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Portico update finally available to Lumia 920s from BUILD

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By Sam Sabri, Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:08 pm

About 2000 people attended the //BUILD/ developer conference this past fall in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft attracted attendees from all over the globe in an event that sold out in less than an hour when tickets went on sale in August. You were given a Surface RT, Lumia 920, and 100GB of SkyDrive as part of your $1600+ registration fee. Unfortunately for folks with those Lumia 920’s, you haven’t had early or timely access for the Portico update. At least until today.

New video game engines announced for Windows Phone 8

By Rich Edmonds, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:09 pm

Microsoft unveiled a number of video game engines and components amidst Windows Phone 8 announcements the company made today at its BUILD 2012 event. To provide more opportunity for game developers to get started on the platform, the company revealed a total of five new engines, as well as five new components.

Microsoft slashes Windows Phone developer registration fee to just $8 for 8 days [Update]

By Rich Edmonds, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Microsoft has announced today plans to slash its Windows Phone developer registration fee to just $8 for 8 days in an effort to get more developers on-board with the company's mobile platform.

BUILD 2012 attendees also receive free Lumia 920 from Nokia

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By Rich Edmonds, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:48 pm

Nokia popped its head on stage with Richard Kerris from the manufacturer who announced that each and every developer who attends today's BUILD event will walk away with a free Lumia 920 to incentivise further development on Windows Phone.

Stay tuned for more news, or just plain giveaways.

BUILD attendees receive 100GB SkyDrive storage and Surface RT tablet with Touch Cover

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By Rich Edmonds, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:33 pm

To show its support for developers and the ecosystem's future, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced at the company's BUILD event today that all attending developers will receive a gift - 100GB storage on SkyDrive, as well a brand new Surface RT tablet with Touch Cover.

Stay tuned for more coverage from the BUILD event.

BUILD 2012 Keynote Live Blog

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By Daniel Rubino, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:34 am

San Francisco was sooo yesterday. Today we're all up in Microsoft's homebase for their BUILD developer conference. From 9am to 11am today is the first keynote (tomorrow is the other), so we figured we'd live blog the event. For full-width live blog, you can tune in at live.mobilenations.com. Join the chat!

Windows Phone 8 SDK to be made available tomorrow at BUILD

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By Rich Edmonds, Monday, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:34 pm

Microsoft today announced availability of the Windows Phone 8 SDK. BUILD 2012 will be held tomorrow, and according to Joe Belfiore the event will mark the launch of the kit developers can use to build new apps for the next version of Windows Phone.

No Windows Phone 8 release dates revealed, saved for Build 2012?

By Rich Edmonds, Wednesday, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:48 am

Ballmer takes the stage at New York

While a handful of Windows Phone 8 ("Apollo") features were demoed by Joe Belfiore on-stage today, there was little revealed in terms of when we can look to see the next major release of Windows Phone be made available. Could Build 2012 be were Window Phone 8 is shown off completely with dates announced? It's a strong possibility.