Telstra and Fairfax yesterday unveiled applications for Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Phone 7 system for smartphones at the software giant’s annual Tech.Ed event on the Gold Coast.
Telstra and Fairfax yesterday unveiled applications for Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Phone 7 system for smartphones at the software giant’s annual Tech.Ed event on the Gold Coast which was attended by scantily clad meter maids.
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Some 2700 IT professionals and software developers are attending the event. Devices using Win Phone 7 are due to reach the market later this year.
Telstra revealed it is in the final stages of developing what it calls a TelstraOne hub, designed to deliver unmetered news, weather and sport, displayed live on “media tiles” on the display.
David Glover, “developer evangelist” at Microsoft Australia, showed a mobile application in development for Fairfax’s Domain, which will enable Win Phone 7 users to search for property across Australia.
– It wasn’t all straitlaced business at Tech.Ed. ZDNet and Delimiter’s Renai LeMay reports that Microsoft has apologised to any attendees who were scandalised by its use of “meter maid” models as promotional assistants at the first-night bash, explaining that it didn’t know the maids would turn up wearing not much more than itsy-bitsy spangly gold bikinis. Such a scandal.
