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by Rich Edmonds
May 17, 2012
The AdDuplex team have announced on their blog today a new referral feature, which Windows Phone developers can now take advantage of. The advertising service is available for all developers on...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 16, 2012
It was only yesterday that we covered the availability of Metro^7, a custom ROM for the Lumia 710. Now we're pleased to announce another custom ROM has been published on the XDA forums -...
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by Daniel Rubino
May 14, 2012
Big news for the Windows Phone platform today as Aviary announced their SDK is now available for developers, allowing the integration of their free, highly regarded and powerful photo tools for apps...
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by JayTBennett
May 10, 2012
Before you rush to your phone, it's not in the marketplace just yet! However I'm pleased to announce that the official WPCentral app v2.2 has been finalised and was submitted for...
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by Dave Blake
May 10, 2012
It’s time to talk developers and apps again. Over at the Windows Phone Central Forums, we have spotlight forums dedicated to developer discussions on their apps.This week our developers have...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 10, 2012
The Windows Phone team are asking developers for their thoughts on the entire process of creating and updating apps / titles on the platform. A developer survey is available for participants to...
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by George Ponder
May 08, 2012
Verious Inc is a leader in connecting developers with components and services for mobile app developer and they have a strong presence with iOS and Android development. Today the company has added...
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by Daniel Rubino
May 07, 2012
Back in January, we brought you the news of the first independent Windows Phone developer conference not sponsored by Microsoft called WP DevCon occurring October 22-24th in Burlingame, CA.
The...
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by Daniel Rubino
May 04, 2012
Recently, Microsoft announced some recent changes to the Windows Phone Marketplace for developers that would also affect consumers. The changes were divided into four areas, including trademarks,...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 02, 2012
Microsoft has announced an upcoming Windows Phone developer summit, which will be held in San Francisco on June 20-21. The company is set to activate plans to attract more developers and big-name...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 01, 2012
The Windows Phone User Group, a meetup that's organised by platform developers for developers, is changing for the next calendar entry. On Saturday, May 19th, the WPUG will be held at the same...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 29, 2012
This week in our Windows Phone developer interview series we're joined by David Hamilton, CTO and Co-Founder of Pepper. We took a quick look at Pepper from a recent Windows Phone User Group meet...
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by RogueCode
Apr 24, 2012
In September of last year we wrote about the startup created by two ex-Microsofties called Buddy.
Buddy is a cloud platform that has support for all the major mobile Operating Systems (and HTML5),...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 24, 2012
We got word from some Nokia folks that if you make apps for Windows Phone, you'll want to take a short moment to fill out a nice little developer survey that's evaluating the smartphone...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 19, 2012
If you're an extremely busy developer with little time available to submit your app(s) to emerging markets that are being added to the ecosystem, then Microsoft is ready to lend a hand....
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by RogueCode
Apr 18, 2012
Last time we touched on Taptitude they had just hit 100'000 download, and were doing pretty well for themselves. And it's only gotten better from there.
Taptitude is a game made by four...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 17, 2012
Are you a fearless tribesman, ready to lead the pack? We bet you are you animal, you. Microsoft and Nokia are looking to unleash a number of "code warriors" in 14 cities to pack a punch on...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 13, 2012
Back in January we reported that ChevronWP7 Labs, the officially-sanctioned "jailbreak" service for Windows Phone "homebrew", was coming to a halt. At the time, the reasons cited...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 12, 2012
We reported a few days ago that Microsoft was experiencing a unique problem: the Windows Phone Marketplace has grown so much, so fast that their servers and backend getting hammered, resulting in...
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by Seth Brodeur
Apr 12, 2012
Microsoft and Nokia are looking for new Windows Phone 7.5 apps to showcase in their next UK advertising campaign. They have kicked off a new competition in which developers can submit their...
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by RogueCode
Apr 10, 2012
The guys (and gals) over at XDA regularly provide the Windows Phone community with homebrew apps that fill some gap that non-native apps cannot.
One of these gaps is screenshots. The Windows Phone...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 08, 2012
Microsoft is offering student developers who reside in the U.S. a chance to win a Windows Phone. There are some superb ways to get involved with development on the platform whilst studying at...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 05, 2012
The question of whether or not today's Windows Phone apps will be able to work on the next "major version" of Windows Phone aka 'Apollo' or Windows Phone 8 was never a major...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 04, 2012
We've noticed in our Twitter stream and from interacting with developers that there have been quite a few delays with Windows Phone Marketplace submissions. Before, it would take around 72 hours...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 04, 2012
Developed Down Under is an upcoming app, developed by Mobile Wares, that will be of use for Windows Phone owners and developers who reside in Australia. The free app will allow developers to...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 03, 2012
Should you be a UK student (above the age of 16) and are developing for the Windows Phone platform, you'll be in with a chance of winning one of a 100 Lumia 800s that are being given away to...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 02, 2012
Elan Feingold, co-founder of Plex, has shared his thoughts on the experience the company has had with development on the platform thus far. Plex recently released the official app for Windows Phone...
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by Rafael Rivera
Mar 28, 2012
Windows Phone hacker Heathcliff74 is announcing the immediate availability WP7 Root Tools 0.9 today. 'Root Tools is a suite of tools for Windows Phone that we've been following...
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by Daniel Rubino
Mar 28, 2012
Ah, we always loves these cool little projects for Windows Phone enthusiasts.
Take this case where, as our title says, 28 separate Windows Phones were linked together and controlled by one phone...
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by Daniel Rubino
Mar 26, 2012
Take heed developers, you'll want to go update your Windows Phone SDK to the official 7.1.1 version which was just released today.
This latest update offers support for 256MB RAM devices aka...