News tagged ‘Microsoft’

According to a post on the Bing blog Microsoft has released the Bing iPhone SDK and Mac OS X SDK for developers:

The Bing iPhone and Mac SDK is available for download on CodePlex, open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).

The SDK provides:

• The ability to easily query Bing from within Cocoa or Cocoa Touch application.
• Perform both synchronous and asynchronous queries.
• Search Bing for Web, Image, Video, News, and Phonebook results.

via iclarified

Microsoft has released a developers guide for porting iPhone apps to — shock and horror — Windows Mobile.

Can’t blame them. There are more than 65,000 apps in AppStore.

This news comes directly from DataViz. Documents To Go application for iPhone has just been sent to Apple and it is awaiting approval. The software will allow you to view and edit Microsoft Office documents.

The cost should be less than $20.

This month's Vogue has a great interview with Mrs. Bill Gates, the lovely philanthropist Melinda Gates. The interview focuses on the Microsoft founder's better half, but there's a fun Apple rivalry moment in the piece, when the subject of the couples' kids is brought up. She says: "There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids." Gates does admit to being swayed — a little— by Apple's smartphone, though: "Every now and then I look at my friends and say 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind having that iPhone'."

via geeksugar

Google has released Sync support to instantly coordinate your Google Calendar and Contacts. Avaliable in Beta for iPhone (link), but works already. Do not forget to backup everythong before using

Reminder: Google Sync uses the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol, all existing Contacts and Calendar events will be removed from your phone.

... Apple iPhone 3G. Congratulations!

The devices that competed against the iPhone 3G were as follows: Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, Nintendo’s Wii Fit, and B&W’s Zeppelin iPod speakers. All of the products up for this honor were judged in categories including performance, design and value, as well as “cool factor”.

via theiphoneblog

This is great news for former Blackberry, Palm, and Windows Mobile users. With this software users can view, edit, or create Microsoft Office content. All of the big apps are covered including Powerpoint, Word, and Excel.

Вумудщзук now has a website you can visit to sign up for release information here in this link.

Digital Daily notes that Apple's market capitalization at $159.37 billion is now worth more than Google's which is at $157.56 billion. Apple's market cap first exceeded $100 billion in May of 2007. Apple was included into the S&P 100 index at that time. For interest, MacDailyNews compiled a list of the market values of other notable companies:

• Microsoft (MSFT) - $255,648,204,000
• IBM (IBM) - $169,964,678,000
• Apple (AAPL) - $157,012,662,240
• Google (GOOG) - $156,392,862,560
• Cisco (CSCO) - $142,125,692,160
• Intel (INTC) - $135,658,860,000
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) - $111,866,423,760
• Nokia (NOK) - $97,746,699,520
• Research In Motion (RIMM) - $71,143,935,000
• Disney (DIS) - $59,257,501,500
• Dell (DELL) - $50,483,256,060

via macrumors

The easy way to connect to IPhone is thriugh SSH. But this method works when you have wifi. Now there is an application that allows to connect thriugh SSH without wifi, regular usb cable is used instead.

Step 1. Install OpenSSH on iPhone

Step 2. Download and install .NET Framework 3.5

Step 3. Download and install iPhone Tunnel Suite

Step 4. Run Tunnel Suite and select iPhone Tunnel, than select WinSCP or Putty. If you use Putty put 127.0.0.1 for Host Name.

iRinger creates free ringtones for your iPhone from virtually any music or video file you own. Even YouTube videos! iRinger exports ringtones to iTunes, so there is no need to "jailbreak" your iPhone. You will be creating ringtones in seconds. It's that simple. Here is a video tutorial:

Feature:

• FREE
• Three Steps: Import, Preview then Export. Done.
• Convert virtually any audio format into an iPhone ringtone
• Extracts audio out of video
• Choose which section of the audio you want to hear
• Adjust ringtone length, volume, fade in, fade out and loop gap
• Export to iPhone ringtone format and import right into iTunes
• Export to iPhone using SCP/SFTP and skip using iTunes
• Use audio effects: Delay, Flanger, Boost, Reverse, etc.
• Runs on all versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows Vista
• Requires iPhone firmware 1.1.2 or newer, iTunes software 7.5 or newer
• Works with the new iPhone 3G!

Download here: iRinger.exe. Developer's site: www.iringer.net

Here is an advanced video tutorial, it shows how to use some advanced features:

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There is just one step from hate to love. There was a post about hate, now about love:

Here is a list of top 10 reasons to love:

10. Search improvements.
9. Scientific calculator.
8. Sync with Mobile Me.
7. Supports for Word attachments
6. Normal headphone jack.
5. It's cheaper ($199).
4. Microsoft Exchange support.
3. Applications. Especially games (from AppStore).
2. 3G
1. GPS

JavaOne is one of the most interesting events in IT industry. We are expecting a lot of talks about Java and other technologies. One IPhone+Java - related talk was already mentioned at Java4IPhone.com (link). There are couple more of them.

• How to Port phoneME™ Advanced Software to Google Android, iPhone, OpenMoko, LiMO, and MoreHinkmond Wong (Sun Microsystems)

  May 07, 14:50 - 15:50

• Dancing Duke on Your PlayStation Portable: Porting phoneME™ Software to PlayStation Portable Max Mu (Sun Microsystems); Kuo Wang (iaSolution Technology Limited)

  May 08,19:30 - 20:20

• Extending Swing to Run Multitouch Applications (Multitouch Software)Michael Riecken (Trissential, LLC)

  May 09,16:10 - 17:10

Sessioin details:

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