Posts Tagged ‘Web development’

MS SWIT 2010: First Day

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

On December 2 in Kiev was started the Microsoft SWIT 2010 Conference. MS SWIT is the largest event for Ukrainian IT professionals where they can communicate and share the experience with the colleagues.

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The two-day event is dedicated to the innovative MS products and technologies, such as Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, SharePoint 2010, System Center, Visual Studio, etc. About 30 lecturers from Microsoft and its partner companies take floor in three specialized sections.

Softheme takes part in MS SWIT 2010. Our company is very interested in new information technologies, software development trends and cloud computing. We have participated in a discussion of various topics such as

Application Development for Windows Phone 7
Sergei Lutay

Mobile devices have become an integral part of human life. Important role in establishing this fact played a most possible devices, and capacity to create different kinds of applications, allowing each of us to more effectively utilize their resources. In this report Sergei told us about what advantages the platform Windows Phone 7 makes for developers to create business applications and how to develop high-performance applications for the platform.

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Google’s Book of 20 Things

Friday, November 19th, 2010

A few days ago, Google played fashion guru to the public in its Boutiques.com launch. Today, the company is taking on a new role: a teacher.

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In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for the World Wide Web, Google has published an online interactive children’s book meant to educate people on browsers and the web in this current age. Called ’20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web’, the book informs people on what exactly HTML5 is, what do ‘cookies’ or ‘cloud computing’ mean, and other nuggets of web wisdom.

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Google Jumps Into Fashion E-Commerce

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Aiming to become the first stop for online shoppers of apparel and accessories, Google Inc. launched a fashion e-commerce site Boutiques.com, which uses human curators, visual recognition and machine learning technology to recommend items to shoppers.

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The move thrusts the Mountain View, Calif., Internet giant into the rapidly growing online fashion market, an area in which Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. are stepping up their offerings. It’s a lucrative market, with the online apparel and accessories industry hitting $19 billion in the U.S. in 2009, according to comScore Inc., and growing fast.

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Start-Up Plans a More Personal Social Network

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Facebook made oversharing with a small army of friends a mainstream activity. Now, one of its early architects is swinging in the other direction.

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Dave Morin, who helped build Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform, left the company this year to start his own venture, called Path. He says it is not another social network he has created, but a personal network, and on Monday, it will open to the public with an iPhone app for sharing cellphone photos with a limited circle of friends.

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Silverlight, HTML5, and Microsoft’s Opaque Development Strategy

Friday, November 5th, 2010

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At the Professional Developers Conference 2010 (PDC10) last week, a Microsoft executive misspoke, or at least over-generalized, regarding the software giant’s plans for HTML 5 and Silverlight, kicking off an online debate about the viability of the respective technologies and a hasty public statement on Microsoft’s corporate website. But this episode underscores a much deeper problem around compatibility that is going to dog businesses of all sizes for years to come—a situation that will only be exacerbated by the popularity of heterogeneous smartphone platforms.

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SWIT Investor Day