I’m sitting in big hall listening to overview on Samsung Bada operating system for developers. Bada (Ocean in Korean) is Samsung try on making “Simple” standard mobile phones to a “Smartphone” by opening their proprietary operating system to the developers eco-system. ...

This post is based on the on going buzz in the net about the capabilities of Windows Mobile 7 due this year 1. First nothing is official, wait for next Monday (Feb 15th) for the official announcement. 2. Multitasking – Still exist but this time no one can create a busy wait loop and kill the device battery in 30min (happened to me couple of times with some applications), Making software more stable and better suitable for mobile device is good at my book. 3. Flash – Why I need to ask ? first of all...

PDC09 – Day 1 Summery Last night I come back to the hotel from the convention center around 19:00 and waited for the Israeli delegation dinner to start at 21:00, without understanding how I woke up at 7:00 the next day and missed a hell out amazing steak dinner leaded by Guy B from Microsoft IL. I got 3 posts waiting for final editing that I may release today on DirectX 11 Direct2D, SQL Server Spatial Data Types and .Net Micro Framework (Amazing Staff) so stay tuned. I’m going to have a session on...

PDC09 – Day 1 – Keynotes with Ray Ozzie & Bob Muglia – Live blogging I'm sitting on the 8th row in the center in-front of the stage with 3 other coworkers from Sela waiting for Ray Ozzie to come up and started talking about S+S and the flow of changes that come since talking about Windows Azure and Office Online / Services . View Full Album The main topic for today keynote is cloud computing and the connection of multi platforms like Desktop/Netbook/Phone/TV to the cloud and its services...

Over the year we collect a lot of contacts data, From business cards in meetings, in-coming phone calls and even the highly sophisticated piece of paper or restaurant napkin. I guess most of you don’t have their address books organised in this way and switching a large address book to this format can and is a big pain in the a.. But from personal experience the pain worth it when looking at the gain. When I first done the switch it took me couple of hours for ~1200 contacts. ...

Hello! In this post I would like to talk about Search Server Express 2008 and integration of this great free product with other products. Search server express edition have a built-in providers for indexing many different types of sources such as file system, exchange public folders and, of course, full integration with WSS and indexing the most types of office documents. But what we have to do in situation where in our company we have some products which hold a lot of information and we want to...

A bunch of interesting/inspiring topics for the weekend… Designing “Big Data” Jeff Veen from Small Batch Inc. gave a 20-minutes talk at the Web2.0 Expo at San Francisco. During the talk he focuses on some classic examples for information visualization...

Stephen Elop, the president of Microsoft's Business Division recently held a presentation where he allowed the viewers to glimpse 10 years into the future. The cool stuff are starting around 14:30.

What is AutoCollage ? Photo collages celebrate important events and themes in our lives. Pick a folder, press a button, and in a few minutes AutoCollage presents you with a unique memento to print or email to your family and friends. v1.1 Released! Cambridge Innovation Development is proud to make available AutoCollage version 1.1, which includes several enhancements based on customer’s feature requests, including selection of the top ranked image, removal of images, rich Windows Live Photo Gallery...

Originally published on Cloud Avenue. About a month ago, Microsoft rolled out its previously announced 3rd wave of Windows Live Services refresh. The purpose of the release was to position the Live Services as the central hub for everything you do online...