David K 
When Microsoft created its Marketplace it permitted developers to distribute an unlimited number of paid apps and only 5 free apps, after which it was $20/app submission. Well that changed today according to the Marketplace Developer Newsletter: During the past months we have been working hard to improve our overall Windows Phone Marketplace experience based … Read more
Microsoft as finally come forward to explain what went wrong with the update, who is impacted and where things are headed. IA few noteworthy items: everyone will get the update but it may be days or even months before this happens…ugh. Here it is in full, with a few items highlighted in red by me: … Read more
You call it Reversi, I’ll call it Othello, but whatever you call it, it’s a classic game. The latest version to hit the Marketplace is called Faceted Reversi and it has a simple description (that doesn’t do it justice): “Play reversi against other people, either on the same phone or on different pone. Play someone … Read more
I just read this post at The Huffington Post which talks about the Doodle 4 Google competition. If you’re not aware, Doodle 4 Google is a competition that Google holds annually where students from K-12 can provide doodles of the Google logo and the winners can earn college scholarships and school grants and even have … Read more
This weeks Windows phone 7 Xbox Live games just hit Marketplace. it’s Deer Hunter 3D and Zombie Attack! 2. These are some pretty nice titles. Deer Hunter 3D is, of course, a hunting game made with 3D visuals. It contains multiple animals with realistic behaviors, 27 shooting locations and of course achievements. It’s $5 but … Read more
Krashlander is currently the #1 top selling non-Xbox game in the Windows Phone Marketplace and now, it’s been released as a free/ad based version for all of those too cheap hesitant to pay the $.99 for the ad free version. It’s identical to the paid version otherwise, including a level a week update. I hate … Read more
According to Engadget, Google has stripped Facebook contacts from integrating into the contacts list of the Nexus S after the most recent update. And this was intentionally done by Google. Before today, if you went into your contacts you’d see your local phone contacts as well as your Facebook contacts. Those Facebook contacts were not … Read more
This looks like the first of a series of Microsoft ads related to Windows Phone 7 where Microsoft pins WP7 against a generic device and shows how the device works. I like that it’s real use and not just ‘fluff’ talk. What do you think? Windows Phone 7 ‘Real Time Trials’ HD Commercial from Jamal … Read more
So this little pre-NoDo update is being distributed and it seems to be a mess across the world for those ‘lucky’ enough to have received the update. At a minimum, it affects Samsung devices and x64 computers. There are some thoughts that it’s related to Zune software not properly updating on the PC or the … Read more
Sprint is trying to get some Twitter buzz going and has asked people to guess what their next phone would be. It has a hub for gaming, music, pictures and videos. So that’s almost definitely a Windows Phone since that’s where the term ‘hub’ is used in Windows phone marketing. Of course, Music and Videos … Read more
Qt is the Symbian platform. The one that’s now headed towards death as Nokia moves to Windows Phone. And of course, Nokia and Microsoft have hopes that all of those Qt devs will becomes Windows Phone devs over the next year. Well, Necessitas from BogDan would allow you to package Qt apps and deploy them … Read more
Golf Battle 3D is a cross platform multi-player golf (type) game that’s already available for Android and is coming to every other platform. By every other platform, I mean that it’s in review for the iPhone, coming soon to the iPad, coming soon to Symbian, in review for Bada and coming soon to Windows Phones. … Read more