Right now, Microsoft’s new business subscription cloud service called Office 365 is in beta. You can sign up for a free test account right now and try it out. In this video we’ll take a look at what Office 365 offers and how it works with Windows Phone 7. Office 365 pricing plans will start at around $6 per user per month but you’ll get a lot for that price. It includes Exchange 2010, Office …
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Windows Phone 7 Mango to Offer Linked Inbox Option
Neowin has found a leaked screenshot of a new feature we haven’t heard about yet, that’s supposedly (and hopefully) going to appear in this fall’s “Mango” update to Windows Phone 7. There’s a lot of people who like the “unified inbox” feature on other phones and email clients where you can see all email inboxes from all accounts that you’ve set up. There’s also a lot of people that do not like that. It seems …
Continue readingBank of America App Now on Windows Phone
Mobile banking has grown a lot in popularity since the early days of the PDA. Today we’ve got the new Bank of America app for Windows Phone 7 which lets you check balances, transfer money, pay bills, and search for ATMs or bank locations. You’ve probably seen plenty of other apps like this on other mobile platforms, but it’s good to see them coming to Windows Phone as well. Unfortunately you can’t do the whole …
Continue readingAPI Mapping Tool Makes It Easier To Port iOS Apps to WP7
Microsoft released an API Mapping tool that helps iPhone developers learn about API’s with similar functions on Windows Phone 7. The tool can be found at wp7mapping.interoperabilitybridges.com. Basically you select from a list of iOS developer programming interfaces on the left and then you’ll see listings of Windows Phone API’s on the right along with links to documentation for both the iOS programming interfaces as well as the Windows Phone interfaces. It’s not currently complete, …
Continue readingWindows Phones Do Not Track Your Every Move
You know how everyone’s talking about how it was discovered that Apple’s iPhone and iOS 4 have been secretly tracking your every move? According to The Atlantic, forensic software can reveal a whole lot more about you just by accessing your iPhone. Android does a lot of the location tracking too, but in a slightly different way. So what about Windows Phone 7? PC Magazine decided to contact Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, Google, and HP about …
Continue readingNoDo Updates Now Available for Focus and Quantum
If you plugged your Samsung Focus or LG Quantum into Zune this afternoon, you may have noticed a couple updates are now available. That’s right, both the February update and the March update which includes Copy/Paste are being pushed out to the two AT&T Windows Phone 7’s. Unfortunately the HTC Surround is still going through some tests before it will get the update, but Focus and Quantum users will be happy today. Once you plug …
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