(Update: the app is available now, thanks for the tweets and comments. We received an update notice, but you can try to uninstall and reinstall if you don’t get notified)
A new version of Facebook for Windows Phone, version 2.3, …
Facebook for Windows Phone update announced
Microsoft to end “Calendar in the Hotmail inbox” test
Last June, we noticed a new feature that we were seeing, a sidebar calendar in the Hotmail inbox. While some of you reported seeing it too, we learned today that it’s going away. We asked David Dennis, a Principal …
Hotmail: best at fighting spam? (Updated, study commissioned by Microsoft, executed independently)
According to a new study by Cascade Insights, as cited by an Inside Windows Live post, Microsoft’s Hotmail narrowly beat out Gmail (and they both significantly out-performed Yahoo! Mail, and an unfiltered web host account) in a test by …
Rumor: Nokia to launch Lumia 730 at Mobile World Congress?
As we’re getting closer to Mobile World Congress 2012, more rumors are surfacing about what Microsoft and Nokia might announce at the event. We know that Nokia will be holding a press conference on February 27 at 8:30am, but …
Recap of what we know about Windows Phone “Tango”
We’ve all heard about what is coming for Windows Phone 8, codenamed “Apollo”, and how it will be designed to target higher-end devices with multi-core processors, new screen resolutions (4 in total), NFC, and more. But what about “Tango”, …
So what is happening with Zune and Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
This morning Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, revealed in his blog post the first official screenshots from Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which gave us a glimpse of the new Office 15 suite and …
Massive Windows on ARM post includes video peeks at Office 15, “Live” Metro apps
Today in an 8,000+ word epic on Windows on ARM, Steven Sinofsky finally lifted the curtains on some of what we can expect from Windows 8 running on ARM architectures, which he says will be available in the same …
Google reportedly readies GDrive, again (and again, and again)
A report from the Wall St. Journal today has Google readying a launch for its version of Dropbox/SkyDrive/iCloud (although they don’t even mention SkyDrive), called Drive. The new service, which the WSJ says may be launching “in the coming weeks …
Windows 8 leaps into the future with Feb 29 Consumer Preview launch
Microsoft has sent out invitations today to a special leap year day Consumer Preview Launch in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, and since we’ve been promised a “late February” availability for the not-a-beta, we’re assuming we’ll be able to download …
LG Miracle – First Windows Phone with NFC support?
It had been a while since LG had released another Windows Phone device, with the last one being the LG Jil Sander, commonly said to be an upgrade of the LG Optimus 7. However, Pocketnow today leaked details of …
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