Zombies, Run! Shambles its way onto the Marketplace

Windows Phone has a distinct lack of running assistance apps now that MyRunKeeper bowed out of supporting their app. Endomondo Sport Tracker is currently the best, but what if you have trouble motivating yourself to run every day? Zombies, Run! could be the answer for you. The app allows...

Ubisoft Makes UPlay App Available for Windows Phone

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Ubisoft has been on a roll lately with its Windows Phone support. First we got an app for Yourself Fitness 2012 to keep track of all those calories and exercise routines and now they’ve brought UPlay into the fold. The app lets you keep track of all your points you’ve earned...

Desktop Gadgets Going the Way of the Dodo in Windows 8

If you’re a fan of the desktop gadgets that were originally introduced in Windows Vista, I’ve got some bad news for you. According to Win8China, in the latest internal build if Windows 8, these gadgets are no longer supported. The gadgets originally introduced in Vista relied...

MetroTube Resurrected as a Free App

A few months ago we brought you the sad news that the developers of MetroTube, Lazyworm Apps, would be discontinuing MetroTube as it could not guarantee the future of the app. Because there is no official support for a YouTube app on Windows Phone, several workarounds had to be used in...

KakaoTalk Makes the Jump to Windows Phone

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WhatsApp has been king of multi-platform messengers on Windows Phone for a while, but the app now has competition as Kakao Talk has finally joined the Windows Phone fold. Kakao Talk supports all major platforms now, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Bada and now Windows Phone. The new...

Bejeweled LIVE is the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week

One of my earliest memories of begging my mother for my own computer was that she spent too much time hogging the family computer playing Bejeweled on MSN Games. The Internet has come a long way since those screechy days of dial-up and so has Bejeweled. If you’re a fan of...

Photo Genius by Aviary snaps into the Marketplace

Putting filters on photos is all the rage these days thanks in large part to Instagram. We’ve got several options on Windows Phone for adding that extra bit of style to your photos, but the newest addition is Photo Genius by Aviary. Aviary is a company that released their photo...

Microsoft Executive Thinks Budget WP8 Phones are a Possibility

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With the focus on Windows Phone 7 handsets being the budget market, many users have wondered if we’ll see the same cost-conscious effort from Microsoft with Windows Phone 8 devices, which ship with much beefier hardware than the 256MB of RAM some Tango devices received. Senior...

Bill Gates says Surface tablets won’t affect OEM partnerships

When Microsoft unveiled the Surface tablets we wondered what OEMs were thinking. It’s always interesting when a software company decides to make it’s own hardware because then they become a competitor with the hardware partners they usually rely on. Bill Gates has been quiet...

Lumia 800 & 900 Win Gold IDEA Awards for Design

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Despite the outrage of the Lumia 900 being considered an outdated device just three months after its launch, Nokia is still winning awards for the design of both it and its sister handset the Lumia 800. The International Design Excellence Awards decided to bestow the honor upon both...