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by Rich Edmonds
May 23, 2012
Our friends over at Windows Phone Geek, the developer-based community, have announced their new marketplace (link) that caters for developers who requires tools to help them build apps on the...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 22, 2012
The WPUG Windows Phone Bar Camp was an effort to attract more attendees from an earlier start, which had everyone (including myself and Jay) head to The Vibe Bar for a 10am start. Featuring a number...
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by Rich Edmonds
May 15, 2012
It seems every time we cover news that includes the Social Mints app, it's always winning some kind of award. This story is no different as the app is one of four recently announced winners of...
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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 Dave Blake
May 13, 2012
Here at WPCentral we appreciate developers as you folks are the future of Windows Phone--your hard work will define the future of the OS and we want you to succeed. With that in our thoughts, we are...
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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 Rich Edmonds
May 10, 2012
Ready. Set. Code. The Nokia developer challenge, which we previously covered not-so-long-ago, will be kicking off this weekend. The 13-city hackathon will run through May and June, enabling...
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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 Rich Edmonds
May 07, 2012
Readers alerted us to the disappearance of Pinsation, a third-party Windows Phone Pinterest app, from the Marketplace. While it has almost become the norm for apps to mysteriously vanish from public...
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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 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 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 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 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 Rich Edmonds
Apr 04, 2012
Microsoft has teamed up with AnythingbutiPhone to provide the Windows Phone community with a number of invitation-only events across the U.S. 36 events will be held at 12 Best Buy establishments on...
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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
Mar 31, 2012
This week we've had the pleasure in being joined by Richard Castle of Igneous Software, the brains behind the BBC Radio apps and upcoming BBC Podcast Lounge. As well as a solution for BBC...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 30, 2012
The Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications of TEI of Larissa has announced another Windows Phone Developer Challenge, which will encourage students to get creative and produce some...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 26, 2012
Nokia has been doing an outstanding job rebuilding not only their own brand, but that of Microsoft's mobile division too. But is hardware enough? Not at all (as many have pointed out). We've...
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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...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 23, 2012
Telerik, the company behind the RadControls suite for Windows Phone Developers, has released an interesting update to their software. The introduced RadHubTile will enable developers to create live...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 23, 2012
Microsoft has announced the opening of AppHub submissions to the 23 new countries added to the pool of support. Developers in these countries (and beyond) will be able to submit their work to the...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 15, 2012
The Windows Phone team is set to enable AppHub access for developers to 23 more countries, which were announced late last month by Joe Belfiore, in the next two weeks. Where will we be seeing...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 13, 2012
The Windows Phone User Group (WPUG) are having another meeting in merry ol' London next Wednesday (March 21st), which will see developers getting together to share experiences, knowledge and...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 10, 2012
Press Play, the game studio behind the Xbox LIVE games Tentacles (our review) and Max & the Magic Marker (our review), has released a beta version of their Unity porting...
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