Hi there today we start with a new Blog Category, App of the Week. From now on to all eternity you will get each Monday a short review from our team about one of our favourite WP7 and later this year maybe also about our favourite Windows 8 apps. ...

Hi there I know Mango has been out there for a while and writing about one of its new features could be boring but I recently discovered the "Internet Sharing" options in the WP7 settings. Normally when I travel and want to use g3, I boot my...

The famous YMITS Competition goes into the next round! Thanks to the incredible results of last year we want to give swiss students again the opportunity to publish on the Marketplace by focusing on application and game development for Windows Phone this...

A detailed TechDays 11 Bern agenda is now available at TechDays website . As previously announced, the 8th Edition of TechDays Switzerland offers a separate full-day program for each audience, here some of the main highlights per day: IT PRO DAY...

Next week the Neptun Road Show through the Universities begins. Neptung will demonstrate their actual model selection. If you are looking for a new laptop, Neptun is the right choice . The Lead Student Partners will be present at some events as well,...

If you are seeking the best moment for buying a new laptop, you should probably go ask the stars or read your horoscope. It would say: “ Your star constellation is favorable during these days. The second time this year NEPTUN enters our orbit and...

The application process for Microsoft Research PhD Scholarships is open until 16th of September. The projects should be related to the following research fields by Microsoft Research in Cambridge: Computational Science Computer-Mediated Living...

If you are a student developer and want a free Mango Phone there are only 5 easy steps to follow: Make sure you’re registered for DreamSpark Download and install Expression Studio Ultimate and the new Mango Windows Phone Developer Tools...

We proudly announce the winners for Round 2 of the You Make IT Smart 2010/2011. But first of all we like to congratulate everybody who participated in this year’s competition. Just one year ago, the Windows hone 7 got launched and simultaneously...

We are happy to announce that we are offering students free of charge entry to TechDays , the largest Swiss Microsoft technology event taking place on October 20-21, 2011, at the Kursaal Bern. This is a great change for you to hear best highlights of...

Last week the ETH Game Programming Lab Zürich presented their recent student projects in front of an open audience with some invited special guests (i.eg. from Microsoft and Disney’s Black Rock Studio). They presented the final results after...

Student`s in Switzerland have another great opportunity to win a Windows Phone 7. They just need to participate in a 5 min online-survey and get the chance to win 1 of 3 WP7`s among all participants. There`s no easier and comfortable way to a WP7 that...

Hello World! Today I saw a really impressing video from the preview of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 update coming this fall It gives a great impression of what is coming, The things I'm most exited about are: Multitasking: So I can...

Hello all, Good news to for all the Kinect enthusiasts! Microsoft Research in collaboration with IEB (Interactive Entertainment Business) is working on the Kinect for Windows SDK. It should be available sometime in spring of this year as a FREE...

Hi all, From a friend I got a link to a really nice video from a broadcast on Swiss television called "Einstein". It shows the possibilities of the Kinect sensor in use, with an example from universitiy of Bern (forensic medicine). Have a look and...

Hello again, This week we had two "You Make IT Smart" workshops, in Bern and in Geneva. In Bern we showed the students the tools to take part in YMITS and guided the through round one, everyone got his " Microsoft LifeCam Cinema" . ...

TechDays, the biggest Microsoft Switzerland technology event, takes place 5-6 April 2011 in Palexpo Genève and 2-3 May in Congress Center Basel. TechDays 11 once again features two full days of latest trends in software development and -architecture...

Hello Reader, in my last blogpost I talked about why I used Windows-Live as an internal communication-platform for two student-projects. This blogpost is about how to manage your external communication. I will show how to improve your external communication...

Swisscom is launching a competition for the "App of the Year 2011" on its Swisscom Labs online platform. Apps for the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 smartphones can be submitted up to the end of August. The best app for each operating system will...

Hi all, Good news for all of you who like to use the Kinect device with the PC and do programming on it. Microsoft is working on an official driver and SDK for developers. Different hacks on the devices (see my last blog) show the huge interest and...

The Swisscom Labs is an online platform for developers, innovators and early adopters to interact with Swisscom and each other. Great news and competitions are waiting for you! Try what happens when you click the background – and this isn’t...

We are organizing half a day MSDN TechTalk event at Microsoft office in Wallisellen and broadcasting it via LiveStreaming on Tue 25 January 2011 to present two new members of the Microsoft Web Stack family: WebMatrix and Orchard. WebMatrix is first...

We are very excited to announce that on Thursday, January 13th, Microsoft will be streaming their worldwide Enter the WebMatrix event live from CodeMash! Starting at 12:30PM EST (5:30pm GMT), you can tune in live to watch how Web development is evolving...

Some time ago I was a very active player in a popular MMORPG, and raided from time to time with the others in the game. When we raided and we were more or less successful we always wanted to record a video to share our progress. But at that time I...

At the moment I’m involved in two student projects that we manage through Windows Live Services. In this article I want to explain why we chose Windows Live as a working platform. We were looking for a solution to share documents and manage a project...