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Torchbear App Searching For Beta Testers

August 23, 2011 No Comments

Torchbear is a social game where you create a torch, give it a mission and pass it to someone where they add their comments and pictures to your torch allowing you to track your torch around the world and track the success of your torch’s mission. The 5 Golden Rules of Torchbear: You can only […]

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Microsoft Now Accepting Windows Phone Mango Submissions

August 22, 2011 1 Comment

Developers rejoice! The moment when you can submit your apps for Windows Phone Mango has finally arrived. We noted last month that App Hub would begin accepting Mango apps in late August. The infrastructure for accepting your Mango apps is coming online as we speak! Some of you may already be seeing new content as […]

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Flowerz: Classic WP7 Xbox Live Game Updated for Mango

August 22, 2011 No Comments

We Recently saw a good number of the HTC apps get updated to Mango. Then we say MSN Movies get updated yesterday to include a few Mango features. Now the first Xbox Live title ever gets the same treatment. Flowerz has been updated to version 1.2 which turns out to give it instant resume when […]

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MSN Movies App Updated – Gets a Touch of Mango

August 21, 2011 No Comments

MSN Movies app by Microsoft was updated recently and it has signs of Mango goodness. Even though I found that it doesn’t have that awesome auto resume on multitasking (something I uncovered on the recently updated HTC apps). It does however show up when you search for movies on Bing. When you press it it […]

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Marketplace Will Now Let You Know If App is Not Available for Your Device

August 20, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has an added something new to the Marketplace. Now if an app isn’t available for your device it will give you a message that says This application is not available for your device. Press here for more info.” When you click on the message it will say: This might be because your phone software […]

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WP7 Xbox Live Closer Look: Fight Game Rivals (Achievements, Gameplay, Images)

August 20, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft announced a legion of new games coming to Windows Phone via Xbox Live. Here we take a closer look at Fight Game: Rivals, the game looks to be a serious heavy weight when it drops on Windows Phone, Fight Game: Rivals is like nothing we have seen on WP7 yet and I for one […]

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Voddler Video Streaming Service Coming to Windows Phone?

August 20, 2011 No Comments

Voddler, a video streaming service that streams movies and shows is looking to expand to a new platform. They are currently taking votes on their Facebook page about what platform should be next. Oddly enough they have Windows Mobile 7 coming  in at first place, Windows Phone 7 is third, and Windows Phone in fourth place. Call […]

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Toy Soldiers Cold War: Boot Camp Mini Game Video Previews

August 20, 2011 1 Comment

A mobile version of the Hit XBLA Toy Soldiers is coming to the Windows Phone 7 soon. Subtitled as “Boot Camp”, it packs in its bigger brother’s shooting gallery mini-games with cross-platform leader boards. Microsoft’s Gamescom announcement didn’t offer any game-play details but promised the title will be out in the Autumn. These videos found over the mystical, magical workings of this new site […]

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Microsoft’s Former Silverlight Programmer Examines Marketplace Stats

August 19, 2011 No Comments

Former Microsoft Silverlight Program Manager Justin Angel  decided that he was going to download every app on the Marketplace in order to figure out what programs developers were using for their apps and a little bit more: “Wrote a query that runs on the entire WP7 marketplace and looks for XAPs with the exact same DLLs” […]

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IM+ Update Available Now

August 19, 2011 No Comments

As promised the update for IM+ is now available. In addition to some new tweaks to the application performance, the update brings a big negative. Just as IM+ warned when the announcement of the update was made, if you choose to go ahead and update your phone to the new version of IM+ you will […]

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Custom Mango ROM: DeepShining For the HTC HD7

  Are you are the type of person that loves nothing more than to do risky procedures to your devices...

New Nokia Windows Phone? Nokia Sun Landing November 7th on Orange France?

Is there a new Nokia Windows Phone aside from the Nokia Searay, Nokia Sabre and the rumored Nokia Ace?...