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CareerBuilder Survey Paints A Darker Picture Of Our Obsession With Staying Connected
I will start by saying that I REALLY hope that my wife does not read this article! There is no telling what kind of medicine she is going to put me on or counseling she will insist I go to! I am addicted to Mobility. After reading through a Survey taken by CareerBuilder, a [...]
Devs: New Reporting Utility for Marketplace Users
The Auri Group has released a great utility for developers. Many developers are annoyed that Microsoft doesn’t have an easy report viewing utility for their Windows Mobile Marketplace fulfillment reports. So they wrote one. It is now on the Web for all to use – simply upload your report (XML) and it will show it [...]
Skype Sort Of Pulled From WM
Skype has sort of pulled the WM app from its site. Well, here’s the deal. WMPowerUser reported that they announced on their site that it was being pulled citing performance issues with it but stating if you have it then you can continue to use it. But here’s the thing. They didn’t actually remove [...]
WP7 Meet Xbox 360
We were told that there would be Xbox Live integration in WP7 but the exact level of integration has been a bit of a mystery. In a recent conference call Andy Less stated the following:
We are very excited about the way in which the platform works across screens, so we have commonality of platform [...]
Smartphones Weekly Roundup
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After the successful unveiling of Windows Phone 7 Series at MWC2010 every one is excited about WP7 but since we wont get our hands on one of these till Dec2010. We have to check out the WM6.5 devices that will come out before WP7. One such device from HTC is the HTC HD Mini [...]
Marketplace (Sort Of) Updated
Earlier today Marketplace was updated. Finally, you can install apps to your SD card (instead of main memory) and you can switch regions so you can buy apps from other country’s Marketplaces. You should also know that developers can now post their apps to all countries that share the same language for free (it [...]
The Phone Part of Windows Phone 7 Series
If you watched the demos of WP7 you’ll notice that they always skip over the two things that make a phone a phone. The dialer and sending texts. That’s cause they’re not completed yet. The dialer is particularly not completed. PocketNow was able to dig up an image of the dialer in its current state. [...]
VGA Sense With Landscape Is HERE
All I can say is that Amarulllz is some sort of a genius… He’s done it again. He ported HTC Sense 2.5.2012 to VGA. This means that you can now get Sense with full landscape support on your VGA phone (Fuze, Diamond, etc). His original posting (for chefs) is located here on XDA. Unless [...]
The HD2 Blockbuster Video App – Freed
WMPowerUser reported that the new Blockbuster Video app on the HD2 will actually allow you to stream movies directly to your phone. Yup, no PC needed. And guess what? They’re right. I know cause I just installed it on a Pure:) So shortly after their reporting it was extracted by MichaelMyers of XDA. Upon installation [...]
Windows 7 Phone Multitasking Sort of Explained
Gizmodo was able to get a direct answer on whether or not there would be multitasking on Windows Phone 7. To be fair, all of the apps that are integrated into the OS (which include multiple mail account, music, Facebook, photos, etc) are all running live and getting updated from the cloud. The real question [...]
