marketplace

This is taken from Windows 8 blog: Reference: Blogging Windows

I am using Windows 8 Release Preview on my desktop. At present the Windows marketplace has a very limited quantity of apps. I also saw the Windows phone marketplace and it has a lot of apps. I read in the news that it has more than 100000 apps presently. I think it a possibility that when the...

We are planning hard to release the latest version of our mobile platform software for Android devices. While mobile users on platforms like Windows Phone. iOS for iPhone and iPad, as well as the browser that comes with Android-powered devices will still enjoy maximum compatibility with our...

Interested in creating a game for Windows Phone using Silverlight? In this episode, Jeff Paries, Silverlight MVP and author of the book Silverlight Animation, walks through the source for his Bird Hunt game for Windows Phone 7. He offers tips on how to create a game concept and keep your scope...

This is a special E3 episode of Hot Apps featuring the JUST ANNOUNCED Avatar Marketplace. Link Removed Link Removed

Windows Phone has proven to be a popular platform for developing a wide variety of applications. Clint Rutkas joins us on this episode to explain what "Coding4Fun" is, and how they help provide cool tools, apps, and resources to aid people in their development projects. In addition to talking in...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The popular online file-sharing service LimeWire has agreed to pay $105 million to settle charges that it was a platform for music piracy. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said Thursday that the negotiated settlement came as jurors in a federal court...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by the epic Scott Hanselman to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:44] MVP Site - 2011 MVP Summit was this week in Redmond and thousands of MVPs were in town learning about the latest and greatest Microsoft products [02:11]...

Yahoo has introduced its Flickr app for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 devices. The Flickr Windows Phone 7 app is available in the Zune Marketplace and the Windows 7 tablet app can be downloaded from the Flickr website.     Key features of the Flickr app include: *Swipe through panoramic blades...

Elliot Forde is just like any other 12 year old. He likes to hang with his friends, play video games and wrestle with his dog. The difference is Elliot is a self taught Windows Phone developer whose app is rising to the top of the marketplace! We stopped by his home to catch Elliot in his...

Matt, who is the new head of developer and marketplace for Windows Phone 7, takes us through his favorite new apps from Mobile World Congress. Link Removed More...

Thinking about writing a touch intensive Windows Phone 7 application? David Kelley of Wirestone shares his experience in creating rich experiences with Silverlight. David has been involved with many high profile applications and he shows off both the Jordan Deep Zoom mosaic and his Simon for...

Link Removed - Invalid URL While we’ve not seen the anticipated Windows 8 first peak at CES, which was unlikely anyway given the raft of WIndows 7 tablets being launched there, new details about the OS have emerged. Technology blogger Paul Thurrott is Link Removed due to 404 Error that...

Windows 8 Center According to a source that has tipped off Techradar, Microsoft plans to use Windows 8 as an opportunity to “relaunch PC gaming.” Recently hired Rahul Sood, who had founded luxury computer manfacturer Vodoo PC, was quoted saying that The company has induced some...

New Windows Phone 7 applications are being uploaded to the marketplace all the time. But is your application standing out? This week, John and Corrina Black kick off a new Silverlight TV mini series called "Windows Phone 7 Design Tips with Corrina" to highlight ways you can improve the design of...

Dmitry Lyalin, my co-host on the Link Removed, recently developed a Windows Phone 7 application for Leo Laporte’s This Week In Tech (TWiT) network. The application recently reached as high as #2 on the Top Rated Apps list in the marketplace! Dmitry spoke at the January 2011 meeting of the New...

We met James Browning, the CEO of Executive Caddie, at a Windows Phone 7 Firestarter event last Fall. James was extremely impressed by the features and potential of Windows Phone 7, and set off on moving his successful iPhone application to the new platform. Four months later, Executive Caddie...

STALKER £0.75p on GFWL marketplace one day special S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Games For Windows BUY NOW! Daily Deal bargain price ends 7 December 2010 at 16:30. In 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power station. Soviet authorities established a 30km 'Exclusion Zone'...

An anonymous reader writes "Developers have released a 'jailbreak' tool for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, allowing the handsets to run any application, not just those approved for distribution through Microsoft's Marketplace. Although reminiscent of jailbreak tools for the iPhone, this tool...

Not a huge surprise, but Amazon UK has followed the USA versions "black friday" sale, so as well as many games having reasonable discount, you'll also find quite a lot with bigger reductions, just in time for chrimbo Items on sale apparently change daily so you'll need to check every day while...