At MIcrosoft's Worldwide Partner conference today, Andy Lees, Senior Vice President of Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft announced the beta of Windows Phone Developer tools has begun. Back in March, the suite of Windows Phone development tools was launched as a Community Technology Preview (CTP) which included Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 Series Add-in for Visual Studio, a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator, XNA Game Studio 4.0, and a CTP release of Expression Blend 4. The CTP received an update in April, shortly after it was launched.
The market for digital book readers is heating up, as is the demand (and supply) of digital books including all sorts of works of fiction and non-fiction. But one eBook market that’s still stuck in the “great potential” stage is the education market.
Spotify has been released for Linux. As of today, a Penguin-friendly version of the streaming music service is available as a preview, although we still don't seem any closer to the much-rumored U.S. launch.According to an official blog post, the Linux version was built by developers at the company "during hack days and late nights", and shares most of the same features as the Windows and Mac OS X desktop applications.
Looks like some of AT&T’s “most valuable customers” are receiving a letter offering them a free MicroCell. The box, which sits in your home or office and re-routes your cell phone — including iPhone — over your broadband network can often work miracles in low signal areas… for a price.
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