The challenge is in full swing! Today we’ve had challengers coming at us with iPhones, Blackberries, and a whole host of Android phones. Almost all of the challenges (nearly 30 of them!) we won hands down, like this one where we showed how easy it is to find a great place to eat nearby with Local Scout:
But in a few cases – 3 to be exact – we lost by a hair:
Hotmail is the world’s leading email service, and last year we added support for Exchange Active Sync, allowing customers around the world to sync their Hotmail inbox, calendar, and contacts to their mobile phones through the power of Exchange. Although we’ve had this support for a year already, with the release of iOS 5 it is now even easier to
Version 1.2 of our project time management app has been released to the Apple AppStore. New in version 1.2 is an updated Months view that includes a calendar to let you select the day you'd like to view the time data for. We've also fixed some bugs involving the calculation of time data as well as updated it for compatability with iOS 5.
As usual; any comments, bug, or suggestions can be made here in the product support forums and we'll do our best to address them.
Here we are again for another Windows Phone Radio episode! Exciting week as Mango started to make to phones all over, we are excited to hear what you think. This week we talk about the update, new pricing for the Zune Pass music subscription service, updates to apps for Mango, launch of the suggestion box and much more! You can find Windows Phone Radio in the Zune Marketplace, in iTunes and streaming direct here.
On Friday we published the 42nd episode of Windows Phone Radio. During the show we chatted a bit about the Foursquare app, and how it will take advantage of the upcoming Mango update to Windows Phone. We shot a quick video to show of how you can not only pin the Foursquare app to your start screen, but also specific locations where you check in most. You can find Windows Phone Radio in the Zune Marketplace and iTunes in the podcasts section, or stream direct from here.
The next release of Windows Phone 7 Connector landed in the Mac App Store today. The software, which requires OS X 10.6 or later, makes it easy to sync media files from your Mac to your Windows Phone and vice versa. It’s also how Mac users update their Windows Phone software.
We promised in late July that August would bring another round of developer news. That day has come! Today we will begin accepting and certifying Mango apps through the App Hub. This means that new and existing titles optimized for Mango features like fast app switching, background audio, multiple and double sided Live Tiles, better Search integration and more will begin publishing in a matter of days.
Very special show this week, as we crash Terry Myerson’s office and ask him about the recent RTM of the Mango release coming later this fall. We also take some time to chat about some of our favorite apps of the week and recent news. You can find Windows Phone Radio in the Zune Marketplace, iTunes and streaming direct here.
