Laura Foy

Mashable just launched a new website function that highlights Local Twitter Trends on a Bing Map. The application is intended to give devoted Mashable readers a sense of trending topics in selected areas around the world. Wondering what people are tweeting about in New York? Click the pin…

Brandon Watson, Director for Windows Phone 7, is making some announcements for developers today so we stopped by his office to get the highlights. Plus, we got the official word that on September 16th the final Windows Phone Developer Tools will be available. Here's an overview of what…

As you may recall, Bing recently held a contest asking for developers to submit their applications using the Bing Maps SDK- called the King of Bing Maps. They received tons of entries but there can only be ONE winner. Today, we announce that winner, show you some of the top runners and also…

Major League Soccer’s application for Windows Phone 7 Series lets fans track their favorite teams in real time, with notifications of game events, game stats and the ability to watch highlight clips via Silverlight and Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming. Check out this demo given by…

The MultiPoint Mouse SDK v1.5 has just shipped and it is changing the game- and the way we think about interacting with our computers. Here are some of the highlights: The new SDK features several improvements as well as Windows 7/Windows Server 2008  compatibility and…

TechFest is the time of year when Microsoft Research gets to show off all of the interesting projects they've been working on- and Project Gustav is absolutely incredible. This painting application looks so real I literally had to touch the screen to make sure I wasn't looking at an actual canvas.…

Today I'd like to introduce you to another piece of new technology from Microsoft Research Labs – Image Composite Editor (ICE) with Multi-Image Fusion.  In the current version of ICE, it provides advanced features for panoramic stitching such as choosing the stitch’s…

Yuri Alkin is a man of many interests, and many great accomplishments. He leads the Enterprise Social Computing team (over at Engineering Excellence group) responsible for Microsoft internal projects such as CodeBox, ToolBox and Mingle. His job is to lead creation and adoption of systems…

In this deep dive, Sean McKenna from Windows Phone and Greg Hodgal discuss how to program for Windows Phone 7 using the accelerometer. An accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration forces such as gravity or the forces caused by moving the sensor. All Windows Phones have at…

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