The Silverlight platform is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash, allowing developer to write rich media applications for the web or for computers. And Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight designed to run Silverlight apps on Linux. Now the developers of Moonlight are working to port the project to Android. That means you may be able to run some Silverlight apps on Android eventually,… Read more »

Want to watch YouTube on your shiny new Windows Phone 7 handset? You can… but since Google hasn’t released an official app and because Microsoft didn’t bake support into the operating system, you’re going to have to rely on a third party app. A few days ago HTC released a free app for anyone with a Windows Phone 7 device built by the handset maker…. Read more »

Microsoft has officially released Silverlight for the Symbian smartphone operating system. You can download Silverlight from the Nokia Ovi Store. Right now, it officially supports Nokia S60 5th Edition devices including the Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800 XPressMusic. Silverlight is sort of Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash. It allows users to access rich media content in a web browser. It’s already available for Mac and… Read more »

Windows Phone 7 Series may not support full fledged multitasking. But thanks to Silverlight, it can support some pretty nifty 3D graphics effects. A group of developers showed off some neat, but mostly pointless tricks at the Tech Ed India conference recently. The first tech demo shows a way to visualize all of your open web browser tabs in a 3D cube which you can… Read more »

Microsoft is expected to launch Windows Phone 7 Series later this year. And when it does, there will be third party applications available from some major players in the mobile space, including Pandora, Fandango, Foursquare, EA Mobile, the Associated Press, Seesmic, Shazam, and Sling. Of course, all of those companies have apps for other platforms including iPhone and Android, so these apps are hardly going… Read more »

With all the talk about Adobe Flash coming to Android, Windows Mobile, WebOS, and other mobile platforms, it’s easy to forget that Microsoft has a Flash competitor called Silverlight. And it looks like the beta version of Silverlight for the Symbian smartphone operating system is almost ready to go. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley spotted a download page for Silverlight beta for Symbian on Thursday. The… Read more »