Introducing the T-Mobile G2 with Google — the First Smartphone Delivering 4G Speeds on T-Mobile’s Super-Fast HSPA+ Network

Introducing the T-Mobile G2 with Google — the First Smartphone Delivering 4G Speeds on T-Mobile’s Super-Fast HSPA+ Network

T-Mobile, Google and HTC re-team to deliver the groundbreaking successor to the T-Mobile G1; Exclusive preorder for current T-Mobile customers begins later this month

T-Mobile USA, Inc. today unveiled the T-Mobile® G2™ with Google™, delivering downloads at 4G speeds1, a blazing fast web browsing experience and tight integration with Google services. The G2 breaks new ground as the first Smartphone specifically designed for T-Mobile’s new HSPA+ network2, which covers 100 million Americans in more than 55 major metropolitan areas across the country. The G2 is an ultra-powerful Smartphone designed by HTC and is the highly anticipated successor to the T-Mobile G1, the world’s first Android™ powered mobile phone, pairing a large 3.7-inch screen with a unique hinge design that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. Current T-Mobile customers will get exclusive access to preorder the G2 starting later this month.

“T-Mobile ignited the spark that set the Android world ablaze two years ago with the launch of the world’s first Android-powered mobile phone, the T-Mobile G1, which remains an important milestone for both T-Mobile and the Android operating system,” said Cole Brodman, chief technology and innovation officer, T-Mobile USA. “Now, with the launch of the T-Mobile G2, we are re-teaming with our partners at Google and HTC to provide T-Mobile customers with another first — the first Android Smartphone designed to deliver 4G speeds on our new network.”

“One of the advantages of an open platform is the opportunity for developers to create rich mobile experiences and seamlessly get those experiences into the hands of consumers,” said Andy Rubin, vice president, engineering, Google. “From new services, such as Voice Actions, to mobile applications, developer-led Android innovation is flourishing. On Android Market alone, the number of applications available to consumers has grown from just 50 applications two years ago to more than 80,000 applications today.”

“Two years ago, HTC and T-Mobile worked together to deliver the world’s first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. From that start, Android has grown to be the leading Smartphone platform in the U.S., and one of the most popular globally,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation. “With today’s announcement of the G2, HTC and T-Mobile are once again bringing a breakthrough Android product to market.”

The first Smartphone specifically designed to deliver 4G speeds on T-Mobile’s new HSPA+ network, the G2 is optimized for performance to provide customers with blazing fast access to a world of information through websites, applications, videos, file downloads and more. Built on Android 2.2, the G2 offers seven customizable home screen panels, including a dedicated panel with one-click access to your favorite Google applications such as Android Market™, which currently offers more than 80,000 applications.

The T-Mobile G2 delivers a powerful mobile data experience that is tightly integrated with Google Voice™, as well as packed with Google applications such as Voice Actions™ from Google, Google Goggles™ and more. It is one of the first Smartphones in the industry to offer the new Voice Actions feature of Google Search™, which allows you to control your phone with your voice for calling contacts and businesses, sending messages, browsing the Web, listening to music and completing common tasks. It is also the first Smartphone to offer integrated access to Google Voice™, allowing customers to create a new account using their current mobile number right from the home screen. Google Voice then automatically transcribes voicemails to text so customers can read them like an e-mail or text message from their phone or online. Additional pre-loaded Google services include Google Search, Gmail™, Google Maps™ with Places and Navigation, YouTube™, Google Talk™ and Google Earth™, among others.

Adding fuel to the G2’s speed is its Snapdragon™ MSM7230 mobile processor which combines Qualcomm’s new HSPA+ capabilities and second generation applications processor. The Snapdragon MSM7230 offers an 800 MHz CPU and is optimized to deliver exceptional performance, long battery life and leading edge multimedia and web browsing — with download speeds faster than other solutions currently in the market.

