Do you have a Windows Mobile phone? Are you ready to Rock???

Now it's time to Rock with your Mobile. Magmic Games will take mobility to the new level!

Get you're own http://www.winplay.com/game/GuitarHeroMobile.

Guitar Hero® is now available on mobile! Rock out anytime, anywhere with this rhythm-based, three button game that stays true to the original.
Rock out anytime, anywhere with this rhythm-based, three button game that stays true to the original. Open with 15 jamming tracks, all taken from the Guitar Hero console series.
· Grow your set list with 3 new songs monthly*
· Play through 3 venues each with 4 set songs and an encore
· Shred as your favorite characters on four authentic Gibson guitars, in three killer venues
· Unlock guitars, earn achievements and break records
· Hit the right notes to drive the crowd wild with star power!

The initial game comes with these 15 tracks from some of rock’s greatest acts:

(1) Santana - Black Magic Woman
(2) Wolfmother - Woman
(3) AFI - Miss Murder
(4) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss
(5) Alice Cooper - School's Out
(6) Pat Benatar - Hit Me with Your Best Shot
(7) Van Halen - You Really Got Me
(8) KISS - Strutter
(9) Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
(10) Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin on A Hole
(11) Matchbook Romance - Monsters
(12) Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
(13) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
(14) The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
(15) Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane

Useimmat varmaankin jo tietävät, miten helppoa puhelinsovellusten tekeminen on nykyään, kun käytössä on Windows Mobile puhelimet. Enää ei tarvitse olla monimutkaisia kehitysympäristöjä ja monen vuoden ammattikokemusta sovelluskehitykseen. Pelkkä kiinnostus ja läjä esimerkkejä jo riittää ja heti alkaa valmista syntymään.
Nyt kun yhä useammissa Windows puhelimissa on sisäänrakennetut GPS paikantimet ja puhelimiin tehtävät sovellukset ovat helppoja tehdä Visual Studiolla ja .NET:llä, on aika alkaa toteuttamaan niitä visioita, joita kukin on aiemmin mielessään vain kuvitellut.

Käytännön tarve sai Kari Ruuskasen tarttumaan Visual Studioon ja tutustumaan, miten paikkatietoa hyödyntävän mobiiliohjelman voisi helpoiten tehdä. Ohjelmointi kun ei työkuvaan kuulunut ollenkaan, mutta tarve ja visio sovelluksen toiminnoista oli selkeänä, piti vain ryhtyä tuumasta toimeen.
Tässä esimerkissä mennään läpi Kari Ruuskasen toteutus, jossa hyödynnetään niin tekstiviestejä, GPS paikkatietoa kuin Live karttasivun generointia - puhelimessa!!
Puhelin seuraa missä omistaja kulkee ja laatii siitä mm. Live Maps html-sivun, jota voi katsella selaimella.
Sovellus on säädettävissä myös siten, että kun puhelin siirtyy aiemmin määritetystä alueesta toiseen, lähtee siitä SMS viesti toiseen puhelimeen ja näin ollen tiedetään kokoajan, millä alueella puhelin on.

Lataa projektin koodit itsellesi, tutustu niihin ja hyödynnä niinkuin haluat.

[Hey Forina] Whether you have a Microsoft smartphone or Pocket PC, you can now download a free interface that makes your phone look like a little Vista computer. The interface comes with some pre-installed background images, or you can use your own by pressing the "Action" key. On the right side of the screen a sidebar displays, showing a very Vista-like clock, plus the current weather, a battery indicator, and a signal strength indicator.

The main screen is called the "Start Screen," which is a heads-up display that shows your missed calls, text messages, appointments, news, and more.

You can then browse into other screens to see details on the weather, read the news, view your message history and missed calls, and access your program launcher.

You can see more images of these screens and other functions as well as download the program from here if you would like to try it out.

Have you ever been in a situation where you just can't take an incoming call? Right after that you send a SMS message to notify the caller that you'll be calling back later. Finnish mobile enthusiast Aali Alikoski decided to write a small app for this kind of scenario.

