NeoWin is stating that they have several sources all confirming a March 8 date for the first Windows Phone update. You know, the one that finally gives us copy and paste, makes Marketplace searches better and gives overall performance enhancement. According to the sources – including someone well placed inside a European carrier – the … Read more
There’s been speculation if Windows Phone 7 would essentially eat Zune hardware. If Microsoft releases a new Zune then they are making hardware to compete with their phones and Microsoft has tried to avoid doing this in the past. Anyway, looks like a new iteration of Zune is in fact coming. Here’s the Mix website: … Read more
ShopGlider is a free shopping list manager for Windows Phones and it’s just received an upgrade that includes syncing with their website. Pretty neat because by doing that you really do make it cross-platform and make the app easier to use. Here’s the press release: A new version of ShopGlider Grocery Shopping List WP7 app … Read more
Guitar Hero is was a pretty popular game across lots of platforms and…we can now talk about it in the past tense. From Xbox360Digest we learn that Activision has decided to ax it and move on to projects that it thinks are more profitable and have more room to advance. This is shocking as Guitar … Read more
You know when I start talking iPhone it’s because it’s pretty cool: Ogmento Inc. today announced the release of Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary, a geo-location based, augmented reality role-playing game, now available for free in the Apple App Store for the iPhone. Published by Ogmento under license from Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paranormal Activity: Sanctuary creates a … Read more
And we have a release date! Here it is from the official press release and notice the avatar inclusion which is a first: Full House Poker” for Windows Phone 7 will be launching on March 16th for $2.99 in the Games marketplace. The mobile companion to the Xbox 360 title, “Full House Poker” for Windows … Read more
For all of those that think that Windows Phone games don’t make developers money, Elbert Perez is showing otherwise. He’s an Indie developer and has released a series of Windows Phone 7 games that are top rated. Although his games started at $.99 there are now free versions of all of his games and he’s … Read more
I made it to age 26 without a phone. Enjoyed not being reachable, you know? Eventually I got one and in no time it became an obsession just like that. I mean look at me, I’m blogging about phone addiction with two phones next to my arms. And a battery tester tester to the left … Read more
Not sure if it has anything to do with the coming WP7 update, but my Samsung Omnia 7 just got a weird restart which ended up pretty badly with no less than a complete irreversible end-to-end definite hard reset. No, I didn’t get anything new, nor copy & paste, but what I did get is … Read more
Vic Gundotra is a VP of engineering and a former general manager at Microsoft. He tweeted “#feb11 “Two turkeys do not make an Eagle.” #feb11 is a reference to the date that Nokia is unveiling their future plans and that’s the follow tag used on Twitter for the event. And he’s one of the people … Read more
On 2/9/2011 2:42 PM, Doug Simmons wrote: I predict that this email will kick off an intriguing staffmail thread containing our random predictions of whatever happening by whenever, the thead subsequently turning into a heavily trafficked article which I’ll summarily compile. I also predict that the negative effects on Android sales due to the Verizon … Read more
I’m not really into too many games but these trial modes keep getting me hooked. I downloaded Balloon Gunner on the day it came out and tried the trial (which consists of the first three flight levels) and had a great time with it. Today, I took the plunge and bought it for $1.99…and then … Read more