David K 
TalkBox is a cross-platform voice messaging, text, photo sharing, etc app with apps already available for iPhone and Android and now a Windows Phone version is set to be released. Check out this new video they jut released: A beta has been available and it looks like they’re about to set the final version available … Read more
The idea of taking your phone with you and just adding water if you run out of juice had been a pipe dream until now. At the end of this summer REI will carry the PowerTrekk. It has a small metallic powder and by adding water you can charge a phone or anything else with … Read more
Microsoft has announced that they are moving to becoming carbon neutral as of July 1 for all of their “direct operations including data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings.” This is a combination of reduction in use, utilizing green power and being accountable for their carbon emissions. On top of this, internally … Read more
You may not know the name Random Salad Games LLC but one of their two devs is Jake Poznanski who is a top tier game developer. They have 19 games for Windows Phones and they’re all 4-5 stars and have thousands of reviews (and downloads). Their latest release is Hearts Deluxe and as usual, their … Read more
EA’s Feed Me Oil is now available for Windows phones for $.99 with a trial. Looks like it’s sized for the iPhone with black bars on the sides but I can live with that. When hunger strikes, strike oil! Welcome to a weird and wonderful place where the land is literally alive — and it’s … Read more
Mcirosoft didn’t go into detail but they did state “today the CinemaNow app in the U.S. will be offer instant access to an extensive library of premium video content for rental and purchase, featuring new release movies and TV shows with no subscription required.“ Seems like it now streams instead of downloading all upfront and … Read more
Nice to see another super popular title make its way over. And yes, the original geoDefense has been available as an Xbox Live title but now, according to Playxbla, Swarm will be available. geoDefense Swarm takes all the dizzying vectorized visuals, vexing challenges and highly kinetic addictive gameplay from the original, and changes the equation … Read more
Microsoft has 17 titles on sale now that range from PC, Xbox and a few Kinect titles as well. Pretty good prices though if you’re looking for these titles. You can check it out here.
The Smoked by a Windows Phone campaign seems to have been quite a success based on the numbers. Even if you thought it was a gimmick, it got people’s attention and showed what the phone can do. Microsoft has some stats to share about it: 8,000,000+ The total number of views of Smoked by Windows … Read more
The only caveat (for now) is that you need to buy it from a Microsoft Store…that’s probably $200 in gas for most of us. Here’s the early termination fee schedule: Great promotion. Now sell it in Best Buy like that. Here’s the link.
Unwired View has this excerpt from Nokia’s Elop (which is more detailed than the earlier transcript reported): So, thank you for your question about Skype. Indeed, Microsoft did buy the Skype company as part of the ecosystem that comes with Windows Phone and Windows and so forth, so that’s quite correct. The feedback from operators … Read more
Elison Lugue took the Stormtrooper white Lumia 900 and did it up right. Well played sir. via @WindowsPhone