The G2 delivers advanced Smartphone features including an HD video camera for recording crystal-clear, high-definition (720p) videos that can be automatically uploaded to your Photobucket account and a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus. The G2 also offers Smartphone essentials such as easy access to personal and work e-mail, including support for Microsoft® Exchange e-mail, contacts and calendar; social networking; and instant messaging. In addition, the G2 features a pre-installed 8GB microSD memory card with support for up to 32 GB, as well as a music player.

Additional features of the G2 include the following:

· Dedicated Quick Keys for one-touch access to your favorite Google shortcuts and applications
· Adobe Flash Player enabled Web browsing experience
· Pinch and zoom functionality for Web browsing and photo gallery
· 4GB internal memory with pre-installed 8GB micro SD card, with support for up to 32 GB of external memory
· Built-in 3.5mm headphone jack, stereo headset and Bluetooth support
· Swype® text input for fast, accurate communication

Availability

The T-Mobile G2 with Google will be available in the U.S. exclusively from T-Mobile, and current T-Mobile customers will have the opportunity to preorder the G2 in limited quantities later this month. Additional availability details will be shared in the coming weeks.

About T-Mobile’s HSPA+ Network

T-Mobile continues to expand its super-fast HSPA+ mobile broadband network, which now covers 100 million Americans in more than 55 major metropolitan areas. T-Mobile’s new HSPA+ network — which offers theoretical peak throughput speeds of 21 Mbps — offers today’s available 4G speeds to more people than any other wireless network in the country, with plans to reach more than 200 million people this year.

64-bit Support

64-bit editions of Windows 7 are designed to take full advantage of the increased RAM and multi-tasking capabilities of 64-bit PCs.

If you’ve gone PC shopping lately, you've probably noticed more computers with 64-bit processors, and you may have wondered what advantages they offer.

Put simply, a 64-bit PC can handle larger amounts of information than a 32-bit system. Since it can use more RAM—4 GB and up—a 64-bit computer can be more responsive when you're running lots of programs at once.

Which should you buy? If you tend to have a lot of programs open simultaneously or need to switch frequently between programs—or if you just want to be sure your PC can take advantage of the larger amounts of memory available today—64-bit is a great choice. If you run only one or two programs at a time or have older hardware and software that isn't supported by a 64-bit PC, a 32-bit system is a good choice.

Whether you choose the 32-bit or the 64-bit system, Windows 7 is ready.

Install Microsoft My Phone on your phone

The My Phone application may be used with Windows Mobile 6 phones and is pre-loaded on most newer Windows phones. If the software is not already on your phone, enter http://myphone.microsoft.com/install into your mobile phone’s browser to download the software.

Once the software has been downloaded to your phone, select the "Microsoft My Phone" application from the Programs or Settings menu on your phone to complete setup.

After syncing, return to web site at anytime to access all of your contacts, photos, text messages, and more.

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Law firm provides disaster recovery while reducing costs with e-mail upgrade

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP offers legal counsel in 40 different areas of practice, including corporate, financial services, litigation, real estate, commercial finance, tax, intellectual property, and trusts and estates. E-mail is a critical communication tool for its 1,350 employees, 650 attorneys and 700 administrative and support staff, who work in offices across the United States and in an affiliate in London. Katten wanted to improve site resiliency to avoid extended e-mail system outages that were imposed by property management at their buildings for electrical and HVAC maintenance. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Project Leadership Associates, Katten deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to provide a highly available messaging environment that supported the compliance requirements of legal communications. The firm expects high e-mail availability, savings in storage costs, and a decrease in compliance costs.

Situation

Founded in 1974, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP employs 650 attorneys who provide an extensive range of legal services across numerous industries. The firm’s clients include one-third of the Fortune 100, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.

Katten depends on secure and effective communication between attorneys and clients. Alexander Diaz, Enterprise Development Manager at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, says, “As a law firm, e-mail is one of the critical applications that we can’t live without.” Maximizing e-mail availability at Katten is important to help maintain a high level of client service and reduce response time for critical inquires.

