The title of the following video might be misleading, this video actually showcases the change in 19 years of IT and productivity at an imaginary company and the implementation of Microsoft productivity solutions. The video glimpses the possibilities and evolution of Microsoft technologies in productivity.
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Over 2500 Nokia employees in Finland work on Symbian OS. When they got news of Nokia Partnering with Microsoft to dump Symbian for Windows Phone 7, over 1000s of them went out on streets protesting to tell Nokia that they are not loving it.
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Announced at CES 2011, the second version of Microsoft Surface is awesomely smarter and only 4 inch thick. The smartest thing is that it uses PixelSense technology which equips every pixel with infra red recognition ability that makes it able to recognize objects and even read the text on the paper that are placed on Microsoft Surface 2. Watch this official promo:
Guy from Tested has made this 14 minutes long Windows Phone 7 video shot at PAX 2010 in which he shows off WP7 UI and some games. Phones used are LG GW910 and Samsung Taylor.
As a designer, UX designing is my favorite part of application development. I love the UI of Windows Phone 7 and I always have an urge to experience the UX designing of a Windows Phone 7 app.
I prefer designing User Experience on paper with colored pencils and than using any app on the PC because I think it is the most natural way and one can get a lot of inspiration. Our fellow blogger, Umair Khan Jadoon, is an enthusiast Windows Phone 7 developer and we had a chance to sit together and make something that can help designers to sketch up the User Experience of our favorite platform. We came up with these UX Sketch Templates that can help designers to sketch up the UX of Windows Phone 7. So here they are, download them and print them out for your daily Windows Phone 7 UX design needs.
W3C has announced this Web Performance Working group that will ‘provide methods to measure aspects of application performance of user agent features and APIs’. The first thing that these guys will do is recommending an API that measures the performance of browser navigations. The Web Performance group will be co-chaired with Microsoft and Google.
HTC’s first (rumored) Windows Phone 7 device, HTC Schubert, was leaked and videoed by 247windowsphone. Reported by BoyGeniusReport, there are no news about the specs of this device although it looks similar to Nexus One. Checkout the video:
The device looks lovely to me.
No offence to Mac lovers, this is just for a good laugh. p.s this was made on a PC. 
At gdgt live Seattle (show hosted by gdgt). Windows Phone 7 made a public appearance on a booth setup by Microsoft. The response was positive and the people look impressed:
There is one thing that can be misleading, the dude at 4:40 says “No listening to Pandora while you look at your email”. Manan explains in this post that Windows Phone 7 can do background audio if the app is programmed to do so. That means if Pandora is programmed to do background audio, one can have a look at email while listening to the music on Pandora.
Although 3d Technology has been around for decades but after the recent success of 3DFilms such as Avatar, Up, Final Destination 4 etc, there is renewed thirst in public for 3d entertainment. Due to this growing popularity there will be unprecedented amount of 3d film releases during the upcoming months. Titles include Toy story 3, Despicable Me, Harry Potter and the Deathly hollows, The Last Airbender and the list goes on.
Electronics-Manufacturers are competing to replicate this 3d experience for consumers at home. In fact different companies have been manufacturing 3d TVs for some time now but the problem with most of these products is that in order to get the 3d experience you need to wear those special 3d-glasses, which is a turn off for many viewers.
Companies like Phillips are already producing 3DTVs which don’t require you to wear any kind glasses but the problem with these TVs is that the viewer should be at a particular distance from the TV in order to enjoy the 3D effect other wise the videos end up out of focus.
