Here’s a new ad for Windows Phone 7 that will be aired during the Golden Globes awards show this Sunday. It has absolutely nothing to do with Windows Phone 7, but it’s kind of a nice tribute to all of the struggling actors and actresses out there that are trying to get a handle on their careers. Many of which will probably be watching the Golden Globes on Sunday when this airs. If you’ve ever …
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Bing is Better on the iPhone
Microsoft has posted a new Bing video advertisement in the Bing YouTube channel and this time it features the iPhone Bing app. The video shows off Bing’s mapping capabilities, product search, local search and sharing results via social networks. If you’ve seen the Bing app on Windows Phone 7, Android, Windows Mobile 6.x, or Blackberry you may notice that the iPhone version has a lot more features. I’m not sure how developing software for the …
Continue readingZune’s Windows Phone 7 Promotional Video
The Zune team just posted a new video to their YouTube channel that shows off some of the features of the Zune integration on Windows Phone 7. It showcases the ability to stream or download new music anywhere using a Zune Pass, as well as the ability to sync videos and playlists from a PC. All the while you get to see the very nicely designed Windows Phone 7 user interface and gorgeous artist imagery. …
Continue readingT-Mobile’s 4G Smear Campaign Spreads to Verizon
T-Mobile has been airing some ads making fun of the iPhone 4’s horrible service on AT&T. Lucky for Apple, Verizon just announced that they would be offering an iPhone 4 as well. T-Mobile has fought back with the below ad that makes both AT&T and Verizon look a bit unattractive and slow. These ads are obviously mimicking Apple’s old “I’m a PC” ads which mocked the popular stigmas related to Windows PCs of the time. …
Continue readingMicrosoft to Meet with ChevronWP7 Team Next Week
You may have heard about the ChevronWP7 team and how they’ve been able to unlock certain parts of Windows Phone 7 for sideloading applications without using the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. Brandon Watson of Microsoft recently tweeted that he is looking forward to meeting with the ChevronWP7 team next week. We knew that they were communicating, but didn’t know a meeting had been scheduled. We don’t know exactly what the meeting is about, but Brandon …
Continue readingOld School Games Coming to Windows Phone 7
Caught on video at CES were a few old retro games that Microsoft is bringing to Windows Phone 7 as Xbox Live games. This is all part of the “Game Room” platform that you may be familiar with on Xbox/PC. The Windows Phone 7 Game Room will start off with three Xbox Live enabled retro games; Centipede, Asteroids Deluxe and Shao-Lin Road. Unfortunately there’s not an actual room that your Xbox Live avatar can walk …
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