Free App Friday: NetworkAcc Mobile Network Accelerator

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It’s Free, It’s Friday, so it must be time for Free App Friday from Handango! Check this week App: Accelerate all your mobile-network based activities using NetworkAcc, a 2009 Handango Champion Award Nominee! Speed up browsing, downloading, uploading, streaming, online gaming, sending and receiving email. Optimization technology is applied to fine-tune several key network parameters … Read more

Microsoft To Employees – Make WP7 Apps (For Free)

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So we now have a leaked Microsoft email from Andy Lees to employees which tells them about the free phones they’ll be getting and it also advises them to get to know WP7 and to sell it. And while they’re at it, they should make apps for it. previously there was an internal memo reminding employees that they are employees of a company and essentially to not compete with MS. To employees it’s clearly been taken as a warning that they cannot profit from WP7 apps but we’ll see how it plays out. Anyway, because of the length, hit the break for the complete email to employees and the info we have about the ‘free’ nature of their development.

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iPhone Tower Defense Showdown

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The Mobile Spoon has a really neat post with a buttload of tower defense style games for the iPhone and which are the best.  Ok I just counted and 14 is a buttload:) And the 3D sheep one didn’t win – man they really do have an app for everything… Anyway, if you have an … Read more

Check List With Desktop Companion For WM

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Dadi68 of XDA has written a simple to use, finger friendly check list application that comes with a PC companion so you can create lists and sync between your phone and PC. It’s relatively simple but because of that it’s also relatively straightforward and it does what it’s supposed to do…makes checklists. You can check … Read more

The 800lb Gorilla Answers Back With A 16.04 Billion Q4

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Say what you want about Microsoft, but one thing remains, they are still the 800lb Gorilla. Even though Apple laid down an impressive 15.7 Billion last quarter, it still came up short against Microsoft’s 16.04 Billion Dollar 4th Quarter. While Microsoft energizes their employees to be developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS! for the recently previewed Windows Phone 7 devices due out later this year, he will rest easy tonight knowing he is still wearing the Heavyweight Belt.

“Microsoft Corp. today announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $16.04 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, a 22% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.93 billion, $4.52 billion and $0.51 per share, which represented increases of 49%, 48% and 50%, respectively, when compared with the prior year period.”

Microsoft’s press release is after the break for reading enjoyment.

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Windows Phone 7: New Kid, One World

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Gone are the days where Work and Play are separated.  As we continue to bring the world together through technology so is the mobile phone quickly mirroring that effect on Smartphone users.  Windows Phone 7 is not just Microsoft’s remake of their mobile platform it is a concerted effort to free you from the constraints … Read more

Anuvadak v1.1 Google Translator For Windows Mobile Updated

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This is a really cool application that my kids and I both have had fun with. Google Translator which has apps already for other platforms but nothing yet for Windows Mobile has been beat to the punch by XDA Member chargedRam who created Anuvadak. Anuvadak, the WinMo version of the Google Translator App not only … Read more