New phone operating system from microsoft for widows phone7 series

Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that its new phone operating system is as different under the hood as it is to the eye.

In a blog post and at an event with a handful of journalists, the software maker said that those developing software for Windows Phone 7 Series devices will do so using either Silverlight or XNA, the toolset used to create Xbox games.

The all-new look for Windows Phone 7 series isn't the only thing that's new. Developers will also use new tools--Silverlight and XNA--to write apps that work on the devices.

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"Overnight those developers have become Windows Phone developers," said Charlie Kindel, the Microsoft executive in charge of the mobile developer strategy. "One of our principles is to build on the shoulders of giants."

Microsoft announced its plans for the new phones and showed off the user interface at last month's Mobile World Congress. However, it had been mum on what it would take to write software for the phones although speculation had centered on Silverlight and XNA.

While the move brings the phone closer to Microsoft's Web and gaming efforts, it also marks a pretty distinct break with past versions of Windows Mobile.

"In some cases, some work can be done to get those apps to run, but it's fundamentally a different platform," said Todd Brix, another member of the Windows Phone team.

The company also confirmed that it has no current plans to allow any current Windows Mobile phones to run the new OS, which is due to start shipping on new devices by this year's holiday season.

That the new OS is such a complete break with past versions is a relatively new development in the multi-year history of its development. Roughly 18 months ago, a largely new team of engineers and executives came in as part of what one employee termed "a complete reset" of the project.

What resulted was a product that resembles the Zune HD far more than any past version of Windows Mobile. Also gone was the notion of allowing both hardware makers and carriers a great deal of flexibility in customizing the phone.

In part by design and in part a nod to its weakening market position, recent Windows Mobile devices often hid the look of the operating system under a "skin" designed by the phone maker. With the new OS, Microsoft will insist its interface be preserved.

Microsoft is also far stricter on what hardware will go in the phones, mandating not just the screen size and type but also what buttons can be included and insisting the phone have things like an FM radio and Wi-Fi. Hardware makers will have some choice but mainly around external things such as whether the phone includes a physical keyboard or not.

One of the reasons for limiting choice, Kindel said, is to ensure that developers that write software for Windows Phones can do so without having to do separate testing for each phone on the market.

Kindel said that developers had grown frustrated with the experience of writing software for phones using Microsoft's OS. "To ship my app, I have to test on 35 devices or I will get nothing but support calls," Kindel said was the message he heard from developers.

Microsoft didn't offer the full details on what developers will have to do to write for Windows Phone Series 7 devices, but has said those details will come at the Mix 10 trade show in Las Vegas later this month. There it will offer details on the programming tools as well as the app store that will be part of the phone.

Opera Beta 10.50 with Widgets Desktop for Windows

to exceed Chrome, Opera now create a new breakthrough for some serious Headway in keeping itself relevant when it introduced a new JavaScript engine for its upcoming revision. The latest edition of the Opera 10:50 beta 2 for Windows contains no major new features, some minor feature improvements, and is mostly a bug-fixing release that incorporates around 100 changes since the first beta.

Also, in an effort to prevent attention from drifting away from the Mac version of Opera 10.50, the publisher has also announced a new release candidate for the beta. While that milestone is unusual, it's not unheard of for browser publishers to do this. Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 beta 99 last summer, just prior to moving Firefox 3.5 beta 5 up to release candidate status.

Changes to the Windows version include what appears to be modest but detectable improvements to the new Carakan JavaScript engine. In tests limited because of time constraints, I scored the new Opera beta on the SunSpider JavaScript test. Over three runs, it averaged 386.4 milliseconds, compared to the 435.6 ms for the pre-alpha on the same computer. Opera 10.50 beta 1 scored just above 400 ms, albeit on a different computer. For comparison, today's update to the development version of Google Chrome averaged 416 ms over three runs on the SunSpider test on the same computer that Opera 10.50 beta 2 was tested on.

These tests are not absolutes, and even running the same test on the same browser will score differently depending on whether the browser is "warm" and in use or "cold" and freshly booted, but they do provide a snapshot that the new Opera engine is extremely competitive.

Other changes to Opera 10.50 beta 2 include a visual tweak for Windows XP users, moving the tabs on top for when the default Windows XP theme is used. Windows XP users who use "classic" mode won't see the change. An Opera Widgets panel has been added to the Opera user interface, and the RSS news reader and e-mail client have also received tweaks.

While there are still minor bugs in ancillary features that prevent it from being a stable release, the core browsing features feel well-integrated and smooth.

The Mac release includes multiple bug-fixes from the previous pre-alpha version, including improvements to Carakan, typing speed tweaks, fixing the context menu in the Speed Dial feature, and crash fixes.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 lands (May 23, 2010)

you've ga probably familiar with this one game,,, what else could it be the Super mario games .. we all expect of course expecting the final details on the Nintendo DSI XL at Wednesday morning's conference in San Francisco, but the gaming community was pleasantly surprised to learn about the release dates for titles in two of the company's most recognizable franchises.

The sequel to what's arguably the Wii's best games, Super Mario Galaxy 2, will arrive on store shelves in just three months on May 23. While The Game was first announced at last year's E3 2009 press conference, the sequel was mostly written off as a lock-in for the 2010 holidays.

We can not say we thought We'd see Metroid: Other M before the end of 2010 either, but sure enough the next Metroid game will launch June 27. Other M will be a departure from the recent trilogy of first-person Metroid games, instead serving up a hybrid of third and first-person action.

These two major announcements come after recent reports of developers abandoning the Wii for the PS3 and other third-party developers' distaste with the console's online offering. It's no secret the Wii has suffered from a lack of quality releases as of late, so we're imagining this PR move is designed to quiet the crowds. Of course, now we're even more anxious to hear about the company's holiday lineup that will probably be announced at the E3 2010 expo in a few months. Rumors have already begun to swirl about a new title in the Zelda franchise.