The firm was using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and employees accessed e-mail through the Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 messaging and collaboration client. The company had e-mail servers in its Chicago office and five other locations. Each site used a two-node cluster for high availability, but there was no replication of data among the sites. Diaz says, “Some sites, such as Los Angeles, face brownouts as well as scheduled electrical outages. So we might have a complete system outage at a given site, which directly impacts business in those locations. They can still work on local documents, but e-mail is down for them.” Katten had begun using servers at a co-location facility to store a redundant copy of their litigation practice data and wanted to be able to use that site to provide disaster recovery for e-mail as well.

Without a robust disaster-recovery solution in place, Katten could only provide e-mail users with a brand-new mailbox on an alternative server via a third-party hosted service until their regular firm-provided e-mail service could be restored. However, this presented several issues around access and security. First, a new mailbox without data did not enable attorneys to continue working effectively, which precluded the ability to provide good client service. Second, when a work e-mail mailbox was down, an attorney might be tempted to use personal e-mail for urgent communication instead of waiting for IT to provision a new mailbox, putting sensitive legal information at risk. Diaz says, “Downtime costs us a lot in productivity, so redundancy is very important for the firm. The attorneys need access to e-mail to continue providing timely services to their clients.”

Since mailbox sizes at Katten average approximately 30 gigabytes (GB), a lot of storage is required. Katten uses a storage area network (SAN) storage system with fiber channel disks and redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) 10 redundancy for storage. This system is expensive but necessary to provide the performance the firm requires in its Exchange Server 2003 environment. “The vast majority of our mobile devices are BlackBerry. They are so I/O [input/output] intensive that it requires the need to be on fast disks to minimize the impact,” explains Diaz. The large mailbox sizes also affected the performance of the Office Outlook 2003 client. Attorneys complained that starting Outlook could take as long as five minutes, and Katten was looking for a way to improve performance.

As a law firm, Katten has stringent compliance, security, and litigation requirements. Diaz says, “We struggled with litigation holds. There have been times we needed to be able to search across multiple mailboxes, which was not easy in the previous environment. IT should be able to offload these tasks to the conflicts and records departments.”

Solution

To investigate a way to resolve its e-mail performance, storage, and compliance issues, Katten decided to participate in the Rapid Deployment Program for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. With the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Project Leadership Associates, Katten began testing Exchange Server 2010 in April 2009 and found that the solution was just what it was looking for. “Exchange Server 2010 has increased our ability to provide our customers with a very flexible and reliable messaging infrastructure,” explains Forrest McDuffie, Senior Consultant with Project Leadership Associates. “Exchange Server 2010 enables us to provide these options more cost effectively than we could with previous versions of Exchange Server.”

A key Exchange Server 2010 capability that has helped improve resiliency for Katten is Database Availability Groups. Database Availability Groups combines on-site and off-site data replication into a single high-availability solution that helps protect its Exchange Server environment from downtime. Using Database Availability Groups, Katten can implement high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions for each office so that employees will not face interruptions in service even if their sites experience a planned outage. Diaz says, “We will have a redundant copy within each site and a replicated copy at the co-location facility. With Exchange Server 2010, the failover is seamless.”

All Internet mail will be routed through two Hub Transport servers running Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. These servers will perform antivirus checks on all e-mail traffic destined in or out of the firm. In order to provide redundancy for external e-mail this role will have a redundant counterpart at the firm’s co-location site.

With Database Availability Groups resolving its high-availability and disaster-recovery needs, Katten began looking at the other capabilities Exchange Server 2010 could provide. With Exchange Server 2010, Katten administrators and compliance officers with the correct permissions can now use the Exchange Control Panel to perform multi-mailbox searches for items such as messages, attachments, contacts, or calendar entries. During conflict searches or litigation investigations, administrators can save the search results to a specified mailbox or store them for further investigation.

Katten also will take advantage of improved retention policies in Exchange Server 2010 to help satisfy corporate policy requirements on communications. Administrators can apply retention or expiration settings to specific items or folders in a mailbox, at an organizational or user level. The administrator configures the policies, which are displayed inside each e-mail, along with a header message describing the policy that has been applied. These headers make it easier for employees to identify when an e-mail is set for expiration and move it to another folder if they need to retain it beyond the expiration policy. Katten also plans to use Information Rights Management to help safeguard sensitive information.

With Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Katten can delegate Exchange Server 2010 administration capabilities by creating specialty roles with predetermined functions. Diaz says, “We found RBAC to be a huge benefit. That is something I have needed for a long time—to have more granular rights for administrators and lower-level IT staff to do targeted tasks. Today we have a lot of low-level administrators who execute mailbox moves or perform other Exchange Server related administrative tasks. Previous versions of Exchange Server would require giving them full Exchange Server administrator rights to perform some of these routine tasks. Now we can easily provide the help desk additional access to create or modify distribution lists—some of the routine tasks that would otherwise burden your more experienced Exchange Server administrators.”

The firm will take advantage of the 90-percent reduction in disk input/output (I/O) compared to Exchange Server 2003, by reducing the cost of the storage it uses on its SAN. “We’ll be able to use less expensive disks for the redundant copy at each site and in the co-location. We will use SATA [Serial Advanced Technology Attachment] instead of fiber channel disks and will also use RAID 5 instead of RAID 10 for the secondary copies,” says Diaz. The use of RAID 5 will reduce the amount of storage needed to help protect against hardware or site failures.

Attorneys at Katten will benefit from some of the new user capabilities provided by Exchange Server 2010. The Conversation View is useful because it collapses the conversation and can even pull together messages that have been saved in different folders. Diaz says, “Let’s say you are out of the office and you get ten e-mails on the same thread. Before, you would spend time looking for the end of the thread. With Exchange Server 2010 even when someone breaks the conversation, the conversation view maintains the thread and brings an otherwise disjointed conversation back in line.” He continues, “I also really like the new user interface in Outlook 2010. One of my favorite features is QuickSteps. With QuickSteps, I can easily automate some of the actions that I do frequently.”

Katten has been testing the client performance of Outlook 2010 along with the Windows 7 operating system. “Regarding performance, if you are running 64-bit Windows 7, it is blazingly fast. Microsoft did a bang-up job with these products. Performance with large mailboxes greatly exceeds our expectations. With the growing amount of data that needs to be retained, it is not uncommon for us to have 30-gigabyte plus mailboxes, making these performance improvements crucial to our business. I have been using Exchange Server 2010 and Outlook 2010 for e-mail since June and have been extremely satisfied with the performance and the user experience. It is a robust, very stable platform,” says Diaz.

Katten also would like to increase the number of employees using Windows phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 to reduce the I/O impact and security concerns of mobile devices accessing mail on its e-mail servers. Diaz says, “We are trying to expand the use of Windows phones and would like to expand the use of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync technology. During the development of our new Exchange Server 2010 environment we have also been testing the features and functionality of Windows Mobile 6.5. Overall, the experience has been nicer on Windows Mobile 6.5 than experienced on previous versions. The phones are receiving e-mail as quickly as it shows up on the mailbox server. It is almost instantaneous.” Windows Mobile 6.5 also delivers many of the same new features included in Outlook 2010 and Outlook Web App, providing a consistent user experience across the clients.

Benefits

With its deployment of Exchange Server 2010, Katten looks forward to several benefits that will improve its attorneys’ ability to serve clients. The firm expects less e-mail downtime, decreased compliance costs, reduced storage costs, and reduced administrative time.

Reduced E-mail Downtime

Diaz says, “The main goal for the Exchange Server 2010 deployment is to provide high-availability and business continuity functionality.” He continues, “With Exchange Server 2010, failover is seamless.” With improvements enabled by the use of Database Availability Groups to provide site redundancy at its co-location facility, Katten attorneys can continue to use e-mail without interruption, making them more responsive to client needs and enabling them to meet critical deadlines.

