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Student Windows Phone Developers to Start From Scratch After Dreamspark

October 6, 2011 No Comments

It makes sense to me that students will have to create a pic account after they are done with school. To me that is a no-brainer and should be expected by everyone. What I didn’t expect was that when Your Dreamspark  profile runs out and you aren’t a student anymore, you will have to start […]

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Windows Phone App to Control Xbox 360 Coming Soon

October 5, 2011 No Comments

With the announcement of Microsoft’s Live TV partnerships, Microsoft is throwing something into the mix to sweeten  things up a bit. Microsoft has developed an application that Windows Phone owners can use to control their Xbox called the Xbox companion app. The best part about all of this is that the Xbox companion app will […]

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Nearly 40 World-Leading TV and Entertainment Partners Have Joined Xbox

October 5, 2011 No Comments

Whoa!!! Now that’s alot of partners Microsoft has just announced for their launch of Live TV on Xbox 360. HBO Go, Comcast, Verizon Fios, and many more have just signed up to have their content up on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 for Live Gold members. Not only that but everything will can be controlled through the kinect. […]

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Zune Players (Zune HD) Still Hanging Around?

October 5, 2011 1 Comment

This has played out like a regular daytime TV drama. First Zune.net refreshed their homepage and doesn’t mention the Zune HD as a compatible device. Then Microsoft turns around and says that it was just a mistake. Yesterday we noticed that one of the Zune support pages finally revealed that they would in fact be […]

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Whatsapp Updates to 1.2 – Charging us is it’s Newest Feature

October 5, 2011 No Comments

Whatsapp has just been updated to version 1.2! Whats new in Whatsapp you ask? Well, for the most part they have just modified the look and feel of the app. Nothing dramatic yet but they are trying to clean up to uninspired look that we saw from launch. It does finally support landscape mode which […]

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Zune Hardware is Dead (for real this time) RIP

October 4, 2011 No Comments

We published an article yesterday on how Microsoft was through with Zune hardware when on their newly updated site, they failed to place the Zune HD on their list of compatible devices. Soon after they edited the homepage on Zune.net and claimed it was in error. However now on their support pages they have updated […]

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Microsoft Launches Sharepoint Hub For Windows Phone

October 4, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft Just launched Sharepoint Hub app on Windows Phone. It is a simple app that just connects you to the sharepoint community. News, Events and blogs is what this application is all about. I must download if you are all about Sharepoint. It is a bit buggy though, my first run through kicked me out […]

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Mango Update Already Out For 50% of Windows Phone Users

October 3, 2011 No Comments

Mango has not been out for a week yet and we are already getting word from Microsoft that Mango has just been sent out to about 50% of Windows Phone users around the world.  That’s quite a large number of updates and Microsoft is not wasting time touting the large number,   Eric Hautala from […]

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Today, We Bid Farewell to the Zune HD [UPDATED]

October 3, 2011 No Comments

In a final effort to ditch the Zune HD, Microsoft has officially removed the device from the Zune music pass page. It is no longer listed as an option for which your Zune pass can be used. It hasn’t exactly been a big secret that Microsoft was going to choose to discontinue Zune hardware. Microsoft […]

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Leaked: Xbox 360 Fall Update Video (Tons of Metro Goodness)

October 3, 2011 No Comments

Windows Phone may not be showing the best sales numbers  (yet), but it has really been reinvigorating all the other Microsoft products and services. We have seen with our own eyes how Windows Phone has changed the way Windows is headed with Windows 8. Now this fall Xbox will be doing exactly the same thing. […]

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Nokia Teasing the Nokia 900 (Ace)?

We loved Nokia’s presentation at Nokia World of their 2 brand new Windows Phones. However, we had hoped to...

HTC Radar Available Now on T-Mobile

T-mobile has launched its HTC Radar today for only $99 with a 2 year contract and the suggested retail price...