El diplomado está diseñado para perfil de desarrolladores con un mínimo de 6 meses de experiencia en el lenguaje C# que quieran conocer todo el proceso de desarrollo de aplicaciones para Windows Phone.

• Conocer las características de hardware principales de Windows Phone.
• Diseñar aplicaciones con el lenguaje de diseño metro.
• Desarrollar aplicaciones bajo los componentes de Silverlight.
• Aprovechar la experiencia de navegación de Windows Phone dentro de aplicaciones.
• Almacenar datos para acceder a ellos desde tu aplicación.
• Diferenciar entre el distinto uso de comunicaciones y redes.
• Usar las diferentes APIs del teléfono.
• Hacer uso del multitasking.
• Publicar tus aplicaciones en el marketplace de Windows Phone

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• Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start
• Windows Phone Virtual Labs
• Tutoriales en español (MVP Content)
• Mango Jump Start
• Crear una aplicación Windows Phone con Visual Basic
• Improve your User Experience Design
• Carrera de Windows Phone 7.1 en MVA

Códigos de Ejemplo:

• Code Samples for Windows Phone
• Catalogo de contenidos
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit
• Versión 7.0
• Versión 7.1 (Mango)

Webcasts:

• Videos en ingles
• Videos en español

E-Book:

• Programming Windows Phone 7

Entrenamiento WP7.5 en 4 sesiones

• Windows Phone 7 Básicos
• Windows Phone 7 Mango
• Windows Phone 7 Conceptos Fundamentales
• Windows Phone 7 Avanzado

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Computerworld - Thanks mainly to the new Lumia 900 and Nokia, Windows Phone could represent nearly 17% of the smartphones shipped in 2015, edging out Apple's iPhone for the second-place ranking behind Android smartphones.

That's the view of analysts at IHS (formerly iSuppli) who are well aware that Windows Phone made up only 1.9% of the market for all of 2011, with Apple's iOS at 18% and Android smartphones by all makers at 47.4%. (Note: Apple's iPhone share surged to 44% in the fourth quarter, according to Nielsen and others.)

IHS said Thursday that Windows Phone will reach 16.7% of market share in 2015, behind first-ranked Android at 58.1% and just slightly ahead of iOS at 16.6%.

IHS said the introduction of the Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) at CES last week showed Microsoft's and Nokia's promise in smartphones. The Lumia 900 will be the first Nokia device to run over fast 4G LTE and will be sold by AT&T in the U.S. in the coming weeks. Pricing has not been announced.

Also, Nokia plans to sell the Nokia 900 to businesses through Microsoft's business channels, taking advantage of a rich array of business software built by Microsoft, IHS said. As such, Lumia 900 will be competing against an entrenched base of BlackBerry smartphone users in North America.

The Lumia 900 is also rolling out first in North America, where Nokia has traditionally been a weak player, IHS noted. It will help in the U.S. that the smartphone has a large 4.3-in. Amoled touchscreen and a 12-megapixel camera, making it competitive with the best Android phones on the market, IHS noted.

"The introduction of the Lumia 900 shows that Nokia believes the road back to smartphone dominance runs through North America," Francis Sideco, an analyst for HIS, said in a statement. "And the way to win North America is through its operator channels."

"The Lumia 900 and its successors will help Microsoft to reclaim the number 2 ranking in smartphone operating system market share in 2015," said Wayne Lam, another IHS analyst.

IHS realizes that Nokia won't be the only seller of Windows Phone smartphones, but will still sell about half of all Microsoft OS-based handsets in 2012. That percentage will rise to 62% in 2013, before declining in 2014 as other manufacturers such as Samsung and HTC catch up.

IHS also believes that Nokia, which is a well-established manufacturer globally, will help lure app developers to the Windows Phone platform to help expand its popularity.

Source: https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223548/Windows_Phone_to_bump_iPhone_for_second_place_in_15_IHS_predicts

Microsoft today embraced the gamification trend by introducing a new plug-in for its Visual Studio development program that will let software developers unlock achievements, receive badges and work their way up a leaderboard based on the code they write.