Decreased Compliance Costs

With Exchange Server 2010, Katten is reducing the time and cost of e-mail and records compliance. With the Exchange Control Panel for multi-mailbox searches and RBAC, compliance officers and administrators can better track, investigate, and manage the communications related to litigation holds. The time spent on compliance activities related to e-mail will decrease, reducing the need for IT involvement. With improved rights management and retention policies, the firm will enhance the ability to protect its intellectual property.

Reduced Storage Costs

With the upgrade to Exchange Server 2010, Katten will use less expensive storage for redundant copies of the data while maintaining similar performance to the primary copy. Diaz says, “Our storage costs for e-mail will be considerably less. The number of disks in the RAID sets will be much greater, with 1-terabyte drives in a RAID 5 configuration providing more available storage. With RAID 10, we used up a lot of disks. Exchange Server 2010 eliminates the need to use more costly storage configurations.”

Reduced IT Administration

With Exchange Server 2010, IT can safely delegate many of the less complex administrative tasks such as distribution lists or mailbox moves to the help desk personnel or less experienced IT staff. More experienced administrators would then be free to spend additional time resolving complex support issues. Thanks to Exchange Server 2010, Katten administrators can move mailboxes between databases without taking users offline. Employees will be happy because they can continue to send and receive mail without interruption, and IT administrators will appreciate the ability to perform mailbox moves during normal business hours.

“With the help of Project Leadership Associates, Katten has created a unified communications environment that helps to improve the quality and reliability of its e-mail platform for its attorneys and support staff. This solution will provide the firm with improved client servicing and productivity,” says Diaz.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Exchange Server 2010 can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange Server delivers the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities, which combine to form the best messaging and collaboration solution available.

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HTC's most exciting Windows phone is here

HTC HD2 delivers an experience your senses have been waiting for. The unprecedented 4.3-inch pixel-packed display is stunning. The world's first capacitive touch technology on a Windows phone along with a 1 GHz processing power ensure a smooth and lightning-fast response to the lightest touch of your finger.

Your phone, your way
Customise your phone to suit you. Choose from animated backgrounds to match your personality – and arrange the content tabs to allow easy access to your email, calendar, applications, games and shortcuts.

Stay updated

The HTC HD2 doesn't only reflect your personality; it also adapts to your location. The clock automatically updates to the local time wherever you are. You can see the outside temperature and weather at a glance. And, if you choose the weather wallpaper, you'll get a brilliantly lifelike animation that lets you virtually feel the sun’s rays or the chill of the breeze without setting a foot outside.

Bigger is better

With the HTC HD2, you get an impressive 4.3" TFT-LCD touch screen with 480 X 800 WVGA resolution. Enjoy the cinematic experience of the world’s largest mobile touch screen in the palm of your hand.

Peace of Mind

Thanks to the My Phone service, you can quickly and easily back-up all your contacts, emails, photos and text messages. My Phone allows you to access all of your uploaded phone data online – even if you can’t access your phone.

Capture the moment

The 5 megapixel auto-focus camera is perfect for capturing the beauty of the great outdoors; combined with the dual LED flash it’s also ideal for photographing in dim conditions.

Multimedia

Synch your phone and your PC to capture all your favourite music, videos and TV shows with Windows Media Player. Zoom in and out of documents, web pages, pictures or emails with just a simple pinch. Type up responses faster and more accurately on the large onscreen keyboard.

The Mono Project

Mono is a free and open source implementation of .NET that runs on Windows, Unix, and Macintosh. In more than 5 years since the first version of Mono was released, the Mono project has continued to add support for new functionality, such as C# 3.0, LINQ, and Silverlight; and has continued to see adoption.

Cross-Browser Best Practices

Creating complex sites that work well across browsers is a constant challenge for developers. Internet Explorer 9 makes it easier to create Web sites using interoperable HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Building Document Generation Systems from Templates with Word 2010 and Word 2007

Summary: Some business scenarios require generation of many documents by using a template document and a data source.

