Up until a month ago, I knew as much about programming as most non-techie people, nothing. The last time I did anything even remotely close to programming was writing HTML and copy/pasting java script snippets, about 10 years ago. But given what I heard about Windows Phone regarding it’s relative ease to learn the coding … Read more
As expected, Full House Poker is now available for Windows Phones for $3 with a free trial. This is a companion to the Xbox 360 version but of course, you can play it as a standalone. Here’s their description: Stack your chips, put on your poker face and hit the table with Full House Poker, … Read more
Elbert Perez, who Microsoft has named “the dean of Windows Phone indie game developers” is now seeing a staggering 2 million ad impressions per month. This is an aggregate of all 9 of his games, most of which you’ve probably played already, and all of which we’ve mentioned on this site. They are: Blackboard Gems … Read more
Up until now, the only viable way to get ads on your Windows Phone app was through Microsoft’s own ad service. While Microsoft’s offering works just fine, it’s only viable in the US. AdMob will allow ads to be targeted at international audiences. This will be a big plus for anyone wanting to develop an … Read more
It’s been recently made public that the Zune HD will be the last iteration of Zune hardware. This leaves Zune to be a purely software and based product. David feels that there is potential for Microsoft to spread Zune love to other mobile platforms like Android and iOS. While I think it’s possible, I think … Read more
This Bloomberg story about the Zune hardware being discontinued by Microsoft contains an interesting statement. First off, if you haven’t read it, the claim is that there will not be a new hardware iteration of Zune from Microsoft. Why? “Microsoft will concentrate on putting Zune software onto mobile phones, such as those running its Windows … Read more
Most people know that you can stream music from your phone/computer to an external Bluetooth device, like a pair of headphones or speakers. But did you know that Microsoft and the Windows Phone team have added something special for Windows Phone devices that connect to a Windows 7 PC? Yup! They sure did. So I … Read more
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Krashlander for Windows Phones and since the free/ad supported version has been released it’s shot up to 14th in all games and 29th for all apps even though it was only released on February 23. It’s already exceeded 1,000,000 ad impressions though. Beyond that, it’s showing … Read more
As we’ve been discussing, Twitter has been pushing new techniques to get revenue out of the site, including the #dickbar, of course, and now it seems like they’re clamping down on third party Twitter apps. We’ve seen them go after a few specific Twitter clients in the past but their rhetoric is getting blunter. Apparently, … Read more
Herm’s Software has ported over Paper Toss from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone and I must say, it’s been improved quite a bit. The graphics are really sharp and the physics are great on it. Oh yeah, and it’s free (with ads at top but that doesn’t impact game play). In fact, it has only … Read more