David K 
Microsoft has been keeping a steady stream of apps coming and two more official apps hit the Marketplace today. First up in Rise4Fun: Discover and play with the latest software engineering tools from Microsoft Research right in your phone! Rise4fun features 15+ advanced tools that deal with software testing, verification, concurrency, empirical studies, theorem proving … Read more
We gave you a sneak peak of Terra Explorer about a week ago and now it’s live, for free, in Marketplace. This is the search engine on steroids to remind you. Here’s the official description: Terra Explorer revolutionizes the mobile web browsing experience for Windows Phone 7. It introduces search as a central theme in … Read more
If you don’t know, Imagewind is a website (that’s Silverlight based) that gives you real time images of what images are being posted on Twitter. Well there’s now an Imagewind app for Windows Phones and it’s free. I was fortunate enough to beta test it out and in its final iteration it’s really a great … Read more
Microsoft has continued to roll out apps for Windows phones (37 to date) with the latest two being an app geared towards men called Onit and a Microsoft Management Summit 2011 guide app. MSN Onit has a broader appeal as a guys app. Here’s their description: The guy’s guide to girls, cars, gadgets, fitness and … Read more
It’s time to bring some closure to the Surfy story from today. Brandon Watson of Microsoft has been nice enough to leave a comment on our earlier post as follows: I wanted to add something here, as I run the developer platform team for Windows Phone. There was a tester error while reviewing “Surfy” where … Read more
Earlier we discussed the submission of an alternative web browser that failed Microsoft’s certification. Brandon Watson has since stated that there’s miscommunication as to the rejection (and we’ll update you on when he provides that). But, want to see the app in action? It’s called Surfy and here it is: Here’s the feature list: • … Read more
If you read the WP7 application certifications you will not see a prohibition against alternative web browsers so you would think they would be permissible (provided they otherwise followed the app submission guidelines). Well that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from blocking a web browser alternative. Daniel Vaughan and Katka Vaughan had their app rejected because: Reason … Read more
Our friends over at 1800PocketPC and BestWP7Games have released their official Windows Phone app, and of course it’s free. It’s got a pretty neat format that mirrors the look of the Windows Phone tiles UI and gives you their news in a feed or you can get the latest apps, game reviews or game news. … Read more
There’s an interesting bit of a story that’s playing out since a developer named Daniel Tuppeny issued a post about how he loves Windows Phone 7 but was considering leaving it. He actually got a call from Brandon Watson and Ben Lower of Microsoft. So you can read it in full, here’s his original post … Read more
If you’re a Windows Phone developer you undoubtedly keep an eye on the revenue of your apps. Well a new app lets you pin a live tile to your Windows Phone home screen with your ad revenue. Here’s the apps description: Developing ad-supported Windows Phone 7 apps? Show the week’s mobile app ad revenue in … Read more
In case you’ve missed it, this weeks Windows Phone Marketplace deal is for Rocket Riot which is reduced to $3 now. Here’s the official trailer in case you missed it and now, I’m going to download the trial cause I actually waited on this one but it does look fun: And while we’re at it, … Read more
As expected, Full House Poker is now available for Windows Phones for $3 with a free trial. This is a companion to the Xbox 360 version but of course, you can play it as a standalone. Here’s their description: Stack your chips, put on your poker face and hit the table with Full House Poker, … Read more