By Adriana Lee |
Google versus Apple is so over. It’s all about Google versus Microsoft now. Yes, I know that Google CEO Larry Page told I/O attendees that companies shouldn’t be pitted against each together in the press, but it’s sort of tough not to when those companies…
By Todd Haselton |
Last June Microsoft announced that its Windows Phone Store was home to more than 100,000 applications. That wasn’t too shabby at the time considering that the operating system was still relatively new in the grand scheme of mobile operating systems. Now, however, in conjunction with…
By Todd Haselton |
Hulu Plus will finally launch for Windows Phone 8 on Monday, Engadget said recently. The service costs $7.99 and allows you to stream television shows and movies directly to your Windows Phone device, although the subscription will also allow you the same access on various platforms…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new beta of the Facebook application for Windows Phone that it promises has a major redesign. As with all betas, the product is not final and will likely have several bugs, and Microsoft wants to know about them. So what’s…
By Adriana Lee |
Microsoft wants Android users, and it wants them bad. And so, hoping they defect to Windows Phone, the company will be appealing to them directly where they live — on an Android device. Toward that end, the company will be launching an Android app called “Switch…
By Todd Haselton |
Tumblr released an official Windows Phone application on Tuesday, which is great news for those of us who have been trying to find a decent alternative. The application allows you to “post anything from anywhere,” including quotes, links, photos, text, chats and videos. You can…
By Brandon Russell |
Temple Run, one of the most popular endless runners around, is finally arriving for Windows Phone—months after Microsoft promised the game would launch. Better late than never, even though Temple Run 2 is already available for iOS and Android. It may not seem like a…
By Todd Haselton |
We’re pretty sure Instagram is going to make its way to Windows Phone at some point, especially since recent leaks have displayed the social network running on the platform (see below), but the company doesn’t seem to be too excited to port it over quickly.…
By Brandon Russell |
Whether you use(d) Google Maps on Windows Phone or not, the fact that Google actively blocked users from accessing the platform through the Web was more than irksome. Maybe it’s more the idea that Google would go to those lengths, cutoff users, than actually missing…
By Brandon Russell |
Google on Wednesday said it has no future plans to build apps for Windows 8 or Windows Phone, claiming that neither has adequate install bases. Harsh, very harsh. According to Google Apps product management director Clay Bavor, the search giant feels the investment won’t be…
By Todd Haselton |
During an event in San Francisco today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop unveiled a new cloud-based mapping service called “Here.” The service will allow users to access Nokia maps across multiple devices, whether it’s a computer, a tablet or a smartphone, and it’s independent of operating…
By Todd Haselton |
Zynga’s hit titles Draw Something and Words With Friends are now available for Windows Phone. Microsoft promised the titles several months ago and both are free for owners of Nokia’s Lumia-branded Windows Phone handsets for the next two months. Unfortunately, early downloaders are already calling for…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple recently said that there are 700,000 iOS applications in its iTunes App Store. Google’s Android platform, which has typically trailed Apple’s iOS in terms of the number of applications available to its users, is now all caught up. AllThingsD today said that a Google source…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore took the stage in San Francisco today, where we’re reporting live, to introduce all of the final new features of Windows Phone 8. During his introduction, Belfiore said the Windows Phone app store is now home to more than 120,000 applications. We’re…
By Todd Haselton |
Talk about a lot of sore thumbs: WhatsApp recently announced that its users sent more than 10 billion messages in one day. The company said there were a total of 4 billion inbound messages and 6 billion messages sent through the service on Aug. 23.…
By Killian Bell |
It seems like its all bad news for Research in Motion these days, but the Canadian company does have something to smile about today after its BlackBerry App World surpassed 3 billion downloads. The marketplace currently sees around 2.5 million downloads each and every day,…
By Adriana Lee |
Being an independent app developer is a tall order these days. They have to battle multiple APIs, changing SDKs and a mountain of competition, all for the very slim chances of just being noticed (much less successful). So when apps manage to rise to the…
By Mark Hearn |
A recent study conducted by ABI Research notes that 70 percent of mobile app users spend “either nothing or very little” on mobile applications. ABI’s study suggests that the mobile application market relies heavily on big spenders as opposed to casual consumers. The highest spending…
By Brandon Russell |
Windows Phone’s updated Translator App is making it easier than ever to travel in a foreign country. Users simply point their device’s camera at a street sign, poster or restaurant menu, and the Bing-powered app will overlay a translated version of the original language in…
By Killian Bell |
If they haven’t already, statistics show that most of your BlackBerry-wielding friends will soon be dumping their devices in favor of Android or iOS. When that time comes, you’ll be left with an empty BlackBerry Messenger contacts list and no one to talk to. Thankfully,…
By Killian Bell |
In a bid to compete with cloud storage services like Dropbox and iCloud, Microsoft has been making some huge improvements to SkyDrive in recent months, with integration into the Windows Phone operating system, support for HTML5 video, and mobile apps for iOS and Windows Phone.…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook for Windows Phone isn’t nearly as robust as it is on Android or the iPhone; scrolling can be a mess and it is not nearly as easy to access all of Facebook’s mobile features. Thankfully, the social network announced on Tuesday that it is…
By Killian Bell |
Having already brought OneNote to iOS last January, breaking its exclusivity to Windows Phone, Microsoft has now launched its popular note-taking applications on Android. The company announced its availability in the Android Market in a blog post on Tuesday: For all of you who’ve been…
By Brandon Russell |
When Microsoft held its final ever CES appearance early last month, one notable absence from the show was Skype for Windows Phone. After all, the Remond-based company acquired the communication service all the way back in May 2011, so its arrival has been a long…
