Messenger by Miyowa is one of your only choices for Windows Live Messenger instant messaging on the Windows Phone 7 platform since Microsoft did not take it upon themselves to integrate their own client with the new operating system. At first it wasn’t so great, but today we see yet another update that brings some great new features. In addition to the push toast pop-ups that arrived in the previous update, now we’ve got a …
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When Will We Hear More About Windows Phone’s Future?
There’s a lot of excitement and frustration in the world of Windows Phone 7 when it comes to updates and new features. We want everything and we want it now! One thing that might make the waiting a little more bearable is knowing how long you have to wait before hearing news about what you might be waiting for. WinRumors has found a few details about when Microsoft might be revealing some of their plans …
Continue readingMicrosoft Announces Yalla Apps Global Publisher Program
Todd Brix, Senior Director for Windows Phone Marketplace, has a new Blog post at the Windows Phone Developer Blog that gives us a some updates about a few Windows Phone Marketplace stats, but also announces a new Global Publishing program. Unfortunately, the new program sounds a bit unfair, but it does allow developers in non-supported countries across the Middle East and Africa to submit applications to the Windows Phone Marketplace. Basically, you have to register …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7’s “Surprise” Commercial
Everybody really loved that first new “What if” commercial for Windows Phone 7 which started really showing off what Windows Phone 7 is capable of. The other day a new one was released that has the same type of style and theme but goes on to ask “When was the last time your phone surprised you in a good way?” You’ll see some quick showing off of Netflix streaming, Microsoft Office, and some impressive Xbox …
Continue readingReport: WP7 Mango Update Won’t Hit This Year
Paul Thurrott recently wrote an article about Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7’s update problems and mentions that, “Mango will be finalized by the end of 2011, and while Microsoft recently promised to ship this release to customers by the end of the year as well, my sources tell me that schedule is a near impossibility.” Does that sound likely to you? Microsoft can’t afford to push back their next major update. Maybe some features they were …
Continue readingmoTweets Now Available for Windows Phone 7
You may remember moTweets as a great twitter app for the old Windows Mobile 6.x platform. Well, Panoramic software is back with a new version of moTweets rebuilt from scratch for the new Windows Phone 7 platform. The new Twitter app has some unique features that other Twitter apps may have neglected. For example, moTweets has a live tile that shows the number of direct messages and mentions that you may have for each account. …
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