The App Store is More Open Than Marketplace

When we first learned about the restrictions for submitting apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace there were immediate comparisons to Apples App Store and it generally seemed like they would end up in line with each other. As you probably know though, Microsoft recently pulled Imagewind from the Marketplace because it shows unfiltered images and … Read more

Microsoft To Unveil Silverlight For Xbox Next Week

According to WinRumors Microsoft is going to announce the availability of Silverlight for Xbox at Mix. For developers this would be great because with some resizing, etc they can take their Silverlight apps and sell them on a bigger screen. And obviously as the Microsoft ecosystem expands there’s more of an incentive to make apps … 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