Introspection

@Doug Simmons: Hey me, instead of being such a dick all the time, get off your ass and walk to a phone dealer, grab a display model WinPhone and fiddle with it for a while with an open mind. You’ll probably see that it’s really sweet and that these guys whose balls you keep breaking … Read more

Hack Enables Mango Now For Windows Phones [April Fool’s Day In Australia Already]

Yes, that’s not a typo. That’s Mango, not NoDo we’re speaking of. The guys from Chevron have been playing around with Microsoft’s servers and they have found a new build (7510) that can be downloaded. They note that IE9 doesn’t work but SkyDrive and multitasking are flawless. They also say you can revert back to … Read more

NoDo Rolls Out For Dell Venue Pro, Firmware Fix Comes Separately

We Venue Pro owners have been waiting patiently for Dell to fix our crashing and RAM woes. There was hope that maybe Dell would roll their fix into the NoDo release. Dell has now said on Direct2Dell that the Dell specific update will be deployed separately from the NoDo update. NoDo started rolling out a … Read more

Get Ready For April Fools’ With Virtuality

Herm’s Software has another free release for you to add to its arsenal of Windows Phone apps (which includes Paper Toss that’s ranker 11th overall in the Marketplace (before the inexplicable MS shuffle that now places it as #2 overall)). It contains virtual items for playing around with and is a nice release in anticipation … Read more

MS Files Antitrust Complaint Against Goog–Explains Why WP7 YouTube App Sucks

Microsoft’s general counsel has announced that Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission as part of an anti-competitive claim. I’ll provide the entirety of the post below because it’s actually a very interesting read, but start with the irony in all of this, which is that the same action against Microsoft is … Read more