And of course, they can also brag about their achievements on Facebook and Twitter.

It might sound a little silly, and it’s definitely not entirely serious — particularly when it comes to the “Just for Fun” achievements such as the “Potty Mouth” award for using five different curse words in a single file.

But there are some practical goals behind it. Apart from shining a light on the work of developers, the achievements are designed to highlight Visual Studio features that many developers might not know about.

There are 32 achievements, including stuff we can all understand like the “Lonely” badge for coding on a Friday or Saturday night or the “Scroll Bar Wizard” badge, for writing a single line of code at least 300 characters long. Then there are achievements that must be funny to developers, such as the “Turtles All The Way Down” badge, for writing a class with ten levels of inheritance, and “Interrupting Cow,” for having 10 breakpoints in a file.

The full list is available here.

So how does it work? “The Visual Studio Achievements plug-in analyzes a background thread each time code is compiled, as well as listens for particular events and actions from Visual Studio,” explains Karsten Januszewski, software development engineer for Microsoft’s Channel 9 developer site. “When certain criteria or actions are detected, the plug-in triggers a pop-up alert and awards a new badge, which is then displayed on the public leaderboard and the developer’s Channel 9 profile.”

The project was inspired by a post from a Visual Studio user.

Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2012/coding-fun-microsofts-visual-studio-badges-leaderboard

Mucha suerte a todos los participantes!!! =)

• Categoría de Diseño de Software (México):
• 1er Round (Envío del resumen) - 31 de Enero *Extensión - NUEVA FECHA*
• 2do Round (Envío del Formato de Proyecto) - 31 de Enero
• 3er Round (Envío del Storyboard y el 50% del código) - 28 de Febrero
• 4to Round (Envío del Video) - 17 de Marzo
• Final Nacional - 19 de Abril

• Diseño de Videojuegos: Xbox y Windows
• 1er Round (Envío del Storyboard/Resumen) - 14 de Febrero
• 2do Round (Envío del Juego) - 13 de Marzo
• 3er Round (Calificacion a la final mundial) - 3 de Mayo
• 4to Round (Final mundial) - 10 de Julio

• Diseño de Videojuegos: Windows Phone 7
• 1er Round (Envío del Storyboard/Resumen) - 14 de Febrero
• 2do Round (Envío del Juego) - 13 de Marzo
• 3er Round (Calificacion a la final mundial) - 3 de Mayo
• 4to Round (Final mundial) - 10 de Julio

• Reto Windows Azure:
• 1er Round (Concepto y Diseño de Prototipo) - 13 de Marzo
• 2do Round (Envío de la Aplicación) - 3 de Mayo

• Reto de IT:
• 1er Round (Quiz calificador) - 26 de Enero
• 2do Round (Caso de Estudio) - 27 de Marzo
• 3er Round(Reto Final - el laboratorio virtual) - 9 de Mayo

• Reto de Windows Phone:
• 1er Round (Diseño de Concepto) - 13 de Marzo
• 2do Round (Envío de la Aplicación) - 3 de Mayo

That means the system is compatible with existing equipment. "The entire reception and transmission logic could be reused from existing Wi-Fi implementations," says Chintalapudi.

The team calls these transmitters and receivers "receiver-lets" and "transmitter-lets." Together, they make up what's known as a "compound radio."

The resulting wireless network doesn't increase data rates in specific ranges of spectrum above what's currently achieved with latest-generation technology. It does, however, make more efficient use of the entire range of spectrum, and especially the white spaces freed up by the FCC.

The new radio integrates with a previous Microsoft project that provides a wireless device with access to a database of available white-space spectrum in any part of the United States. That system, called SenseLess, tells a device where it can legally broadcast and receive. WiFi-NC then chooses the bands of spectrum that have the least interference, and broadcasts over them.

By sending its signal over many smaller radios that operate in slivers of the available spectrum, WiFi-NC suffers less interference and experiences faster speeds even when a user is at the intersection of overlapping networks. This is important because the white spaces that may be authorized for commercial use by the FCC are at the lower ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, where signals can travel much further than existing Wi-Fi transmissions.

