Microsoft Research must love Windows Phone because they sure do love creating free apps for us. The newest one? Engkoo which is a free dictionary and translator built on new Microsoft research technology. ‘Engkoo is a technology for exploring and learning language, now powering the Bing Dictionary product in China. It is built primarily by […]
Apps, NewsMicrosoft Research has updated their TouchStudio App on the WP7 Marketplace! now we get access to things like the accelerometer, location, maps, translation services, web search, tile customization, charting, and more. This completely free app is a lot of fun and for developers it has been a cool new tool to help the develop for […]
Apps, NewsMicrosoft put out a very interesting article yesterday on how the Windows Phone’s virtual (soft) keyboard came to be. I for one was very hesitant in purchasing my HD7 at launch since it had no physical keyboard. I used other ‘all screen’ devices before and they just felt so alien to me. When I first […]
NewsMicrosoft Research does it again! They just launched another coding based app to the Marketplace. I would call this one the best so far as TouchStudio is a software development enviroment that runs on your actual phone. You have access to the Media library, sensors, etc. An App that Makes Apps… You can’t get any […]
AppsMicrosoft has made available more toolkits to help you get your Windows Phone 7 apps going. The Microsoft Research team has released their toolkit codenamed project Hawaii: This is a software-development kit (SDK) for the creation of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) applications that leverage research services not yet available to the general public. The primary […]
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