic functions you’d expect in a Facebook app. There’s no Photo/Video upload, and you can’t tag photos from here, but there is one extremely cool new …
Continue reading7 Series Development Secrets
Charlie Kindel, the “Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience”, has a new blog about Windows Phone 7 Series Development. His first post details some of the strategies that went behind the Windows Phone 7 Series creation and developer story. A big part of the procedure was the Five P’s: Purpose, Principles, Priorities, Plan, People. Be sure to check out his article as it’s well worth a read. If …
Continue readingWhat if Tablet PCs Ran the Metro UI?
Taimur Asad of RedmondPie recently expressed his hope for a Metro UI add-on for Windows 7 Tablet PCs. As you know, the Metro UI is featured in the Windows Phone 7 Series devices as shown at Mobile World Congress. This user interface design was created to be completely touch friendly, while also being something totally different from the other touch UI’s out there. It’s already been implemented in the Zune HD and works very nicely. …
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