Windows Phone

August 26, 2013
Be cool with this back to school collection of Windows Phone apps

Many parents are sending their kids off to their first day of school – and older kids are getting back in the groove of waking up at the crack of dawn – but it’s still early enough to help students get a leg up with the 23 “Back to School” collection of Windows Phone apps.

August 26, 2013
Super developer leaps Instagram app in a single bound

Rudy Huyn has two lives. In life one, he works at an office. In the other, he is a prolific and popular Windows Phone developer of more than a dozen apps for Windows Phone, including the uber-popular Wikipedia app, a Vine app called 6Sec, TVShow and he has just launched the highly anticipated 6Tag, an Instagram-like app.

August 22, 2013
‘2007 called. It wants its camera phone back!’

That’s one of the better lines from the newest Windows Phone commercial entitled “The Recital,” Microsoft’s latest irreverent take on the smartphone wars. See the new spot, which was created in the same tongue-in-cheek vein as an earlier Windows Phone commercial entitled “The Wedding.”

August 22, 2013
What a difference a year makes: Windows Phone takes second place in Latin America

In one year, the Windows Phone mobile platform has gone from fourth to second place in the Latin American region. International Data Corporation’s (IDC) recently released Mobile Phone Tracker report shows that in the second quarter of 2013, Windows Phone was the second most widely used operating system in Latin America.