Whether or not Microsoft's WiFi-NC technology gets commercialized depends on Congress, says Kevin Werbach, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School, and an expert on the FCC's effort to make more spectrum available for wireless data transmission.

"The problem is that many of the Congressional proposals to give the FCC [the authority to auction off currently unused bandwidth] also restrict it from making available white spaces for devices around that spectrum," says Werbach.

Microsoft hopes WiFi-NC will persuade Congress to approve wider use of white spaces.

"It is our opinion that WiFi-NC's approach of using multiple narrow channels as opposed to the current model of using wider channels in an all-or-nothing style is the more prudent approach for the future of Wi-Fi and white spaces," says Chintalapudi. The team's ultimate goal, he adds, is to propose WiFi-NC as a new wireless standard for the hardware and software industries.

Microsoft has developed a new kind of Wi-Fi network that performs at its top speed even in the face of interference. It takes advantage of a new Wi-Fi standard that uses more of the electromagnetic spectrum, but also hops between the narrow bands of unused spectrum within television broadcast frequencies.

In 2008, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved limited use of "white spaces"—portions of spectrum adjacent to existing television transmissions. The ruling, in effect, expanded the available spectrum. Microsoft developed the new network partly as a way to push Congress to allow much broader use of white spaces, despite some concerns over interference with some other types of wireless devices, such as wireless microphones.

The fastest Wi-Fi networks, which can transmit data at up to a gigabit per second, use as much spectrum as possible, up to 160 megahertz, to maximize bandwidth. Krishna Chintalapudi and his team at Microsoft Research have pioneered an approach, called WiFi-NC, which makes efficient use of these white spaces at these speeds.

Rather than using a conventional Wi-Fi radio, it uses an array of tiny, low-data rate transmitters and receivers. Each of these broadcast and receive via a different, narrow range of spectrum. Bundled together, they work just like a regular Wi-Fi radio, but can switch between white-space frequencies far more efficiently.

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/communications/39429/?p1=A3

By: Tim Rains, Director, Trustworthy Computing

When Information Technology departments evaluate potential uses of cloud computing for their organization, many of them quickly realize they no longer have the near omniscient visibility into the operations environment they have when hosting those same workloads inside their own premises.

Depending on the deployment model, details pertaining to the operational aspects of a cloud service provider might be abstracted from the customers using the provider’s services. For example, in the case of a public cloud service, customers accept a reduced level of transparency in order to get the benefits, namely potential reduced costs and increased business agility, from the economies of scale that subscription-based cost sharing arrangements can create.

Organizations try to manage this loss of transparency in different ways. Some customers I have talked to try to put a “right to audit” clause into the service level agreements they negotiate with their cloud providers. But I’m not sure this really provides the transparency they want, for at least a few reasons:

• Transparency or Breach: If each customer of a cloud provider has the unrestricted right to audit the cloud operations and infrastructure, the audit activity of one customer might constitute a breach or policy violation for other customers sharing the same cloud infrastructure.
• The Cloud is a Stack: Cloud providers typically leverage the services and infrastructure of other vendors during the course of providing services to its customers. For example, network services to and from a cloud provider’s data center are likely provided by two or more network providers (for redundancy, load balancing, etc). Even if a “right to audit” clause provides visibility into a cloud provider’s environment, it likely won’t provide insight into the tiers of providers that constitute the cloud stack that the customer is leveraging. In other words, the “right to audit” clause won’t transmit to all the carriers that are involved in potentially providing service for that customer.
• Audit or Innovate: If every customer in a multi-tenant environment periodically exercised a “right to audit”, this would drive out many of the efficiencies that create potentially lower costs and greater business agility for those tenants. Cloud providers would spend more time responding to steady streams of audit requests than innovating and creating the efficiencies that customers are looking for.

As Mark Estberg, Senior Director in Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services, describes in the third video of Trustworthy Computing’s Cloud Fundamentals video series, there needs to be a partnership between customers and cloud service providers. Customers need to know that their cloud provider(s) are being responsible with the applications and data they entrust to them; this is especially true for organizations that have compliance obligations. Customers need to be mindful of their requirements and whether they are compatible with the deployment model(s) they are evaluating. Periodic audits by some small number of trusted auditors in combination with some level of automated reporting, seems to be a reasonable model until innovations in the industry provide richer automated reporting.

