Please register for the meetup on Monday night.  Slalom, @codevoyeur and foursquare will showcase mobile technologies.

Slalom will cover the work that they have done for InterContinental to build out a Windows Phone 7 PriorityClub app.  The app uses location based services to find a hotel near you and book a reservation using your mobile phone. Slalom will also showcase the NYC MTA with augmented reality and location based services.  You can vote for the submission every day!

Slalom Consulting has won several accolades for our mobility practice including:

· Top Mobile Practice – by Everything Channel.

· The Flashies! – Mobile App of the Year nomination in collaboration with GroupHealth.  This was the first app of its kind to integrate medical patient data on a mobile device.

· Microsoft Partner of the Year – Top honors for Online Services Solution Partner of the Year.

· Webby Award nomination – Best Use of GPS or Location Technology nomination for a game changing indoor geo-aware application completed with the American Museum of Natural History

Yalla Apps is now giving away Fable 3 or Halo:Reach Games for XBOX 360® (or PC) to the first 100 members that publish an App to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace via the Yalla Apps portal. And that’s not it – the developer who publishes the best app of the month during May and June will also win a Windows Phone 7!

More details about the Yalla App-a-thon competition can be found on http://www.facebook.com/yallaappsand on the GCC blog : Yalla App-a-thon – Publish an App and get an XBOX 360® game!

At the Web Camp event in Dubai, Ronald Widha presented a session on creating cutting edge websites for phones, slates.  It was a well designed and thought out topic, and very inspirational from a designer viewpoint.  You can watch the video and also read more about high adoption of the Windows Phone 7 platform.

Creating Cutting Edge Website for Phone, Slate and Beyond from Ronald Widha on Vimeo.

A summary of the session “The process of creating a website now always start with a question on figuring out the devices you want to support for; PCs, mobile phones and/or slate devices. Each of these devices may have different screen sizes, capabilities etc. For simplicity, designer/developer often chooses to build dedicated websites for each one of the platform which often leads to maintenance nightmare.
This talk showed how to design and develop a dynamic website for the various platforms using Responsive Design techniques. We're starting up the process with WebMatrix and transitioning to Visual Studio 2010 as we progress. We touched on Html5, CSS3, Razor, Entity Framework 4 and C#.”

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