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  • Study: Windows 98 web traffic beating Windows Phone 7

    Image via Wikipedia According to Don Reisinger, the writer of The Digital Home column over at cnet has written about a study by the web advertising company Chitika that says that traffic from Windows 98 is still greater the the traffic seen coming from Windows Phone 7 devices. According to their statistics, Windows 98 (probably…

  • Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7…In a few months

    Rovio, the creators of the fantastic and addictive game Angry Birds has stated on their Twitter account that Angry Birds is coming to Windows Phone 7.  Unfortunately, Angry Birds on WP7 is still some months off.  As you may remember, Microsoft was accused of falsely advertising Angry Birds on their platform (which we spoke about…

  • NES emulator on Windows Phone 7! But Microsoft says no way.

    After just a couple of hours of work, a man by the name of Matt Bettcher took the SharpNES open source NES emulator and ported it to Windows Phone 7.  As you can see in the video below, it seems to run good but a little slow although Bettcher is optimistic that optimizations can be…

  • Windows Phone 7 passes 5,000 apps while Android hits 200,000

    A pair of stories have surfaced today showing the latest app numbers from Windows Phone 7 and Android. Windows Phone 7 has reportedly now hit 5,000 apps in its marketplace.  The average app cost on WP7 is currently $1.51.  Of those 5,000 apps, over 1,100 are games which is a rather impressive number.  To check…

  • How to find the best Windows Phone 7 apps

    Earlier today, I came across a great show for Windows Phone 7 owners called Hot Apps.  The show is created by Microsoft’s Channel 9 and does a great job of highlighting some of the best apps on the platform.  I will admit it is no Big App Show (the best way to find great iPhone…

  • Windows Phone 7 developer releases sales data & its not good

    Apparently Microsoft is ashamed of the sales of Windows Phone 7 so far judging by their unwillingness to talk about sales numbers but now there is some data available thanks to a developer giving an idea just how bad things are doing.  Given the fact that Windows Phone 7 is still not on carriers like…