Mobile

How to port Android apps to Windows Phone 7

Following the help for iPhone developers to port their apps to Windows Phone, Microsoft now also helps out Android developers to port their apps.

They’ve just released the following package containing:

Updates for Bing Mobile, MSN Video Mobile

Along with the news about the new “honey badger” update to Bing Webmaster Tools, and a new Bing Toolbox including advertising, developer, and Bing Business Portal links, Andy Chu from Bing also announced an update for Bing Mobile, which …

Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace to shut down, MyPhone moving to SkyDrive

In an email to Windows Mobile 6.x users today, Microsoft revealed that they will be shutting down the MyPhone service, and beginning to move current Windows Mobile 6.x MyPhone content to SkyDrive, beginning August 7, 2011. Here’s a portion of …

Microsoft reveals new SkyDrive features in Windows Phone “Mango”, denies music streaming

Microsoft is definitely keeping its promise during the Windows Phone VIP press event, having revealed more details about the Music+Videos hub in Windows Phone "Mango" last week, and just yesterday they have revealed more details about the Games hub

Recap: Microsoft Xbox @ E3 announcements

It’s been a big day today for Microsoft, being the first to kick off E3 2011 with their media briefing this morning. A lot of gaming news had been announced for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Kinect, Xbox LIVE, and Windows …

AT&T: “Windows Phone not selling as well as we want” (well, who’s fault is that?)

p4-1-attOn Saturday, Ina Fried from All Things D posted an interview with AT&T’s CEO Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, on a wide range of issues, one of which was the lack …

New features in Music+Video hub in Windows Phone “Mango” revealed

As promised during the Windows Phone VIP press event, Microsoft is slowly revealing more new features in their upcoming Windows Phone "Mango" update. Today on the official Windows Phone blog, Microsoft detailed some of the upcoming changes in …

Windows Phone “Mango” concepts that never made the cut

Microsoft revealed to the world the next iteration of their Windows Phone OS codenamed "Mango" just last week at the VIP press conference, and demoed the latest testing build of their "Mango" OS in press events worldwide. We were …

First Windows Phone “Mango” hardware revealed – Acer W4

Microsoft unveiled last week at the Windows Phone VIP press conference that three new hardware manufacturers – Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE, will be joining in to produce Windows Phones in the coming year. Today, the first new hardware device to …

Windows Live on Windows Phone “Mango”: The Past, Present, and Future

We’ve all heard about Microsoft’s "3-screens-and-the-cloud" strategy before, delivering cloud services to the "three-screens" – PCs, TV (via the Xbox 360), and of course your mobile phones. Windows Live really sits right in the centre of this strategy, …