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I believe this is the biggest mobile technology news since announcement of Apple iPhone back in 2007. And to be honest, I am all excited as one Apple fanboy would have, on such big news! There are reasons why I am so much excited, but first let me start with the fact that many developers showing concern that Nokia made a mistake for selecting Microsoft Windows Phone 7 as it’s …
Yes, thats true. 2GB of free space from Adobe. Plus an online version of Photoshop to fix / enhance your photos. Update: New screenshot So far it feels like a great service. On some blogs I read an impression maybe its too late for such service where there are already number of other services with similar features. Well, I think coming late in scene have its disadvantages, but the biggest benefit …
I watched the keynote live from visitmix.com, and was thrilled to see great demonstrations done with Silverlight 2.0. I was just waiting for the mobile part of the Silverlight. There were two demos of Silverlight Mobile, one on a Windows Mobile 6 device, and other was on Nokia N95 8GB. Both applications looked great. The on-demand stream of the keynote is now available, you can watch the entire keynote, or …
WOW, Nokia and Microsoft getting together to put Silverlight on Nokia devices. This includes Nokia S60, S40 and Tablet (Maemo) devices. Thats really cool! Nokia’s official press release is here. Here are some notable excerpts from deferent sources: The expectation is that Silverlight will be embedded on new Nokia devices and downloadable to those already in the market. ^ view source At MIX, Nokia will demonstrate Silverlight applications on its Series …
Microsoft has recently been quite active with big announcements, updates to developer tools and Windows OS. On Monday, MS announced they will give away VS, Expression and Windows Server absolutely FREE to students worldwide. Read more here, and here. Very impressive move to get crowd stick to MS, seems quite workable idea :) Adobe also recently made available Adobe Flex Builder free to students. MS following the same idea making it …
I have been keeping my eyes open for latest developments on Silverlight and AIR. I just read Daniel’s post about AIR is not a competitor to Silverlight, well that’s correct. Also, Flex is not a direct competitor as well. Its just about client runtimes, Flash and Silverlight, which actually renders content in browser and provide APIs to developers to create interactive experiences. AIR can run Flash and AJAX based applications …
Finally Microsoft released Silverlight v1.0 to masses. Before 5 Sep 2007, only developers were using it. it had 0% penetration on Internet connected systems. Lets see how it goes. Also, there is new update of Silverlight 1.1 alpha. I’m really excited about this new technology. As i love to R&D, i will surely give it a try. i already have some ideas where to use it ;) // chall3ng3r //
I noticed this nice comparison, where Silverlight is actually compared with its correct counterpart, the Flash Player, rather than Flex. http://shoutat.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-silverlight-vs.html I don’t call it that accurate as it misinforms about some features of Flash, but it worth a look. don’t forget to read my comments over there, and post yours if you like :) // chall3ng3r //
Microsoft is improving Silverlight in every new release. the new thing i noticed from many others, is a better version information for currently installed Silverlight runtime through right-click context menu. It shows complete version info including build numbers. User can also set Silverlight Update options under the Updates tab. Adobe Flash only shows major version number when you right-click on Flash content. When you click About Flash Player 9, it opens new …