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BBC News Mobile Mango App in Development [video]

July 15, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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American Airlines WP7 App to be Updated Soon – “Fastest Info on the Planet”

July 12, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Polls Closed: Most People Looking Forward to Multi-Tasking on WP7 Mango

June 3, 2011 No Comments

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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Almost Showtime For Mango: What has been Uncovered So far

May 24, 2011 No Comments

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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Categorize Your Live Tiles

May 17, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Birdsong Update Submitted: Toast and Live Tile in V1.3

May 8, 2011 2 Comments

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 […]

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More About WP7 Mascot Tiler (Update)

May 5, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Microsoft Event Will Have Live Tile App Wall

April 28, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Live Tile Improvements to Come With ‘Mango’

April 15, 2011 No Comments

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”, […]

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Mango Will Allow You to ‘Fragment’ Your Apps

April 13, 2011 No Comments

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. […]

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