Google Maps 2010 (Hybrid Maps Downloader 6.95)

Google Maps (Interactive Online Map) function to collect a lot of maps and geographic data view with a basis for creating large and very detailed review you can zoom, rotate, and manipulate .. Allallsoft's Google Hybrid Maps Downloader is an interesting utility that automatically downloads the Google Maps' hybrid tile images and combines them into custom, high-precision, hybrid interactive maps. It uses multithreaded technology to download large files quickly geographical data, and it saves files to your hard drive or other destination so you can use them right away or save them and easily access them again.

This program has a simple, efficient interface that requires basic knowledge of map coordinates to use but that also includes a Help file for those who need a Refresher. You simply enter the coordinates defining the area you want to map, which are easy to obtain from Google Maps or any online or print atlas. Select Zoom and Thread Count levels, press Download, and Google Hybrid Maps Downloader automatically fetches and assembles the parts into a custom high-precision hybrid map view. It does not download to normal, terrain, or satellite maps; for those you'll need one of Allallsoft's related tools.

Google Hybrid Maps Downloader's free trial version limits the zoom function to a maximum level of 13. The maximum zoom level is 19 for the full version, but most areas have a limit of 18 anyway, which is a street-level view that has more than enough detail to find your way around. It's compatible with Windows 7.

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Twitter firehose in turn by yahoo

You know the birds twitter ????.. that bird now been used by Yahoo to find customers,,,

Yahoo has agreed to purchase access to the Twitter firehose, adding real-time Twitter content to both search results and Yahoo profiles. The company has been featuring Twitter content in search results for some time but plans to augment those results now that it will receive content directly from Twitter rather than having to pull it from the service through public APIs, said Jim Stoneham, Vice President of communities at Yahoo.

Google and Microsoft announced similar plans months ago at the Web 2.0 conference. Yahoo will continue to integrate Twitter into the box content places it above the trendy search terms such as "Obama" or "Olympics," but with the deal, Yahoo will be able to integrate much more content, Stoneham said.

Yahoo users will also be able to view their Twitter feeds and post to the service directly from the Yahoo accounts, similar to the Yahoo announced plans to let Facebook users update their profiles from their Yahoo accounts. The search results should start Appearing Wednesday, but it will take longer for Yahoo and Twitter to integrate their data in order to integrate the streams from the two sites.

The battle is on to see if search engines can analyze, rank, and display real-time data from services like Twitter in a relevant way. It's early days so far, but this could be the next Battleground in the search market now that everyone is trying to augment search results with structured data.

For Yahoo, it's also an attempt to blunt the amount of time users spend on competing sites like Facebook by giving those users a way to integrate social-networking their lives into their Yahoo e-mail and instant-messaging lives. "It's a continuation of our drive to make Yahoo the one place to be," Stoneham said.

Financial terms of the deal with Twitter were not disclosed. Yahoo said it negotiated its own deal with Twitter - rather than simply allowing Microsoft to integrate real-time search results under their partnership - because content deals signed by either party before regulators approved the deal search would not automatically transfer over. Also, Yahoo's deal is a bit more expansive than Microsoft's since it is enabled Twitter users to link their Twitter accounts with their Yahoo accounts.

LINKIN PARK Will Release The Fourth Album In Early 2010

Linkin Park New Album 2010 - In the midst of involvement in the recent Transformers movie is Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and some angotanya busy with solo projects. Linkin Park works hard to manufacture their fourth album, which probably came out in 2010. Actually, the fourth album will be released this year, due to busy with Chester Bennington Dead By Sunrise is the release plan was postponed until probably early 2010. Title and producers could not be confirmed for Linkin Park's fourth album is. But Linkin Park has just been menberikan the fans' New Divide "which is the soundtrack for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.
According to Mike Shinoda notice to Billboard.com about the album, the fourth LP, they have a lot of writing material for their fourth album and a half has been completed, but he could not vouch for every day of the personnel and menuangka gather ideas and assess to improve or make reforms of materials Linkin Park's fourth album later.

Shinoda said that Linkin Park will provide the color change of the music from their album in 2007 "Minutes to Midnight" except for an interesting transition for the album "Minutes to Midnight", as Chester Bennington solo project with Dead By Sunrise. The fourth album will not be like the albums before like Linkin Park "Hybrid Theory" and "Minutes to Midnight" but this fourth album will be perceived not merely as a rock album, but Linkin Park will also experiment with other approaches.

He acknowledged that elements of rap not so much on the album "Minutes to Midnight" will be more pronounced during this fourth album. Shinoda said he has written material for an album he plans to take some people "Fort Minor (Mike rap side project)" and dumped into the LP album. "I want to record sounds different, so you'll hear more rapping on this album, Linkin Park.

Amazon and Microsoft sign patent deal

Microsoft on Monday announced a cross licensing deal with Amazon. As part of the Pact, Amazon will pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money, though the two sides did not disclose more details.

The deal covers both Amazon's Kindle product as well as the company's use of Linux-based servers. Microsoft has maintained that many implementations of Linux infringe on its patents and has signed numerous licensing deals that cover Linux with both companies that sell Linux-based software and those that use the operating system in their hardware.

Microsoft, which started an intellectual property licensing push in late 2003, has deals with scores of companies ranging from Novell to Samsung and Fuji Xerox.

"We are pleased to have entered into this patent license agreement with Amazon.com," Microsoft deputy general counsel Horacio Gutiérrez said in a statement. "Microsoft's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry, and this agreement demonstrates our mutual respect for intellectual property as well as our ability to reach pragmatic solutions to IP issues regardless of whether proprietary or open source software is involved."