ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year

By tim, on December 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and networks but is a distant follower in devices and has mixed prospects in the cloud. Winners include Apple, Google, Amazon,

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Nokia’s Windows Phone gamble

By tim, on October 28th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

At Nokia World in London on Wednesday, CEO Stephen Elop presented the new Lumia range of Windows Phones. You can watch the keynote here – I was impressed by Elop’s clarity and conviction, and also by VP Blanca Juti who talked about the Asha range of nearly-smartphone feature phones.

The demonstration of the

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The frustration of developing for Facebook with C#

By tim, on July 7th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am researching a piece on developing for Facebook with Microsoft Azure, and of course the first thing I did was to try it out.

It is not easy. The first problem is that Facebook does not care about C#. There are four SDKs on offer: JavaScript, Apple iOS, Google Android, and PHP. This

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Windows Phone “Mango” shown, looks good but still no Adobe Flash

By tim, on May 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended the London press briefing for Windows Phone “Mango”, also known as Windows Phone 7.1. This will be on new phones in the Autumn, and will be a free update for all existing Windows Phone 7 devices.

Microsoft showed a bunch of new features, including Internet Explorer 9 – which, we were

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Single sign-on from Active Directory to Windows Azure: big feature, still challenging

By tim, on December 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted a white paper setting out what you need to do in order to have users who are signed on to a local Windows domain seamlessly use an Azure-hosted application, without having to sign in again.

I think this is a huge feature. Maintaining a single user directory is more secure and

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Which mobile platforms will fail?

By tim, on October 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Gartner’s Nick Jones addressed this question in a blog post yesterday. He refers to the “rule of three” which conjectures that no more than three large vendors can succeed in a mature market. If this applies in mobile, then we will see no more than three survivors, after failures and consolidation, from the following

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BBC iPlayer goes social

By tim, on May 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m just back from the BBC’s press briefing on the new iPlayer. This is a public beta. The press release is here.

The big story is that social media features are now integrated. The idea is that you can post recommendations (or otherwise) to Twitter and Facebook about programmes you are viewing, or participate

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Future of Web Apps cheers the independent Web

By tim, on October 2nd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The Future of Web Applications conference in London is always a thought-provoking event, thanks to its diversity, independence and character. That said, it is a frustrating creature at times. The frustration on day 1 was the barely functional wi-fi, which ruined a promising interactive application called HelloApp, built with ASP.NET MVC. HelloApp would have

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O2 router attack shows danger of staying logged in

By tim, on September 9th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Concerned about web security? One thing that may prove more valuable than any amount of supposed security software (anti-virus and the like) is the simple good practice of logging out of web sites at the end of each session.

Here’s the reason. Let’s say you are logged into some site – could be Facebook,

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Flash library for Facebook, Silverlight library for MySpace

By tim, on March 31st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe and Facebook have announced that ActionScript 3, the language of Flash 9 and higher, is now officially supported by FaceBook along with JavaScript and PHP. Information about coding for Facebook with Flash is here, and the library itself is on Google Code.

MySpace has announced the MySpace Silverlight SDK which will be hosted

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