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Starting tomorrow, we’ll be at the MobileBeat 2011 conference in downtown San Francisco and there’s still time for some last-minute tickets if you want to be a part of the action. With multiple thought leaders in the mobile industry, MobileBeat is a great way to see what’s coming down the road, check out the next…
Aside from its Android tablets, Dell is preparing to return to the “Windows tablet scene.” What we have here is the upcoming Dell Peju, which we’re hearing will be launched at some point in October. We’re talking about a high-end device with Intel’s Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64 or 128 GB of SSD…
Orange UK has teamed-up with Microsoft to offer free apps to its Windows Phone 7 users. Both pay-as-you-go and monthly paying customers will benefit from this offer, which will see the two companies giving away apps worth 70 GBP in July. Selected applications, ranging from travel to sports to games, will be offered through Orange…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, launched in October of last year, is due to get a major update this fall codenamed Mango. Some of the new features it’ll bring to the table are a new web browser based on the same code used to build Internet Explore 9 for Windows, multitasking support for third party…
If you like to go to sporting events or music shows and StubHub is typically your first stop, an official application is now available for Windows Phone 7 devices. With StubHub for Windows Phone 7, you can search for tickets and buy and sell them while you’re out and about. If you use PayPal or…
Foursquare was one of our favourite apps for Windows Phone when the platform launched last fall, but it was still clung pretty closely to the standard Metro user interface. Over the long weekend, Foursquare changed things up a bit. You can still find nearby places and specials, see where your friends are, search for spots…
According to a site called WindowsPhoneApplist there are now over 25,000 applications available for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone platform. With Windows Phone having launched back in late October 2010, that would mean that it’s taken between 8 and 9 months to achieve this figure. For the sake of comparison, Apple announced that it has 25,000…
If you a) like watching music videos while on the go; and b) own a Windows Phone 7 device, you’ll be glad to know VEVO has released a new mobile app for Microsoft’s latest mobile platform. The new application comes on the heels of existing iOS and Android versions, offering pretty much the same feature…
If the HTC Eternity is a sign of things to come for future HTC or Windows Phone 7 devices, it’s really time to get pumped. This new Windows Phone handset retains HTC’s design cues, but it is much larger and more powerful than what we’ve seen in a Windows Phone device before. The Eternity boasts…
The Windows Phone Facebook app has just received a major update to include push notifications. The updated Windows Phone Facebook app will now include push notifications for actions like messages, feed comments, photo tags, photo comments, tagged photo comments and more. The major advantage of the push notification is that you don’t have to dive…