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Nokia Institute of Tech Releases Another Great Windows Phone Game–Incredible Circus

If you recall, the Nokia Institute of Tech is independent of Nokia but founded with their money. Anyway, another great game just hit Marketplace. It’s call Incredible Circus and you need to get the circus performer to bounce off the trampolines to the end. It’s really neat and plays beautifully. This was originally a Symbian [...]

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Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Gets a Lumia 900–Should Go Well With His iPhones and Androids

The blogs are on fire over this tweet from the co-founder of Apple: Personally I think it’s neat but we should all know that he uses an iPhone as his primary devices and has Android devices as well. He’s a tech whore. He’s fired shots at Apple in the past and undoubtedly he will have [...]

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The Chevron Experiment is Over–Sanctioned Unlocking for Windows Phones is Done For Now

The concept of a sanctioned way to sideload apps seemed like a huge windfall for all involved. Let people sideload things, like apps that let you take screenshots for example. Some of the need for this were reduced when the beta testing was made available since devs could give beta downloads to third parties without [...]

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The $.99 Windows Phone Xbox Live Deal is Permanent

Microsoft recently announced that there were 6 Xbox Live titles for Windows Phones that were being dropped to $.99. Seems like a deal you need to jump on but not quite. It’s actually a permanent reduction. We were told “This is a permanent reduction designed to provide more options for mobile gamers.” That’s awesome. These [...]

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Microsoft Confirms Marketplace Growing Pains–Fixes In The Pipeline

There have been complaints about the amount of time it is taking for new apps to appear in Marketplace and also the responsive of AppHub among developers. Well Microsoft knows about this. Apparently, the number of apps, developers and markets are rapidly expanding and they have a plan to scale Marketplace better but it won’t [...]

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Microsoft Roadmap Leaks – Show Windows Phones Future

ZDNet has provided leaked screenshots of Microsoft’s roadmap which are authentic. While the roadmap shows IE10 and Office 15, I bet our readers are most interested in Windows Phones. So here it is: The square box means ‘general availability’ and it’s pegged towards the start of Q3 of 2012 which lines up with previous rumors. [...]

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Time to Register For Best Buy/Nokia’s Behind the Tiles Events

Time to sign up to register reserve a spot for Best Buy’s Behind the Tiles events. What can you expect there? Join us for a chance to win a Nokia Lumia 900 at an exclusive Windows Phone event series Register now and get a chance to win the highly coveted Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone [...]

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Got a New Nokia Windows Phone? Nokia’s Smart Start Assistance is Available For Free

Just a reminder that if you’re a new Nokia Lumia owner (in the US) and you need help getting your phone up and running, Nokia has a program called Smart Start for you. Just go to their website and sign up.  Here’s how they describe the service: We know how excited you are to use [...]

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PocketCam Lets You Use Your Windows Phone as a Wireless Webcam For Your Computer

PocketCam is now live in Marketplace and it lets you use your Windows Phone as a wireless webcam for your computer for video and sound.  So you can use it for Skype, gChat, etc. Here are the details: PocketCam lets you use your Windows Phone device as a wireless webcam for your Windows-based computer or [...]

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Nokiagate Shows Nokia Stands Behind Its Products– Compare That to Antennaegate

I think this sums it all up: The one week response by Nokia is incredible speed as well as giving a credit that makes the phone free even for users that may not be impacted and it’s a short term solution. The Nokia issue is a software bug which is relatively minor compared to the [...]

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