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Windows Phone Presentations By RedBit

Mark Arteaga will be delivering two presentations on Windows Phone 7 at Silicon Halton and the Metro Toronto .NET User Group Developing for the Third Screen – Windows Phone 7 For the longest time Microsoft has been talking about their “Three Screens and the Cloud” strategy but did not really have a compelling mobile story. .. read more

On January 6th, 2011, posted in: Events, RedBit by Tags: ,

RedBit To Deliver Windows Phone 7 Sessions for Microsoft Canada

RedBit founder, Mark Arteaga, will be delivering Windows Phone 7 Developer sessions on Dec 2 in Mississauga and Dec 9 in Toronto 2010 as part of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Briefing held by Microsoft Canada.  The event will cover developing for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight and XNA.  Mark will be present the Developing .. read more

On November 17th, 2010, posted in: Events, RedBit by 1 Comment

Possibilities of Open Data in Federal Governments

Wednesday I spoke at OpenGovWest BC about one of the success stories of OpenDataLondon, where I shared with the audience in a small case study like format (challenges and overcoming them) the success of LondonTrash. Afterwards, a few of the attendees wondered what were the possibilities of using data from the Federal Government. Well, I .. read more

On November 12th, 2010, posted in: Open Data, Projects by Tags: , ,

RedBit Helps Track Pollution in Canada

As part of the Open Lab (with RedBit as the technical lead), we are happy to announce a new the initial release of Emitter.  Emitter is an online website that takes open data provided by Environment Canada and makes this data easy to read.  Currently the data is not in the friendliest format and doesn’t .. read more

On November 11th, 2010, posted in: Open Data, Projects, RedBit by

OGDI, bring joy to developers everywhere.

Recently I had the pleasure of working on the project Emitter.ca that ties two things very important to me together: open government data, and the environment.  It was the way in which we interacted with the data that I truly loved… As a developer, you know you’ve had this experience: Some government agency announces that they .. read more

On November 10th, 2010, posted in: Technology by

RedBit Presenting At Frist Windows Phone 7 User Group Meeting

On Tuesday November 16th 2010, Mark Arteaga will be presenting an overview on developing for Windows Phone 7 at the first Windows Phone 7 Toronto User Group meeting.  The topics covered will be Overview of the developer platform Marketplace and deploying apps What types of software can be delivered for the phone  There will also .. read more

On November 9th, 2010, posted in: Events, RedBit by

RedBit Delivers The Globe and Mail For Windows Phone 7

It’s been a busy few months for the RedBit team but today we get to announce the work we have been doing.  In addition to MTV News another project we have been working in is The Globe and Mail for Windows Phone 7.   The Globe and Mail is Canada’s largest national newspaper and have a .. read more

On November 8th, 2010, posted in: Projects, RedBit by

RedBit Delivers MTV News for Windows Phone 7

Today I’m happy to announce that over the past few months RedBit has been hard at work with MTV and getting MTV News ready for Windows Phone 7 North American launch.  RedBit is one of the few partners able to successfully deliver for their customers on this new and exciting platforms that is sure to .. read more

On November 8th, 2010, posted in: Projects, RedBit by 1 Comment

New RedBit Site Launches

Today is an exciting day!  Not only is it the launch of Windows Phone 7 in North America, but it’s also the day we launch our new website!!  Our new website now tells a better story of what RedBit actually does and what we have done for customers.   We can now proudly display our customer .. read more

On November 8th, 2010, posted in: RedBit by