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Project Hawaii Intern XAPfest contest winners announced

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“Microsoft has held a contest to see what kind of apps students could dream up using Mango phones and MSR’s Hawaii Services, which include a Relay Service, to connect devices on different networks, OCR in the Cloud, returning text for uploaded images, Speech to text, cloud computing using Azure, cloud storage in a virtual SQL database, mapping and identification using Windows Live ID.

The top eight apps were:

8 Tracks Player (Gary Roumanis) – Beautiful app for the 8 Tracks music service. Makes great use of Windows Phone’s panoramas. Most amazing was that Gary, frustrated by the ongoing, months-long wait for an Android version, created this app in two months in his spare time.

Breadcrumbs (Shreyas Thiagarajasubramanian) – Helps people discover more about their surroundings by showing tags (images, audio, video, text) for places and locations. Now I can see real-time pictures from the spots I’m thinking of checking out.

Hands Free Cook (Roberto Sonnino and Ian Christopher) – Following a recipe on a phone with dirty “kitchen hands” while cooking isn’t something most of us would want to do. This app uses speech recognition to control the app and then reads recipes & instructions out loud so I can keep my phone free of kitchen grease and grit.

Headshot (Julia Schwarz) – I’ve tried taking self-portraits with my phone and often have to do a few takes to get it lined up properly. Not anymore. With this app I can get it perfect the first time due to the app’s facial recognition and audio feedback.

Music Cloud 7 (Andrei Borodin) – Enables music to play on multiple phones at the same time. Imagine attending a party or event with everyone’s phone playing in sync. Gives a whole new definition to “surround sound.”

Optical Search (Marvin Cheng) – Recognizes all the words in a picture and then gives you the ability to pick & choose which words to use in a search. Look up something in a textbook or get help with a crossword puzzle.

“Pictionary” (Tara Balakrishnan) – This app uses Hawaii services to enable multiple people from anywhere to connect in real-time for a game of drawing and guessing. Guessers type their answers for the drawer to respond to. To top it off: Tara was the only high-school student in the finals.

Ringify (Alex Weingart and Matt Asplund) – Takes advantage of Mango’s new custom ringtone feature and allows you to quickly make ringtones out of your own music. Select the song and the section of the song you want as your ringtone. My phone has been ringing like a G6 recently.

Headshot was the ultimate winner and the team won a trip to Hawaii.

The full event can be seen on Channel9.

Any of the apps appeal to our readers? Let us know below.

Thanks News Hound for the tip.”

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PhoneGap HTML5 development framework comes to Windows Phone 7.5

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“Microsoft has worked with Nitobi to bring their PhoneGap HTML5 developer framework to Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.

PhoneGap, it’s an open source mobile framework that enables developers to build applications targeting multiple platforms, by using standard web technologies (HTML5, CSS and JavaScript).

On Windows Phone 7 this provides another option besides Silverlight and XNA for developers to bring their apps to the platform.

The current beta version includes most of the basic features, and includes JavaScript APIs to use Windows Phone Mango features like:

Access Device Information (UDDI and stuff)

Add and search Contacts

Connection status (network / wifi connection status)

Alerts/Notification (alert and confirm)

Media Capture (Image and Audio)

Camera

Accelerometer

Geolocation

A recent survey by Appcelerator & IDC’s of mobile developers has shown 66% of developers interesting in developing on the HTML5 platform, and this framework will ease access for those developers to the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Read more at Nitobi here.

Via the Windows Team Blog.”

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