Building Document Generation Systems from Templates

Sometimes software systems must automatically generate documents to support various scenarios. The design of the system may include the ability for a subject matter expert to create a template document that drives the generation. The template document must determine specific areas of the document for replacement with automatically-generated content. For example, a placeholder in the document must be replaced with the salutation and name of the addressee of a letter. In addition, the template document may delineate specific sections of the template to remove from the generated document. For example, a template for a legal document may include all possible legal clauses, but based on the specific circumstances, certain legal clauses are omitted in the generated document. The numbering of headings and sections in the resulting document should be automatically adjusted as necessary.

Content controls are ideally suited to this scenario. You can make it easy to insert content controls by including macros to do the insertion. You can automatically set the title and tag of the content control in the macro. Or, you can develop a managed add-in that creates a custom Ribbon with buttons to insert various instances of content controls. You could have buttons that insert content controls with one of a specific set of tags such as Name, Address, Phone, and Legal_Clause.

Sometimes you want to maintain auxiliary information about each content control. You may want to allow the document designer to set a specific set of properties for each one. Content controls do not have a facility such as a special element or attribute in the markup for storing such information. In addition, the Microsoft Word 2010 user interface (UI) and Microsoft Office Word 2007 UI do not allow the document designer to maintain auxiliary information for a content control. However, there is an approach where you can easily allow the document designer to create and configure information associated with each content control. For more information about this process, see Associating Data with Content Controls. This blog entry shows a managed add-in that creates a custom task pane for maintaining this information. This auxiliary information is stored in a custom XML part. The information for each content control is associated by a unique ID that Word automatically generates for each content control. The following figure from this example shows a task pane that allows the content author to set auxiliary information about a content control.

Tip:

The blog entry, Associating Data with Content Controls, shows how to create an application-level task pane. Another approach is to create a task pane associated with each document. This may be more appropriate for some scenarios, such as if you have many document types, and you want to maintain different information for content controls in each document type.

When you create a custom task pane in an application that uses multiple windows to display documents and other items, you must take additional steps to ensure that the task pane is visible when the user expects it to be. The article, Managing Custom Task Panes in Multiple Application Windows, explains what you must know about how to make task panes work with multiple document interfaces (MDI). The article, Managing Task Panes in Multiple Word and InfoPath Documents provides more detail and sample code.

Replacing Content Controls with Content

There are two approaches that you can take when you use content controls to replace content. You can completely replace the content control with the content, or you can bind the content control to XML in a custom XML part. The following sections explore each approach in more detail.

Sometimes you want to completely remove the content controls from the generated document, and replace them with the specific text or content. The following resources provide guidance and examples about how to implement this scenario.

Binding Content Controls to XML in Custom XML Parts

Another approach for using content controls to generate documents is to bind the content controls to custom XML data. This approach has the advantage that when generating the custom document, you do not have to form WordprocessingML to replace the content controls. Instead, if you start with a document that already has content controls that are bound to custom XML data, you only have to replace the custom XML part with XML that contains the data for the new document. The data-bound content controls are automatically updated with the new data.

Handling Events when Manipulating Content Controls

In your solution, you may want to take specific action when a content control is inserted, deleted, or updated. For example, you can write an event handler that is called when the user moves out of a content control. You can then validate the data that is entered by the user.

Content control events are associated with the Document object.

Conclusion

Document generation systems are one of the most compelling uses of Open XML WordprocessingML. Content controls provide a great way to give structure to your content and to make it easier to build document generation systems.

Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office

Brief Description

Open XML is an open ECMA 376 standard and is also approved as the ISO/IEC 29500 standard that defines a set of XML schemas for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations, and word processing documents. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 all use Open XML as the default file format.

The Open XML file formats are useful for developers because they use an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML.

The Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. The SDK also uses the .NET Framework Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology to provide strongly typed object access to the XML content inside the parts of Open XML documents.

The Open XML SDK 2.0 simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages and the underlying Open XML schema elements within a package. The Open XML Application Programming Interface (API) encapsulates many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code.

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

The new Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 simplifies the entire development process, from design to deployment. New prototyping, modeling, and design tools help unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life. Coding is faster than ever, since you can leverage existing code and skills to write applications targeting different platforms, including SharePoint and Windows Azure applications. What’s more, developers and testers will work better together and save time with integrated testing and debugging tools. You’ll find and fix bugs quickly to make sure your solution is at the highest possible quality.

