On Wednesday, Microsoft provided a glimpse of the new Windows Phone 8 devices shipping this fall. GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel noted recently in a blog post that the changes to come are precisely what Microsoft needs to help kickstart its Windows Phone sales. For users, increased personalization and features will be a major selling point. For developers, Kevin believes the shared core code between Microsoft’s mobile and desktop platforms will result in not only better hardware choices, but also a stronger application ecosystem and unified experience among phones, tablets and Windows computers.

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Have you thought about developing a Windows Phone 7 app? In this article we will lead you through the development of a very simple, but fully functioning, Silverlight application for Windows Phone. After you are done creating the application, it will allow you to browse the Internet from within the sample application.

AT&T is broadening its Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services portfolio with new application integration, development, and management solutions, as well as enhanced global roaming capabilities to help companies across various industries curb IT costs, complexity and speed time to market.

Remember Java ME?

Are you prepared for the tablet onslaught?

The Android NDK (Native Development Kit) is an add-on tool to the Android SDK which allows developers to create applications which utilize heavily the CPU and graphical capabilities of the device.

This blog post helps you understand the Windows Phone 7 Development environment.

AT&T has created a set of cross-platforms UI elements for our developers!

This is the time of year when the days are getting shorter, and the evenings draw in.   It's a perfect opportunity to stay indoors, and mark your calendar to attend the webcast "Creating Screen-independent Apps on the  FLIPOUT, FLIPSIDE, & BRAVO phones".   

In an effort to modernize the Java ME platform and to catch up with some of the more hyped platforms at the moment (like Android and iPhone), the JCP (Java Community Process) released the MIDP3 specification for Java ME devices.

On September 16th, we had a successful "Meet the Expert" session with Simon Jackson, an expert developer, leading the session. He also posted a report on his blog and uploaded some samples at:

http://xna-uk.net/blogs/darkgenesis/archive/2010/09/17/wished-you-were-there.aspx

The presentation will be posted at developer.att.com/webcasts in October after our new website is launched.

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