July 15, 2011
The Mango version of the BBC News app is currently in development and the developer is generously sharing the progress on his blog. His latest posting tells of features that have been added to the application and also a video demo of the app so far. New features include: Double Sided Live Tiles Pin individual […]
Tags: Apps, bbs news, Developer, live tiles, Mango, Windows Phone, WP7Apps, News
July 12, 2011
Kicking off Microsoft Corp.’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), CEO Steve Ballmer and corporate vice president, Tami Reller took the stage to address many topics under the Microsoft umbrella. One thing they mentioned was the fact that the American Airlines App will get an update soon that will make it the fastest way to get flight […]
Tags: American Airlines, Flight Information, live tiles, Planes, Windows Phone, windows phone 7, WP7Apps
June 3, 2011
We asked you guys what Mango feature you were looking forward to the most (this was before all the Mango announcements a few days ago). More than half of you just really want to multi-task on Windows Phone, which is something that I am looking forward to myself. The rest of you either were interested […]
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May 24, 2011
We have less than an hour to prepare for Microsoft’s Mango event. It promises to have tons of news and new features involving the Mango update and the future of Windows Phone. We are very excited and even more so with Steve Ballmer stating that there will be over 500 new features packed in with Mango. Let’s […]
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May 17, 2011
A while back someone made a Live Tile that was simply a black tile and it had no real function. The purpose of it was that it allowed you to pin it to your home screen and create spaces between certain tiles. Basically allowing for you to group them. The iqagency blog took that concept […]
Tags: Apps, categories, Games, iqagency, live tiles, music, people, sites, social, WP7News
May 8, 2011
Our favorite Twitter client (check our review) on Windows Phone 7 is finally coming full circle. They have just announced that a Birdsong update has been submitted and it will included toast notifications and live tile. Cain Ullah, Founder of Red Badger Consulting (who developed Birdsong) had this to tell us through twitter. Can’t wait to […]
Tags: Birdsong, live tiles, Red Badger, toast notification, Twitter, Twitter Client, updateApps
May 5, 2011
Our friends over at B+ Studio sent us some more info and images of the Windows Phone mascot “Tiler” that they are working on. Here is the newest comic strip of Tiler: This is a nice concept, they are not only making a mascot for WP7 but also giving him a story. He’s a Live […]
Tags: B+studio, live tiles, mascot, tiler, windows phone 7, WP7News
April 28, 2011
When Microsoft debuted the App Wall at Mix11, some people were enthusiastic, others were grumbling about how the tiles should have been live. Well apparently Microsoft was listening because in an upcoming ‘Mango’ event Microsoft will feature a Live Tile app wall. I am reaching out to you to gauge your interest in having your […]
Tags: App wall, live tiles, Mango, Microsoft, MIX11, windows phone 7, WP7News
April 15, 2011
Mango which will be the first major update to Windows Phone 7 is due this Fall. One thing that will get many new features with the update is the Live Tiles. New features coming to the Live Tile system are: Local notifications: these aren’t push, but instead are purely local–great for alarms, reminders, “note tiles”, […]
Tags: live tiles, Mango, push notification, toast notification, windows phone 7News
April 13, 2011
When the Mango update comes this fall there will be many promising features. One such feature is the capability to create a live tile from certain actions within an app. The example given at Mix11 was to take the (future) feature of the Amazon app that enables barcode scanning to find your item on Amazon. […]
Tags: amazon, barcode scanner, live tiles, Mango, updateApps, News