Intel

Intel brings 25 years of software experience to advanced tools designed for the end-to-end development lifecycle. Developers are taking advantage of Intel tools to create, debug, and optimize performance for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X applications.
From high-performance computing to MIDs, from threading serial applications to embedded, Intel software products enable Fortran and C/C++ developers to scale for multicore. The breakthrough Intel Parallel Studio enables Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ developers to simplify parallelism for the full range of Windows applications.

ESRI

Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities.

ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

Infragistics

As the world leader in user interface development tools and experts in the User Centric Design, Infragistics empowers developers to build and style User Interfaces that are the foundation for developing killer apps— applications with extreme functionality, complete usability and the “wow-factor!”

Infragistics enables immersive user experiences and rich data visualization in line of business applications across all .NET platforms — Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and Silverlight, with innovative UI components; a range of value-added services including UI testing tools, support, training and consulting; and UX tools-Quince and Quince Pro.

GrapeCity

Founded in 1980, GrapeCity is an Award-Winning Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a Premier Visual Studio Industry Partner and the world’s largest provider of developer components and tools. Along with Data Dynamics ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread, our PowerTools line of products typically are deep in functionality, unleash real business value and are driven by an unwavering commitment to the highest quality standards. We have more than 850 employees and tens of thousands of global customers.

For over 25 years, GrapeCity has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools and components, software services and solutions.

Accusoft Pegasus

Accusoft Pegasus provides imaging software development kits (SDKs) for application development. Our code works reliably behind the scenes when an application calls for capturing, storing, or viewing images. Use our SDKs to build document, photo, and healthcare applications. Features include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video, and viewing.

Technology is delivered for multiple 32-bit/64-bit platforms and development environments, including Microsoft Windows, .NET, .NET CF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Linux, and Sun Solaris.

OpenMake Software

OpenMake Software is the trusted advisor for enterprise continuous integration and build management solutions. Over 100,000 users at 400 companies worldwide use its two principal products, Mojo and Meister. These solutions enable customers to implement and manage distributed ALM processes that reduce software development cycle times, increase developer productivity, and provide management with actionable audit and traceability reports.

LearnDevNow

LearnDevNow.com provides the most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers – all for less than the cost of just one technical book!

The library includes 2,500 videos (over 1,100 hours of training) for Visual Studio, SQL Server, SharePoint and more, all written and presented by Microsoft MVPs and experts. Future video releases are included free and include Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010, ASP.NET 4.0, WPF and MVC 2.0.

Whether used for in-depth training within a particular subject matter, or as on-the-spot reference material, the LearnDevNow.com library is an affordable, engaging way to stay on cutting edge of new technologies.

Visual Guard

Novalys is an ISV specializing in security solutions, featuring Visual Guard.

Visual Guard is a security solution that combines end-user authentication and permissions.

You can enable Windows Authentication or opt for User name/Password authentication with a ready to use login form. Then, you can grant application permissions to user accounts.

When a user opens the application, their access rights are automatically applied.

A dedicated UI allows you to manage roles and create permissions for all your applications.

Advanced features include dynamic permissions created without coding, web administration console for business administrators, security log and reports, and security deployment features.

InishTech

InishTech Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services is a software activation service that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to adopt flexible licensing terms for their customers. InishTech SLP Services has a unique protection method that protects your application and licensing, allowing you to get to market faster while increasing customer compliance.

You need innovative ways to License, Manage and Protect your products. SLP Services are designed provide flexible license models to increase sales and reduce development costs, while also protecting intellectual property and safeguarding against revenue leakage. SLP Services also helps ISVs reduce development, test and QA costs.

Quest Software

Now more than ever, organizations need to work smart and improve efficiency. Quest Software creates and supports smart systems management products—helping our customers solve everyday IT challenges easier and faster.