If you haven’t seen the first two videos in the series, the introduction video and the video on business agility are both available.

Please check back on this blog in the coming weeks as we continue the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series and explore cloud topics that are top of mind for security professionals in the areas of security, privacy and reliability.

 Source: https://blogs.technet.com/b/trustworthycomputing/archive/2012/01/05/cloud-computing-requires-transparency.aspx

Los 10 productos que debes descargar son:

• SmallBasic
• XNA Game Studio 4.0
• Virtual PC
• Expression Studio Ultimate
• Kodu Game Lab
• Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta
• Mathematics
• SQL Server (Express o 2008 R2 Developer)
• Windows Phone SDK
• Visual Studio 2010 (Express o Professional)

Como prueba de las descargas deberás enviar a la dirección de correo dreamspark@live.com.mx, con el título "Descarga y Gana", un printscreen mostrando a pantalla completa la ventana de "System", que se encuentra en el Panel de Control -> System and Security -> System (alternativamente puedes ir a Start y dar click derecho en "Computer" y seleccionar "Properties"). Encima de esta pantalla, en la esquina superior derecha, deberá encontrarse el Download Manager de DreamSpark mostrando las 10 descargas al 100%, de la siguiente manera:

Una vez que recibamos tu printscreen, te enviaremos a tu correo el acceso para que puedas empezar a capacitarte para presentar el examen de certificación 070-640. Si deseas ahorrar en el costo del examen de certificación, te recomendamos pedir el examen 072-640, que es exactamente el mismo examen con la misma validez en el mundo profesional pero con un costo especial reducido para estudiantes. Para solicitarlo debes ir al centro Prometric de tu preferencia y presentar una identificación válida de estudiante.

Prometric es la entidad que aplicará el examen. Para solicitar tu exámen debes ir a https://prometric.com/Microsoft/default.htm. Da click en el banner de Start, selecciona "Schedule an Appointment", selecciona "México" en el país y da click en Next, Selecciona en Client: "Microsoft" y selecciona ya sea "Microsoft (070, 071, 074, 075, 076, 078, 083, MBx)" si deseas presentar el examen 070-640 o "Microsoft Academic (072, 094)" si deseas presentar el examen con costo de estudiante  072-640. Da click en Next.

• Si seleccionaste el examen 072 verás el aviso que indica que este tipo de exámenes solo se aplicarán a estudiantes y profesores actualmente afiliados a una institución académica y que para apartar el examen deberás presentar un número válido de identificación académica (matrícula o número de nómina) y el nombre de la institución académica en una forma y presentar una identificación válida de estudiante o profesor junto con una identificación con fotografía para verificar tu identidad el día del examen. Da click en Next y selecciona el examen "072-640 - TS: Windows  Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring". Selecciona el lenguaje de tu preferencia para presentar el examen. El examen tiene un costo de $55 USD. Da click en Next.
• Si seleccionaste el examen 070 , da click en Next y selecciona el examen "070-640 - TS: Windows  Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring". Selecciona el lenguaje de tu preferencia para presentar el examen. El examen tiene un costo de $100 USD. Da click en Next.

Existen 40 centros Prometric en México. Selecciona el más cercano a tu localidad. El siguiente paso es loguearse o crear un nuevo usuario. Si estás creando un nuevo usuario debes asegurarte de proveer una dirección de email válida (toda la información relativa a tu examen será enviada a esa dirección de correo). Una vez que te hayas logueado elige la fecha y hora del examen y da click en Next. Revisa la información de pago. Valida tu dirección de email y has click en el radio button "I Agree" y da click en "Commit Registration". A continuación aparecerá una página de confirmación que deberás imprimir, ya que es la pruena de que ya has calendarizado el examen.

La fecha límite para enviar tu printscreen es el 30 de Junio, 2012.

¡¡¡MUCHA SUERTE!!! =)