This is a very good example of how easily you can do your own applications for mobile phones. You can download and freely use the codes from http://www.codeplex.com/SMSNotifier. Watch the introductory video of the application and take a short peek at the code project itself.

My colleagues at Microsoft Research asked me to spread the word about an announcement they made on Monday during their External Research & Program’s Faculty Summit. Faculty Summit is the premier event hosted by ER&P for academic researchers and professors to meet with Microsoft researchers and product group engineers for in-depth presentations and discussions of computing problems and research trends. The conference brings together approximately 350 academics from 175 leading institutions worldwide.

During the Summit, Microsoft Research outlined the research agenda for the next year by announcing 11 new RFPs. These are research grants open to anyone, two of which focus on healthcare (outlined below).

Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare

Goals:

· Explore applications and evolution of the cell phone for healthcare services.

· Incubate, develop, and disseminate to the worldwide academic research community new healthcare services prototypes and mobile technology tools.

Solution Statement: What medical applications are relevant, worldwide, for ‘smart’ mobile phones (application and web-enabled) in rural, and urban, communities? What are the appropriate services and infrastructures to be created to provide affordable and accessible healthcare services?

Personalized Medicine: Improving Genome-Wide Association Studies

Goal: Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) is an area that would greatly benefit from having computing improvements for researchers. Focus areas for improvement include:

• Improvement of HapMap (tools for data collection, etc.)

• Standardization of genetic data collection, semantics and DB schema

• Improvement of Algorithms (particularly for in multi-allele disorders) accuracy, performance (e.g., parallelization, HPC)

• Genomic Data Visualization

Solution Statement: Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) are defined by the NIH as any study of genetic variation across the entire human genome that is designed to identify genetic associations with observable traits (such as blood pressure or weight), or the presence or absence of a disease or condition. GWAS are laying the groundwork for personalized medicine. What is needed to put this data as quickly as possible into the hands of a broad number of researchers so that they can advance the state of the art in this area.

If you’re interested in any more detail, please contact Tami Begasse: tami.begasse@microsoft.com.

Here’s your chance to help change the world in healthcare.

Good Luck!

In previous Blog entries I've talked about the next wave in remote physiological monitoring. Mobile technologies, devices and web services will soon allow us to remotely monitor patients suffering from chronic diseases or elderly people living alone in their homes. The devices and technologies will be easy to use and ultimately quite affordable as the devices and services become commoditizied.

One of my colleagues on Microsoft's Channel 10, Laura Foy, recently produced a short video with David Bychkov, CEO of a company called Exmocare. Exmocare is the first of what will surely be a number of companies offering the kinds of devices and services I've been discussing on this Blog and elsewhere. Their Bluetooth enabled Exmocare watch can connect seamlessly with a Windows Mobile Smartphone, Pocket PC, home computer, Xbox, Media Center PC or other device.

It continuously records heart rate, heart rate variability, galvanic skin response, and movement. Using various algorithms it determines parameters of physical and emotional wellness and activity and reports these via Bluetooth to a Smartphone or other device linked to the Internet. Medical personnel or family members can log into a secure web site to receive reports on the person being monitored. The system can also be set to send out alerts to those monitoring someone via e-mail, IM, or text messaging should the watch detect physiological readings or activity levels that are out of range.

This is just the beginning of a new era of technologies that will help us extend care into the home and bring peace of mind to those of us concerned about aging parents who live far away. Unified Communication technologies will augment these services with on-demand video and multimedia conferencing from a Smartphone, notebook or desktop PC, Xbox, or digital television.

While the first devices to hit the market will be a bit bulky and expensive, they will be arguably less expensive than the cost of live-in helpers and caregivers while providing a sense of safety and connectedness for those being monitored.
 
Be on the lookout for many more devices and web services that will facilitate health and wellness programs in the home and connect us to medical professionals and other experts. As an aging baby boomer, I take a great deal of comfort in knowing these technologies will be ready for me and my family in the very near future. There is also a virtually unlimited potential for these devices and services to meet the healthcare needs of emerging and underserved markets around the world.

Bill Crounse, MD   Worldwide Health Director    Microsoft Corporation