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Nokia just wrapped up a busy press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where most of the world’s smartphone industry is gathered this week. The company announced new Windows Phone 8 models, the availability of its popular location apps and services to more Windows Phones, and tantalizi ...

Getting from A to Z with your Windows Phone just got easier. Nokia today announced that its innovative collection of map and navigation apps—HERE Maps, HERE Drive Beta, and HERE Transit—are now available to all Windows Phone 8 users in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., and U.S ...

WhatsApp, the free and mega-popular cross-platform messaging app, was updated today in the Windows Phone Store. The changes in version 2.9 include a great new look and handy new features. For starters, there’s now a lock screen notification option, so you can see new messages at-a-glance. Your cha ...

The Oscars air this Sunday, capping a long month of red carpets and other award-season craziness. But Adele and the cast of Argo aren’t the only ones celebrating this month. Windows Phones have also nabbed some accolades that we’re quite jazzed about. If your attention has been elsewhere ...

This tip is an excerpt from an article entitled "Try It Out: Sideloading Windows Store Apps." To read the article in its entirety, visit the Windows Client TechCenter.By now, you are familiar with Windows Store apps. There are some pretty cool ones available in the store, and publishers are adding m ...

If pig popping has become a tradition in your family, rejoice because a new Angry Birds title has arrived. Angry Birds Seasons for Windows Phone 8 adds changing seasonal themes to this wildly popular game—everything from St. Patrick’s Day to Chinese New Year to “Winter Wonderham&rd ...

Are you in the market for a great Windows 8 notebook with a touchscreen that won’t drain your bank account? Look no further than the ASUS VivoBook X202. The past few weeks I have been spending some quality time with this little gem, and I must admit that I am very impressed. Let me first start wit ...

Bloomberg is a big name when it comes to financial info and business smarts, and their free app—formerly a Nokia exclusive—has just been redesigned and made available for all Windows Phones. Grab it from the Store using one of links below. This powerhouse app helps you track your portfolio using s ...

Whether you’ve dreamed of playing a disembodied all-powerful moon head or a fast-driving egg, it’s been a good month for indie games in the Windows Phone Store. Here are a few of my favorite new or updated titles from the last few weeks. As always, I’d love to hear about your discoveries, and don’t  ...

In this post I’ll discuss how you can optimize performance, cost, flexibility, and resiliency when building a Windows 8 storage solution. Windows 8 provides two new storage capabilities that enable optimized storage solutions based on these considerations: Storage Spaces and File History. I won’t ge ...