Anith Gopal

Last week at the Microsoft Windows BUILD event, a number of announcements in relation to Windows Azure were made.These announcements included the following, the release of the Azure toolkit for Windows 8 , availability for Bing service APIs (including translation) internationally, a new Azure SDK , updates to Azure management capability and much more. Here is a list of some of the key announcements: International availability of Marketplace for Azure: The Windows Azure Marketplace will soon be available in 25 new countries, including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore. Users in those regions will be able to purchase data and applications for Azure, app store-style.

I am doing a series to give a behind the scene look at the making of a Windows Phone 7 app. In the process I realized that there is really no information around mobile applications integration with Windows Azure. This is my attempted at providing the how and why we want to use Azure in your apps

SharePoint 2010 e Apple iPad Corpo: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 supporta numerosi browser moderni, basati su standard e conformi a XHTML 1.0, ad esempio Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.6 e Safari 4.x, come illustrato nell’articolo di Microsoft TechNet ” Pianificare il supporto browser (SharePoint Server 2010) “, che fornisce informazioni dettagliate sulle funzionalità utilizzabili e non utilizzabili nei vari browser e contiene le informazioni più aggiornate sui browser supportati. Le versioni mobili del browser Safari incluse in Apple iPhone OS (utilizzato sia da iPhone che da iPad) non sono state testate da Microsoft e potrebbero causare problemi quando vengono utilizzate con SharePoint 2010

Lots of interesting posts by computer science teachers last week. And some news from various sources to share.

The Beatles may not have arrived in the iTunes Music Store just yet, but it’s not all disappointing news: the App Store has been updated with a new look and a stack of new iPhone apps have been released. As ever, here are my picks from the latest additions. My top pick for this week is Hitchcock, plus I’ve also checked out Newsstand, Blades of Fury and Rhapsody.

Right on schedule, Opera released Opera 10 for download last week, and, as expected, it’s a solid and lively performer — no major visible changes from the late betas and release candidate builds I’ve been reporting regularly . Opera 10 has been my default browser on all three of my production Macs for the past six months or more, ever since the first public alpha level preview was released, and it’s by far the best Opera yet. Opera, which supports the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms, is the fifth most popular browser on the planet according to NetApplications HitsLink stats for August , trailing Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google’s as yet Windows-only Chrome

For me, the Home Sharing feature introduced in iTunes 9 has been a long time coming. I’ve always run at least two Macs, one desktop and one notebook, and over the years I’ve tried various solutions for sharing media between multiple machines

From what I’ve been reading on support forums, some users of Quicksilver saw no affect from upgrading their machines to Snow Leopard. I however, was not one of those people.

I was watching the NFL season opener yesterday between Pittsburgh and Tennessee when I got a nice surprise. A new “ Get a Mac ” ad aired during a commercial break, along with the existing Patrick Warburton “Top of the Line” spot. The new commercial, called “PC Innovation Lab,” once again brings John Hodgman and Justin Long back to reprise their iconic roles as PC and Mac.

Having spent a day with iTunes 9 and OS 3.1 on an iPhone and iPod touch, I find that I am completely smitten with a feature I pretty much completely ignored before yesterday. I’m referring to Genius, which hadn’t lived up to its name until this latest retooling. Since upgrading to iTunes 9, I’ve used Genius Mixes exclusively on both my computer and my portable devices.

Hundreds of startups, giants like Nokia and Motorola and disruptors such as Apple and Google are all positioning themselves for what is going to be a bonanza as big as the wired Internet. GigaOM editors’ have put together a list of the top 15 most influential people in the Mobile Internet; together they make up the inaugural  Mobilize 15 Influencers , a list that is going to be published annually in tandem with our Mobilize conference

Across the pond, our European neighbors have been enjoying Spotify for some time now. It’s only fair that Apple should continue on in that vein and approve Rhapsody for the American masses. Sure Rhapsody costs money and Spotify doesn’t, but it does present a very competitive subscription-based alternative to iTunes.