Marti M 
Last June, my local independent TV station ran an article on their website about people falling for “Windows Tech Support” scams. These are the ones where they call you up out of the blue, and say, “Your computer is reporting it has a virus. Please go to such-and-such a website, and we’ll help you clean … Read more
All I want before Christmas is to watch NORAD track Santa, and now with an official Windows Phone app, I can! The app has a counter, information on how the tradition started, and email link, and video links to the YouTube videos from previous years. Hopefully on Christmas Eve, this year’s videos will be there. … Read more
I am an early adopter when it comes to some technology, very notably my smartphone in the last 2 itterations. I got the HTC Surround on the first Windows Phone 7 release day, and I got my new Nokia Lumia 920 also on the Windows Phone 8 release day. My husband, not so much. You … Read more
Initial rumors of the WP 7.8 update had it on retail devices in December, then others in the first quarter of 2013. Well, if you’ve been around a while (and if you’re reading us, you probably have), then you’ll not be surprised when I say that it looks like the folks at XDA couldn’t wait. … Read more
That pretty much says it all. It wasn’t ready at launch, but on the next day. At first I got the “Attention required” message, but the 2nd tap got it. I suppose the Store was overwhelmed! I’ve now started the app, and of course the first thing you get is the Terms & Conditions. … Read more
After getting home, now the fun begins, right? (It’s 9:10pm and I still haven’t eaten, by the way.) Email set up was incredibly easy. Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live all are happy. I didn’t have important messages, all my read emails are copied in Outlook. I haven’t used Zune streaming since the free trial 2 years … Read more
The Mobility Digest staff’s email has been all-WP today (okay, well, more than usual), and that’s to be expected as all of the Windows fans run off to the store today. With my husband’s agreement (as long as the bills are paid, basically), I was allowed to borrow a little money before next Friday’s payday … Read more
Today at 1pm EST we got to see Belfiore gush about Windows Phone 8. After a pit stop, nuking a couple of pieces of leftover pizza from last night, and grabbing a giant glass of punch-flavored Kool-aid, I was ready to drink the virtual Kool-aid. I’m going to start with a run down of the … Read more
This showed up in my email yesterday. If you’re reading Mobility Digest and you don’t get emails from ThinkGeek, you need your head examined. Serious mobile gaming While we love the myriad apps and games in the App Store, there’s one thing we definitely don’t like about mobile gaming: our fingers going oddly numb or … Read more
We love really good apps, no matter what our OS of choice is. We really love really good apps that embrace the good things that OS of choice has to offer. Evernote for Windows Phones has updated, and it has replaced the note list with tiles! Hark, the herald angels sing! Now you can look … Read more
Hurum-hum, as Treebeard would say. At the beginning of the year, Sprint ho-hummed about Windows Phone: We have a Windows device in our lineup, but honestly, it hasn’t done well enough for us to jump back into the fire. We told Microsoft: You guys have to go build the enthusiasm for the product. We’ll train … Read more
How can you tell that Angry Birds has gone from fad game to part of our culture? When Lucasfilms, Inc. allows it to cross over into the Star Wars universe. Lucasfilms, that bastion of merchandising, has allowed Rovio to announce “Angry Birds: Star Wars.” Mark your calendars for November 8, when it will be released … Read more