Think We’re Gonna Need More Bandwidth

Last night while staring at the logs I freaked out and wrote some Microsoft privacy invasion rant asking the readers what’s going on. They said it’s Weave, a WP7 app which we reviewed, an RSS reader. I had difficulty buying that because, at first, on the server side the forensics indicated this was web browser … Read more

Weather Channel Max for iPad update may have issues [UPDATE!]

A couple of days ago I wrote Weather Channel Max for iPad update may have issues and has been freezing the screen up and not launching the application. This stemmed from a Feb. 16th 2011 update. As it turns out, Weather Channel had been aware of the problem and emailed me their response: “We heard … Read more

Say, “Hello” to Mobility Digest 2.0 for WP7

Behold version 2.0 of our Window Phone app! We at Mobility Digest love our readers, and to show my personal appreciation for all of you(especially our WP7 readers, because let’s face it, I’m totally biased) I’ve done my best to unleash a host of new additions to this version of our Windows Phone app. I … Read more

Cup Shuffle The Game For Windows Phones

Herm’s Software currently holds the #1 spot in Marketplace for all games with Paper Toss. Herm’s latest release is Cup Shuffle which brings the old ‘keep your eye on the cup with the ball under it’ game to your phone with high betting and an online leaderboard that’s already exploded. Oh and yes, it’s free. … Read more

Back from vacation! Got a funny video. Got NoDo. It’s disappointing…

So here I am, in the middle of the busiest time of my life: tons of work, family arrangements, a new kid (my second), health issues – the best timing to take a vacation!

Vacations are the best thing a busy person can do to clean his head. Anything else which doesn’t come with "big dozes" is simply not enough; it takes around a day to get used to the fact you are on vacation, just to realize you just lost a day out of your vacation trying to adjust…

Anyways, back to the scene: here I am, getting used to being away from a laptop, iPad, and technology, using just one phone, my Samsung Omnia 7 (yep, I left the best Android smartphone ever at home), when suddenly I get a message about an update available for my phone(!). I’ve been in this movie before, thinking I got the NoDo update ending up receiving an older (and useless I might add) update, but now I was certain this is the NoDo update.

"Finally!" I’m laughing – "the update!", just to read the rest of the message saying: "please connect your phone to Zune to learn more… ". Damn.

Anyways, this is how my vacation started, but since I promised myself to forget about technology, gadgets and the likes, I actually managed to avoid reading mails, answering phone calls, etc. The vacation was amazing, quality time with the wife and kids was a great joy, and my Samsung Omnia 7 served me well as a camera. It is really good, and the hardware button to quickly launch the camera is brilliant, it turns your phone into a "ready to use" camera. Something which always bothered me with other smartphones, where it takes few seconds to open the camera, usually long enough to miss the scene you wanted to capture.

  

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Shhh! Microsoft’s Listening

WinPho nuts, I was watching the logs and came across something curious. Two thirds of your phones go through a Microsoft “mobilizer” proxy server when hitting our site. Nothing revolutionary, Google made one of those (natural progression of things is a few years later Microsoft does too), but two thirds of you in April out … Read more

Mango to Bring Private Betas and Game Ratings to App Hub

According to Roger Peters, Mango will give devs the ability to have private betas and release private apps(requires a deep link to download the app). Games will also require ratings and certification of those ratings if it’s required by the region of distribution. Private betas will expire after 90days and will have a limit of … Read more