Mobile Application

Real estate service Zillow has just come out with an app for Windows Mobile phones, reports PocketNow. This popular application, available both on the web and multiple mobile platforms, lets home owners and potential home buyers look up what homes are for sale and check out the home prices in any…

The Bing app for Windows phones has just been updated with new features, the most exciting of which is an improved navigation feature that now offers turn-by-turn directions. For owners of Windows 6.x phones, the Bing Maps component of the app can now guide you to your destination, complete with…

If you’re a fan of Dropbox, the service for storing, sharing and syncing files between Internet-connected devices, you’ll be glad to hear that a Dropbox client is now in development for Windows Mobile phones. The first beta will be available in just a few days, announces the Ruttensoft website…

Hulu, are you listening? A company called Clarity Consulting has created a gorgeous Hulu app concept for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS to show off how a media-rich application could look on the new devices. (They also have a Yelp concept app, a news app and an NBA tracker, too). According to a…

Ford SYNC, an in-car communications and entertainment technology developed by Microsoft and Ford based on the Microsoft Auto platform, is currently available in a number of Ford vehicles including the Focus, Edge, Explorer, Taurus, and others, including a few from Mercury and Lincoln. However, 2011…

The Bing app for the iPhone and iPod Touch has just been re-launched in the iTunes App Store with a number of new improvements based on user feedback. Among the usual bug fixes and tweaks, there are several new features worth checking out, too in this latest version. First of all - and perhaps my…

Since the announcement of the Windows Phone 7 Series, a new mobile operating system that provides a completely refreshed look-and-feel (and back-end!) for Windows Mobile devices, many developers have been asking how they can get started building applications for this new OS. As John Mullinax, a…

I just came across an interesting Microsoft Research Project called Merlion which lets you run desktop applications on a mobile phone. The way the system works is that it allows a mobile phone user (on any mobile OS) access to a remote server running some sort of remote desktop software like VNC.…

When the Windows Marketplace for Mobile first launched in October it only supported Windows Mobile 6.5 phones – the latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system. But now the marketplace opened up so users of 6.0 and 6.1 devices can buy and download mobile apps as well. Now those…

The Windows Live Messenger service is now available through Nokia’s “Messaging Chat” application, software that comes pre-installed on select Nokia phones. Within this application, you can chat with friends, maintain buddy lists, update your status message, and even have multiple conversations at…