All Windows Phone devices have a built-in Assisted GPS (aGPS), which is used by various phone applications including maps, camera, and search (to provide location-based search results). Developers can access location information on Windows Phone by using the System.Device.Location namespace, which is supported in .NET 4 and later. The GeoCoordinateWatcher class supplies location data

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Who wants some more app hints?! Yes, we all do and thanks to Mike, author of our weekly Pinworthy column, we have some great ones in store on Windows Phone Radio 15. Hear from Mike live and direct about his picks for the week as well as a couple tips from our own Matt Akers, like iBlast

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Now that I have kids, business travel takes a whole new meaning as I’m not just worrying about me and my schedule, but I have two young daughters who continue to need my time and attention, even when I’m away. The one thing I want most is for my kids to know that I’m still connected to them, even if

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Welcome back, everyone. It was a solid week for Marketplace; I found it little tougher to winnow the 400-odd new entries down to five. Check out my latest picks and tell me about your own new discoveries.

A few folks have asked about my methodology. It’s pretty simple: I pour over all the new apps that land in Marketplace during a

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Lenovo’s black, boxy ThinkPads have long been the gold standard for enterprise grade laptops. Their design and reliability is iconic, and it’s that black boxiness that has garnered millions of die-hard loyalists. When most people think Lenovo, they think ThinkPad – which means they also think “tough”, “fast”, and “ergonomic”. Most people don’t think

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Windows Live is entrusted with safekeeping the email, contacts, photos, documents, and more that over 500 million people bring to our services each month. Today is worldwide Data Privacy Day, and we’re observing it by focusing on a critical way to help keep your data private: protecting it from account hijackers.

Over the last year, we have

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A few weeks ago, we looked at the benefits of using HDMI to connect your PC to your HDTV or monitor. Today, we look at a few things you can do to make sure your picture is as sharp and clear as possible, with a full, rich range of colors.

While there are all sorts of recommendations

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Our friends over on the Office Blogs have just posted a handy rundown for students on how to take class notes on your phone and sync them to Windows Live SkyDrive—perfect for those moments when you’re stuck in class (or a meeting) without a laptop.  Check out the post.

Their post also made me curious: Where else

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Today as part of our Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2011 earnings release, we announced that Windows 7 has sold over 300 million licenses to-date.

To put that in perspective, 300 million is roughly the combined number of households in North American and in Europe! Or, to put it another way, if you lined up 300 million Windows

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Need to build your Windows 7 deployment knowledge?  Looking to for some deployment tips and tricks that can help save you time (and headaches)?  Join Steve Campbell, Microsoft Services, Deployment Architect and myself at 9am (PST) on February 2 for a webinar: “Windows 7 Deployment – An Insider’s Guide.”   

During this dialog, we’ll share background on the deployment tools that

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