September 21, 2011
Microsoft is reporting that outages across many of their online services are offline. For example while on Xbox Live matchmaking is still working, xbox.com is down. Same for Zune, while you can download apps – you will have some problems managing your account.Take a list of the services that have been affected. Xbox LIVE: Signing […]
Tags: Microsoft, offline, Services Down, Xbox Live, ZuneNews
September 6, 2011
Bad news for European Zune Pass subscribers. Microsoft will be reducing the number of devices that you can connect with your Zune Pass. Starting September 13th 2011 European customers will only have the option now to connect to 1 PC and then a combination of Zune, Windows Phone or PC’s for the next three. Here is […]
Tags: europe, Windows Phone, Zune, Zune PassNews, Zune
August 23, 2011
It’s only natural that with new features in Mango we will have to update the software that we use to manage our mobile devices. In anticipation of the distribution of the Mango update, Microsoft is requiring that you update your Zune software to version 4.8 to make it compatible with the updated Windows Phone OS. […]
Tags: v4.8, Windows Phone, WP7, ZuneNews, Zune
August 2, 2011
Windows Phone isn’t the only one getting some update love from Microsoft. The Zune HD (which I dearly loved before the HD7 came around) has received a good amount of updates itself today. tromboneforhire a Zune MVP broke down all the new apps, games and updates for the best PMP I ever owned. New Games: […]
Tags: Apps, Games, Updates, Windows Phone, WP7, Zune, Zune HDApps, Games, Zune
July 1, 2011
As my usual routine, I look through the Marketplace quite often, therefore I tend to notice when there is an issue. If you have looked poked around the Marketplace this morning, or even the apps on Zune you may have noticed some issues with the loading. While it takes longer then usual to load the […]
Tags: Marketplace, windows phone 7, WP7, ZuneNews, Zune
June 8, 2011
There has been a lot of information regarding the expansion of Windows Phone 7 and its’ services to different regions. Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Windows Phone Program Management tweeted this message: The Zunepass has been something that we cannot live without in my household so I, for one am happy that others will get […]
Tags: Joe Belfiore, Mango, speech, windows phone 7, WP7, Zune, zunepassNews, Zune
June 5, 2011
Best Buy has a pretty good deal going on right now. Buy any Windows Phone 7 device and get 4,000 Microsoft Points for free. 4,000 Microsoft Points is valued at $50 in the real world and with that you will be able to buy a bunch of games on xbox and buy music, videos or buy/rent movies […]
Tags: Best Buy, microsoft points, movies, music, sale, Windows Phone, windows phone 7, WP7, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, ZuneNews
June 4, 2011
We all know by now some of the new features coming to the Music/ Video (Zune) hub with the Mango update. Here is a breakdown of some of those heavy hitting features and also a bunch of tiny once that will add to our already awesome Zune experience on Windows Phone 7. Podcasts now included […]
Tags: Mango, Mango Features, media, music, Video, windows phone 7, WP7, ZuneNews
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 […]
Tags: 4G, acer, Bing, Bing Audio, Bing Vision, conversation, Dell, Email, facebook chat, Feature, Features, Games, Groups, HTC, HTC Bresson, IE9, Improved Live Tiles, inbox, linked email, LinkedIn, live tiles, Local Scout, lync, Mango, Microsoft, Multi-Player, multitasking, nodo, Nokia, Office, Office 365, Office Hub, Playlist, podcast, push notification, Quickcards, samsung, Sharepoint, Skydrive, Smart DJ, SMS Dictation, Steve Ballmer, Tech-ed, Threaded Email, Threads, toast notification, Turn-by-turn navigation, Twitter, update, Video, vip, wifi, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Phone, windows phone 7, Windows Phone 7.1, windows phone 7.5, WP7, WP7.1, wp7.5, Xbox Live, ZuneNews
May 31, 2011
Over at the XDA Developer forum, a member by the username hx4700Killer, has come up with a backup tool for your Windows Phone 7 device. ‘I have written a .Net app for backing up windows phone 7 via the Zune updater tool. This backup can be used by Zune to restore the device when you […]
Tags: back-up, Homebrew, Save, Windows Phone, windows phone 7, WP7, XDA, ZuneNews