Microsoft is continuing its cloud efforts by dramatically overhauling it’s SkyDrive website to take advantage of HTML5 and adding a lot of enhancements, the most immediate being the speed difference. This is pretty important for Windows Phone users who rely on SkyDrive since this makes the overall offering even better. And just looking at how … Read more
IM+ has been available to devs but it’s now in marketplace and available for everyone in Marketplace. Here’s their description: Chat in Yahoo!®, GTalk™, AIM®, MySpace™, Jabber, ICQ®, Facebook® and Skype on the go. No more SMS charges! The wide variety of online messenger clients out there often means that no single one works for … Read more
Paramount has provided its latest Windows Phone 7 enhanced movie and this time it’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and it’s $10. I’ll give you the description in a second but so you know, this is a phone only version and you can’t transfer it to a PC. It comes with some enhanced features … Read more
Oh those Chevron guys have been talking to Microsoft about putting together an approved unlocking tool that will provide for the ability to sideload apps directly to your Windows Phone. Here’s their announcement: It’s been a while since we posted something. Between fixing state machines and avoiding the paparazzi, we have been busy tinkering with … Read more
So it looks like Evernote passed certification and is going into the Marketplace imminently. We’re just waiting on it to get itself a fancy link so we can find it and download and all (since now you can’t find it in new or by searching). Anyway, here’s all the details they provided about it: From … Read more
Looks like some deals over at Verizon to promote the HTC Trophy on Verizon. First up, if you buy one (for $150 with a new contract) you get a free Xbox 360 game (Kinect Sports, Lode Runner or Halo Reach). But even if you haven’t bought one they’re still running a contest for everyone to … Read more
Nokia and Carl Zeiss have been touting just how good the two have worked together to push camera phones into legitimate cameras. They’ve got a bunch of information about why the lenses and optics are better and how good the photos are and now there’s a YouTube video to go with it and the entire … Read more
Microsoft held a contest to see what the top health and life science apps were for Windows Phones and they’ve now announced ten winners of a 4gb Xbox 360 with Kinect (sick prize). One of the winners is an app I personally use as well as some of the writers here and that’s 6 Week … Read more
Sebastian Holst has provided some great insight into the best method of selling Windows Phone 7 apps in order to get the best return and the solution is neither free apps nor paid apps – it’s both. As he notes, paid apps with trials do not appear in the free category of the Marketplace. So … Read more
Remember when you first heard about this new operating system that Microsoft was showing off called “Windows Phone Series 7” and it looked so slick and had great features and you were really into it and then you learned they were talking about a product almost a year away from release? And so you waited … Read more