Like the PC’s domination over Macs in decades past, low-cost devices for the masses will win the global smartphone war. It won’t even be close. Most of the world population has to buy their device first, without the luxury of … Continue reading
Since 90% of the world’s population has mobile network coverage, lets take a look at how they’re using it, where they’re using it, and what we should expect from the future… Continue reading
The profound effects of the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) is blurring the lines between consumers and the enterprise. The fact that virtually every type of mobile device is now a candidate to make employees productive means that cross-platform, enabling technologies are … Continue reading
It should be no surprise that over 80% of enterprise handhelds shipped are running Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Handheld. Continue reading
Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve maintained in-memory collections of objects in … Continue reading
Our friends at Kleiner Perkins have some great insights into where things are going with the Mobile Internet: Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011) View more presentations from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
<what is the mobile web? /> It’s growing faster than the desktop web Faster growth than desktop web during 1990’s There’s been a 2000% increase in mobile websites since 2008 The mobile web is: The mobile web is not: The … Continue reading
Do you have a burning question related to Windows Phone? Are you unsure, confused or need more information? Do you have feedback you want to share? Whatever your motivation, this session is not to be missed. For one time only … Continue reading
A Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) allows corporate IT departments to support multiple mobile applications on a single platform. Gartner states that this market currently tops $1 billion, and forecasts that 95% of the world’s organizations will standardize on a … Continue reading
The Silverlight development environment has proven itself to be a rich, capable and adaptable runtime that has reached across platforms to support Windows, the Mac, the Web, Nokia and Windows Phone 7. Azure is Microsoft’s powerful cloud offering that brings compute, … Continue reading
In my last two articles, I showed you how to build WCF REST services using Visual Studio 2010 that can reside on-premise in Windows Server 2008 or in the Cloud in Windows Azure. Furthermore, I demonstrated pulling data from a … Continue reading
Five years after Ray Ozzie penned The Internet Services Disruption, he reflects on Microsoft’s move to the cloud. While he’s most proud of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, he also gives our competitors their due by mentioning that they have … Continue reading