Issues with Windows 8 phone

Despite relatively better sales numbers for Windows 8 phones, there remain more problems to the platform and MS selling strategy than just lack of applications. This article has defined the issues pretty well...

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/77660/there-are-six-major-problems-with-windows-phone-and-apps-isnt-one-of-them.html

Article: Windows 1.0: The flop that created an empire

An interesting story on how to learn from mistakes and innovate in 

different ways..

 
Windows 1.0: The flop that created an empire
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57613051-75/windows-1.0-the-flop-that-created-an-empire/

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Article: Google releases 'sneak peek' of Glass app-development kit

Google Glass readies for prime time with its latest GDK. Some really nice applications showcased.

Google releases 'sneak peek' of Glass app-development kit
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5122878/google-releases-sneak-peek-of-long-awaited-glass-development-kit

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Article: Atheer Looks to Add Human Touch to Futuristic Wearable Computers

Nice article....sounding almost like a sci-fi movie..

Atheer Looks to Add Human Touch to Futuristic Wearable Computers
http://allthingsd.com/20130530/atheer-looks-to-add-human-touch-to-futuristic-wearable-computers/?refcat=d11

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Article: Apple Retail Stores to Integrate iBeacon Systems to Assist with Sales and Services - Mac Rumors

Having seen some steam in this area, a good step in the Mobile ECommerce space eventually..

Apple Retail Stores to Integrate iBeacon Systems to Assist with Sales and Services - Mac Rumors
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/16/apple-retail-stores-to-integrate-ibeacon-systems-to-assist-with-sales-and-services/

Article: Nokia updating Windows Phone 8 Lumias with low-power Bluetooth

An interesting update from Microsoft after most appliances in the world are going LE. MS finally seems to be heading in the right direction after a long time..

 
Nokia updating Windows Phone 8 Lumias with low-power Bluetooth
http://www.cnet.com.au/nokia-updating-windows-phone-8-lumias-with-low-power-bluetooth-339345984.htm

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Article: Flipboard finally makes its appearance on Windows 8.1

Finally..it has been a long time coming...
Flipboard finally makes its appearance on Windows 8.1
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/14/flipboard-windows-8-1/?ncid=rss_semi

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Article: Android vs. iOS Development: Fight!

 Very nice and informative comparison between IOS and Android development methodologies..

Android vs. iOS Development: Fight!
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/16/the-state-of-the-art/

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Article: Recommended practices for using Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS)

Recommended practices for using Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS)
http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/10/22/recommended-practices-for-using-microsoft-push-notification-service-mpns.aspx

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Facebook login for Windows 8

Nice article for  Facebook login for Windows 8 ..

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/14/developers-can-now-use-facebook-login-in-windows-8-windows-phone-8-applications/

Business with little/no investments

If ever you have had a brilliant idea which you think would earn you top dollars and had the potential to make it big, you always wondered what the initial step should be. Investments and infrastructure fears have always pulled folks back.. Now some ideas on how to zoom past that in this article..

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/11/16/build-multi-million-dollar-website-without-spending-cent/?fromcat=all

While the author scratches the surface it can surely be processed further to dig out some interesting insights.

Amazedsaint's Tech Journal: Top 500 MSDN Links from Stack Overflow Posts

Amazedsaint's Tech Journal: Top 500 MSDN Links from Stack Overflow Posts

Sachin Tendulkar retiring

16th Nov 2013 will go down in history as one of the most memorable days in Indian cricket..the day Sachin Tendulkar, one of India's favorite cricketing icon, bowed out to a packed Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, India. Cricket will never be the same without him..
Good bye Sachin and thanks for those lovely 24 years!

Azure HDInsights, Mahout and Hadoop

A really well written article on creating a recommendation engine using Azure HDInsights, Mahout and Hadoop :
http://www.amazedsaint.com/2013/07/building-simple-recommender-engine.html

U.S. dollar: Ok we get the negativity

U.S. dollar: Ok we get the negativity
A good take at the US Dollar speculation

Happy Diwali

Here's wishing all my friends a very happy and joyous Diwali and a prosperous New Year..

Using Fiddler for debugging Windows Phone Apps

Nice article on using Fiddler on Windows Phone 8 ...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-Developer-Solutions/Using-Fiddler-to-troubleshoot-HTTP-protocol-issues-on-Windows-Phone

Xamarin and Calatrava

While there have been scores of tools in the market in the space of cross monile development platforms, i have always liked Xamarin due to its obvious affinity with c#...read an interesting take on cons of Xamarin at
http://www.whitneyland.com/2013/05/why-i-dont-recommend-xamarin-for-mobile-development.html

Also one of the tools the folks mention is Calatrava, a good tool built with support from Thoughtworks.

http://calatrava.github.io

Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition Release

The enterprise version of Windows 8.1 is finally out. Following is a link explaining what to expect from that upgrade:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/17/windows_81_update_what_to_know/

Pebble

With the advent of recent  Pebble based applications, checked out the cloud version of the development environment http://www.cloudpebble.com.
It gives a nice way to compile the application based on templates. The pbw that gets generated after the build can be downloaded and deployed.