At Quest, we focus on our customers first. Our products and people are dedicated to helping customers manage their critical applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. The combination of our award-winning software and strong customer relationships makes Quest a smart, reliable technology partner.

With consistent annual growth for 10 years, and 100,000 customers, Quest is a stable, global company that is positioned for long-term success.

Windows Phone 7 Series Developer

Windows Phone 7 Series promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. With a myriad of new devices, a powerful and immersive software platform, and a new marketplace to attract developers and provide easy access to applications, consumer demand for Windows Phones will be high, and developers will quickly adopt the Windows Phone platform to capitalize on this growing mobile marketplace.

Getting Started with Windows Phone

Windows Phone development platform supports both XNA Framework and Silverlight. This unit takes you through the step-by-step creation of your first Windows Phone Silverlight application.

Silverlight for Windows Phone

While Silverlight runs on the phone, there are some differences between Silverlight and Silverlight for the Windows Phone, not to mention some new controls and concepts. This unit focuses on all the new Silverlight controls, concepts, and tools for Windows Phones.

XNA Framework 4.0 for Windows Phones

XNA Game Studio 4.0 supports multiple platforms, including XBox 360, several Windows OS versions, and the latest addition, Windows Phone. While this unit doesn't offer a complete XNA Framework tutorial, it does introduce you to the basics of programming XNA Framework games with XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone.

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Windows Phone 7 Demo

Windows Phone 7 Series Demo

The entire Windows Phone 7 Series demo, live on Sways Innovations.

Windows Phone 7 vs iPhone

Windows Mobile & Windows Phone 7

Microsoft has said that Windows Mobile users will not be able to upgrade to its spiffy new Windows Phone 7. To discuss this move, we talked to JG Mason.

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LG show first Windows Phone 7 handset

It may be a long way from actually hitting the streets, but LG have given the first glimpse of a Windows Phone 7 handset, due for release later this year.

LG Windows Phone 7 Revealed!

Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7

At Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took center stage to announce a redesign of its mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. The fresh approach is a response to Microsofts dwindling market.

Windows Phone 7 Series

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Palm Updates Guidance

Palm, Inc. today indicated that it expects that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 will be in the range of $285 million to $310 million on a GAAP basis and in the range of $300 million to $320 million on a non-GAAP basis.1 Revenues for the quarter and full year are being impacted by slower than expected consumer adoption of the company's products that has resulted in lower than expected order volumes from carriers and the deferral of orders to future periods. Accordingly, Palm expects fiscal year 2010 revenues to be well below its previously forecasted range of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion. The company will provide more detail on its financial results during Palm's third-quarter financial results conference call currently scheduled for Thursday, March 18.

"Palm webOS is recognized as a groundbreaking platform that enables one of the best smartphone experiences available today, and our work to evolve the platform and bring industry-leading technology to market continues. However, driving broad consumer adoption of Palm products is taking longer than we anticipated," said Jon Rubinstein, chairman and chief executive officer. "Our carrier partners remain committed, and we are working closely with them to increase awareness and drive sales of our differentiated Palm products."

The Company expects to close its third fiscal quarter with a cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments balance in excess of $500 million.

About Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc. creates intuitive and powerful mobile experiences that enable consumers and businesses to connect to their information in more useful and usable ways. The company's groundbreaking Palm webOS platform, designed exclusively for mobile application, introduces true multitasking and Palm Synergy, which brings your information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view of your life.

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Toshiba TG01

Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 Movie

Synopsis

“Alvin and The Chipmunks 2” brings back our favorite furry brothers, Alvin, Simon and Theodore. Those world’s favorite talking, singing and dancing chipmunks meet their matches when the Chipettes show up in school. When the boys and girls go head to head, it’s twice the mischief, mayhem and fun as they ultimately team up to save the day in this big family comedy event!

Director : Betty Thomas
Cast : Jason Lee, Cameron Richardson
Duration : 89 mins

Black Ransom Movie

Synopsis

Director : KEUNG KWOK MAN
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Cast : Arak Amornsuppasiri, Yarinda Boonnag
Duration : 118 mins

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