June, 2011

Angry Birds (finally) available for Windows Phone: get it now

Officially, the long awaited (and long overdue) Birds vs. Pigs game from Rovio is now available on the Windows Phone platform.  You can download it, using the Zune software, from here.

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Angry Birds, the immensely popular and deceptively simple …

Windows Phone codenamed “Tango” coming after Mango?

Windows Phone TangoA few days ago reports came out from Taiwanese news agency ChinaTimes.com (English version) that Ray Chen, President & CEO of Compal Communications, announced that they have signed a licensing deal with Microsoft as the first ODM (Original …

Office 365 drops beta tag, final pricing and plans revealed

Office 365In just less than two hours (10AM EDT), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is set to launch their Office 365 cloud computing service in a New York launch party. Office 365 had been available for beta testing since October last year …

Windows Phone “Mango” ROM reveals more juicy details

While we know that the Windows Phone "Mango" beta is not far from us (at least for developers), it appears that a copy of the dumped ROM has been leaked to the hands of WPSauce. According to WPSauce (via WMPU

Hotmail just keeps adding features: live sidebar calendar, more… can we keep up?

Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, Dick Craddock introduced some new features in Hotmail, including new right click and keyboard shortcut functionality. What he didn’t tell you about was at least two more new feature we’re seeing, a …

First Nokia Windows Phone handset revealed by Stephen Elop

After the several rumors coming out about Nokia Windows Phones recently, it appears the first device picture of the Nokia Windows Phone has been leaked to the web. Hungarian website Technet.hu recently posted a few pictures showing what the new …

Skype inches closer towards Windows Live Messenger, adds Facebook integration

Microsoft announced that it would purchase Skype for $8.5 billion back in May 2011, and a few days ago the US Federal Trade Commission just approved the deal. While the deal is still pending antitrust approvals from other jurisdictions, …

Nokia Windows Phones to be announced on October 26?

After Nokia and Microsoft has inked the deal back in April, We’ve heard quite a bit of rumors around lately about Nokia Windows Phones, said to be launched sometime in Q4 2011. Rumor has it that the first wave of …

Windows Phone “Mango” public beta to be available to App Hub developers in the next 24 hours?

Windows Phone 7.5 BetaMicrosoft lifted the embargo yesterday on Windows Phone "Mango", and various websites around the internet had been giving Windows Phone "Mango" beta an in-depth review, reportedly using the production devices given out by Microsoft for review purposes. You may …

So. Mango is cool… but will it sell?

wp7logo_printSome sort of a flood of Mango hands on reviews released tonight, and everyone from Paul Thurrott to Gizmodo to Ina Fried at All Things D to Tom Warren at WinRumors are gushing over the new update to Windows Phone, …