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Windows Phone Continues to Dominate in Marketplace Growth

July 28, 2011 1 Comment

We all know that the road to mobile domination victory for Windows Phone will be a long one. They are fighting a constant war against many things like Windows Mobile leaving a bad taste in consumers mouths to Apple and Android market-share dominance. One huge weapon that Microsoft does have in its arsenal against its […]

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This Week’s New WP7 Xbox Live Game: Sally’s Salon Luxury Edition

July 27, 2011 1 Comment

Sally’s Salon Luxury Edition by GameHouse Live is this weeks new Xbox Live game for Windows Phone. This frantic type of games that you typically see as an online game are very addicting and challenging. This time management game pits you as a stylist that starts off at a shopping mall and you need to […]

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Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst Removed from Marketplace, Probably for Good

July 26, 2011 No Comments

Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst was removed from the Marketplace but not much thought was given to that as games with issues have been removed before to rectify the issues and then have been resubmitted to the Marketplace. Crackdown 2, however seems to be an entirely different situation. The developers of Crackdown 2 posted a message […]

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Facebook Gets Updated to V2.1

July 24, 2011 No Comments

Facebook was updated to Version 2.1 recently to basically just make one fix in particular. As great as the last update was that added notifications, it broke the ability to be able to look through someone’s album. Which is something that most Facebook users like to do on the go, go through friends albums and […]

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Sally’s Salon Luxury Edition to be Next Weeks Xbox Live Game

July 21, 2011 No Comments

Sally’s Salon  Luxurey Edition by Game House is coming to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace as next weeks Xbox Live game release. The basic premise of the game is getting the customer all made up while keeping pace with the amount of customers in the salon. These types of games are addicting and very entertaining. […]

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Upgraded App Hub Gets Detailed… What Changed? (Mango App Submissions in August)

July 21, 2011 No Comments

We went through the main changes in the newly upgraded marketplace early yesterday but the Windows phone team took it one step further and went into great detail on what changed in the app hub. We will be diving into the new app hub soon to get a feel for all of these new upgrades […]

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Tentacles: New WP7 Xbox Live game

July 20, 2011 No Comments

The WP7 Xbox Live game this week is none other than Tentacles. One of the games that was shown off at E3. In the game you play as (you guessed it) a creature named Tentacles. It is a platformer of sorts that has you playing as that creature inside your enemy. That is a pretty […]

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AppHub is Back Up, Private Beta Marketplace Added

July 19, 2011 No Comments

The AppHub website was temporarily disabled yesterday in order for some updates and new features to be added. The AppHub was back online last night and some changes worth noting were: Updated layout New crash reports Export of download/purchase details Private beta Marketplace Edit application details Developers in the AppHub forums for the most part […]

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App Hub Offline Monday For Service Upgrades

July 17, 2011 7 Comments

Microsoft has announced the the App Hub site and services will be down for the most of the day on Monday (7/18/11). Reason for service interruption is stated as service upgrades, although it doesn’t mention what kind of upgrades exactly. The App Hub site states the following:   App Hub down July 18 for service upgrades new! Submitted      […]

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Wikipedia Reader Available Now

July 16, 2011 No Comments

Wikipedia has become an indespensible convenience of our time. It certainly makes life easy when you want to know anything about anything and you can simply perform a search on Wikipedia. There are more than one Wikipedia application for Windows Phone 7 but Wikipedia Reader is probably one of the better ones. A couple of […]

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Mango Now Rolling Out For Samsung Focus V1.4

The Samsung Focus received the Mango update along with almost every other device back in September but not every...

Samsung Focus S & Flash Now Available on AT&T

The Samsung Focus S and the Samsung Focus Flash are now available on AT&T. Display 480×800 (4.27” WVGA) Super...