Zune originals shuttered–Another nail in the Zune (device) coffin?

Zune Originals, the official online store for Zune devices, has closed its doors as of July 1st.  A page on the site (www.zuneoriginals.net) offers up thanks for all the fish, and continues to throw “damning with faint praise” …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
July 2nd, 2011 at 6:02 pm

First step for Xbox LIVE on Windows 8: Games for Windows Marketplace merging with Xbox.com

A post on the Games for Windows Marketplace website today was made announcing that Games for Windows Marketplace will be fully transitioning to Xbox.com:

Site Merge

The announcement is also followed by the Games for Windows newsletter, which states:

Games for

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By damaster in Featured News
July 2nd, 2011 at 6:27 am

Huge wave of official apps arrives at Windows Phone Marketplace; reaches 25,000 apps

On July 1, 2011, the Windows Phone Marketplace has reached an important milestone – reaching 25,000 apps in total. While we’ve seen quite a bit of "spam apps" in the marketplace (despite introducing a 20-app limit to bulk app publishing…

By damaster in Featured Mobile
July 2nd, 2011 at 4:48 am

Hotmail: It’s fast. Is that enough?

Today over at Inside Windows Live, Dick Craddock walks us through some recent work, just released, on Hotmail, citing some impressive speed improvements.  By modernizing Hotmail to make better use of caching, pre-loading, and asynchronous operations, speed has …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Opinion
June 30th, 2011 at 12:06 pm

HTC Eternity with front facing camera coming for Windows Phone Mango

So after the Acer W4 and the Nokia Sea Ray, details about another device lined up for Windows Phone "Mango" release later this is has been leaked – the HTC Eternity. German website HTCInside leaked the details and …

By damaster in Mobile
June 30th, 2011 at 8:16 am

Bing Maps World Tour application updated

Hey, have you checked the Bing Maps World Tour application lately? The Tour now showcases 153 locations where Bing Maps features new outstanding high-resolution aerial imagery that is being captured and published as part of our Bing Maps Global Ortho …

By Sunshine in Bing
June 30th, 2011 at 5:06 am

Photosynth for iOS v1.1 released

Two months after the first release, the Photosynth Team released version 1.1. of the Photosynth app for iOS.

They’ve added in-app sharing via email and enhanced the saving of images to the device’s camera roll with the ability to crop. …

By Sunshine in News
June 30th, 2011 at 2:24 am

Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers

Microsoft has made available to developers the second IE10 platform preview.

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With the second Platform Preview, developers can start working with several site-ready HTML5 technologies for building beautiful, interactive Web applications with great performance and security. You can read the …

By Sunshine in News
June 30th, 2011 at 2:01 am

Facebook on Windows Phone: now with Push Notifications

There’s been quite a flurry of activity in Windows Phone land in the past few days, beginning with the long awaited arrival of Angry Birds, the release of a Mango build for developers’ devices, lots more new apps (we’ll have …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
June 29th, 2011 at 10:43 pm

Mango is here (for developers)

Yesterday it was Angry Birds available a day early (well, after being months late), and today, developers enrolled via the Windows Phone App Hub (after paying $99) or DreamSpark members (free for students) can get “Mango” on their Windows Phones, …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
June 29th, 2011 at 9:51 am
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