Marketplace Updates

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Remember the Race To Market Developer Challenge? Well, today some of the winners got announced over at The Windows Mobile Developer Blog.

  • The winner for most downloaded app is Meon Lite from Manbolo.
  • The winner for highest value
By Sunshine in Featured Mobile
February 16th, 2010 at 5:18 pm

Live ID issue due to problem server (now fixed)

Just a follow-up on this morning’s Live ID sign in issues, the problem lasted for about an hour, as explained by Arthur de Haan on the Inside Windows Live blog:

As some of you may have noticed (we heard

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 16th, 2010 at 3:45 am

Windows Phone 7 Series: Bold move for Microsoft

WP7logo Today at MWC in Barcelona, Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 7 Series, its new look software platform for Windows Phones, to be delivered by “Holiday Season 2010”.  First, a note that Microsoft pulled off a surprisingly clean announcement, …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 15th, 2010 at 6:17 pm

Windows Phone press conference (someone peeked!)

Just getting ready to watch the Windows Phone Press conference (http://livesi.de/b1jp4j), but there are already some bits of news coming out of Barcelona.

First, it looks like someone peeked behind the curtains and found some images of the …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 15th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

Windows Phone: Our first impressions (what are yours?)

WP7logo We’ve been poring over all the blog posts and tweets (when Twitter manages to stay up) about Windows Phone 7 Series, and aside from being pretty impressed, we’ve come away with a few first impressions.  Of course we’re only going …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 15th, 2010 at 2:01 am

Mobile World Congress set to begin: Global Apps Platform coming?

mwc We’re getting ready to follow all the fun in Barcelona (early) tomorrow morning (Seattle time, that is), setting up some Twitter and RSS feeds, and we already came across one little tidbit.  On the Mobile Business News RSS feed, we …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 14th, 2010 at 5:36 am

Ready… Set…Windows Phone (7 Series)

Microsoft is finally ready to start talking about “the next generation of Windows Phones” at Mobile World Congress on Monday, and there’s been a little flurry of activity this weekend with some new new info and some new rumors about …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 13th, 2010 at 8:31 pm

Bing Maps at TED – Blaise’s session now available

Blaise Aguera y Arcas showed off some very cool new stuff from Bing Maps at TED a couple of days ago, and the video has just been posted, so here it is:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/766

Just a note that the Streetside Photos

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 13th, 2010 at 7:17 pm

Bing Maps Imagery Release, February 2010

In this release over one million square kilometers of new imagery got added. This is a very special release because, for the first time ever, Enhanced Bird’s Eye imagery got added outside of the United States!

Bird’s Eye: Italy –

By Sunshine in Bing
February 12th, 2010 at 3:25 pm

MSN preview updates My Apps

Looks like the msn.com/preview has been updated, or at least the “my apps” portion of the home page.  Before, there were three tabs, for Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live, and a separate Hotmail section, but now two new apps have …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 12th, 2010 at 9:50 am