Wi-Fi

Reduce Business Risk by Protecting Corporate Assets and IP from BYOD Employees

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Book Cover

Send “Bring your own Device” BYOD #mobile employees to the Internet via a separate Wi-Fi network versus giving them direct access to internal servers.

Get the DragonBoard Running Windows 10 IoT Core

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Dragon Board 410c

The DragonBoard 410c from Qualcomm is available and now it’s time to get it up and running with Windows 10 #IoT Core and Universal Windows Platform apps.

Windows Phone 8.1 is Here

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Windows Phone 8.1

For users of the Nokia Lumia 1520 on AT&T, the Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1 mobile operating system update is available for immediate download. The smartphone built from the ground-up to address the security and management needs of every enterprise has arrived.  Some of you developers and early adopters running the developer preview may need to use the Nokia Software Recovery Tool to … Read more Windows Phone 8.1 is Here

Delta Flight Attendants are now using Windows Phones

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Delta App

Starting today, more than 19,000 Delta Air Lines flight attendants will be using new Windows Phone 8 devices from Nokia to facilitate on-board purchasing to improve their customer experience. I was thrilled to be a part of this effort from the Microsoft side while working jointly with AT&T and Avanade to help Delta flight attendants … Read more Delta Flight Attendants are now using Windows Phones

Windows Phone 8 and the Enterprise Feature Pack

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I’m pleased to announce that we are enhancing the business capabilities of Windows Phone 8 with the Enterprise Feature Pack. Building on technologies like Secure UEFI Boot, BitLocker, and TPM, an update to Windows Phone 8 will arrive in the first half of calendar year 2014 that increases IT control while boosting employee productivity.  The Enterprise Feature … Read more Windows Phone 8 and the Enterprise Feature Pack

Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness

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Phone 6

By now, you’ve heard me talk a lot about the role wireless data networks play when it comes to the success of your mobile application. They are unreliable, intermittent, highly latent and often slower than they should be due to overtaxed cellular towers and congested backhaul networks.  Hopefully, you’ve built an app that tackles those … Read more Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Network Awareness

Ray Ozzie sees the Dawn of a New Day for Microsoft

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Ray Ozzie

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 out-executed us when it comes to mobile experiences.  He harps on the subject of how … Read more Ray Ozzie sees the Dawn of a New Day for Microsoft

Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Moving your WCF REST + JSON Service to Windows Azure

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Ever since my last blog post where I demonstrated how to create lightweight WCF REST + JSON services for consumption by Windows Phone 7, I’ve received many requests from folks wanting to know how to do the same thing from Windows Azure.  Using Visual Studio 2010, the Azure Development Fabric and SQL Server, I will … Read more Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Moving your WCF REST + JSON Service to Windows Azure