Mobile

One of my hands-down favorite applications for mobile devices is the price-comparison app ShopSavvy, already popular on a number of mobile platforms today. Recently, the developers gave us a sneak peek of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 version of the application by way of a post on their company…

We recently covered a new Foursquare application for Windows Phone called MySquare, but it was for Windows Phone 6.0+. What we’re really interested in is Foursquare for the new Windows Phone 7. And now we have it! From mobile development firm Touchality (also makers of the beta Foursquare app…

For those of you using Windows Phone, your only option for a dedicated Foursquare mobile application so far has been Wimosquare, still in beta. But now, there’s a new Foursquare client in development, reports Pocketnow, who spotted the mention of the app over on the XDA-developers forum. …

Silverlight technology is now available for Symbian devices by way of a new download from Nokia’s OVI store. The latest release works on S60 5th edition phones, a lineup which includes the Nokia XpressMusic, N97 and N97 Mini, which are used by 20+ million users worldwide. The Silverlight…

The Bing Team just announced that the Bing application for the iPhone and iPod Touch has now been updated with several new features, including new social elements, barcode scanning technology, and a better movies section. From the home page, you’ll notice a “Social” option. You can use this feature…

Good news from the Windows Live team – the Windows Live Calendar service is now available as a mobile application on your smartphone. Within the new mobile web-based application, you can manage your calendar, including adding new events, browsing upcoming events, previewing event details, setting…

In this walkthrough, we will create a table shuffleboard style game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight. Many bars feature these long wooden table games, in which players slide metal pucks down the length of the table, attempting to get as close as possible to the far end without sliding off the…

Bing is going to release a World Cup badge on the location-based mobile “check in” service Foursquare which can only be unlocked by those who follow the Bing account on the service, reports TechCrunch.  To earn the badge, Foursquare users have to check into local hotspots like bars,…

One of the more notable features of the upcoming version of Windows Phone 7 operating system was just detailed in a recent post on the Windows Phone Developer blog. Called “private beta distribution,” this new feature lets developers or IT admins distribute smartphone applications in private, test…

MSN recently updated its main website, available at MSN.com, to the the new design that has been in beta for many months. As we previously mentioned here, the new MSN focuses not only on delivering a cleaner look-and-feel, but also includes more social sharing features, local content and…