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  • Brandon Foy, Creator Of Awesome Unofficial WP7 Ads Gets Hired By Microsoft

    You guys remember Brandon Foy right? Well for those who don’t he made some awesome ads for Windows Phone 7 a few months ago and received critical acclaim with some people even claiming them to be better than the ones by Microsoft themselves and we wholeheartedly agree.

    Microsoft even promised to air another video of his if it hit 200,000 views on YouTube. So today the news is that he got hired my Microsoft as a UX Director and today was his first day at work. Great to see big companies like Microsoft appreaciating the talent and letting it prosper. We can also expect much better Windows Phone ads since Brandon is in charge, so good luck mate!

    One of Brandon’s ads is embedded below:

    Source: @BrandonFoy

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  • Fable 4 Rumored To Be Released In 2013?

    It seems like Lionhead is working on a sequel to this year’s Fable 3 which could be released in 2013. This news came from US Official Xbox Magazine according to Eurogamer, it was reported as a rumor though and is still unconfirmed.


    According to the article in Eurogamer, it was stated that this will be a proper controller-enabled game unlike the upcoming Kinect only Fable: The Journey.

    Lionhead studios is currently working on releasing the Kinect exclusive Fable: The Journey which was showcased at this year’s E3. Looking at the timeline, it took 2 years to release Fable 3 after Fable 2 so a 2013 release date is not a surprise. We are still waiting for the official confirmation though and will update you as soon as it comes.

    Another possibility could be that it will be the launch title for the next Xbox which is going to be unveiled at next year’s E3 according to a rumor.

    Source: Eurogamer

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  • Windows Phone 7 Smartphones Tracking User Locations Without Permission

    According to a new report published today Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 based smartphones are tracking and sending location data to Redmond’s servers without the owner’s permission.

    The report was published by WinRumors which details the investigation Windows Phone 7 hacker and developer Rafael Rivera conducted with various versions (7004, 7390 and 7392) of the mobile Operating System.

    Rafael Rivera, famous for his work on jailbreaking Windows Phone 7, has investigated the [unauthorized location tracking] claims thoroughly. After initially labelling the claims “skimpy”, Rivera has tested the camera application in Windows Phone 7 to determine whether Microsoft sends device location information to its servers without explicit user confirmation. Rivera explains that packets are sent to agps.location.live.net and several to Microsoft’s Location Inference service hosted at inference.location.live.net.

    So basically the camera app wakes up the location service from sleep and caches the user’s location data before it’s given to the camera, so the ends up being cached in Microsoft’s servers. Microsoft issued a statement soon after:

    Microsoft is investigating the claims raised in the complaint. We take consumer privacy issues very seriously. Our objective was — and remains — to provide consumers with control over whether and how data used to determine the location of their devices are used, and we designed the Windows Phone operating system with this in mind.

    Source: WinRumors

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  • Windows Phone 7 Mango Blows All Other Phones Out Of The Water In HTML5 Browser Tests

    Ever since Microsoft announced Mango for their Windows Phone 7 platform they have been focusing on the OS’s exceptional HTML5 performance leaving behind the likes of Android, iOS and BlackBerry OS.

    So Microsoft gave us another demo at the Worldwide Partners Conference (WPC) earlier this week where an HTC Mango handset went against the Samsung Droid Charge, BlackBerry Torch and an iPhone 4 with the latest iOS 5 BETA 3. The demo on display was called ‘Fish’ where 3D fishes were being rendered onto an ocean background.

    As you could see in the video the Charge managed to pull 20fps, the Torch did 9fps, iPhone 4 managed to do around 15fps while the HTC managed a blazing fast 50fps! Now that’s what you call owning the crowd.

    Source: WMPoweruser

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  • Mandatory Xbox 360 System Update Will Be Released Today

    Major Nelson has tweeted this news yesterday which talked about a new live update for the Xbox 360. Microsoft released the last major update in May which was a huge step to combat piracy as it disabled the ability to play pirates games on flashed consoles.

    There is nothing new added in this update. According to Major Nelson “This update is preparation for additional system enhancements coming to Xbox 360 later this year.” This could mean that it is in preparation for the upcoming fall 2011 dashboard update.

    We don’t know if this update will repeat the same thing as done by previous update and reflash the console to strip away pirating capabilities. Since after the spring 2011 dashboard update hit live in May, Pirates were successfully able to counter it by releasing a new firmware which allowed a console to retain its ability to play pirated games. People could easily flash their consoles with this firmware and could even go on Live without any fear of ban as this firmware worked stealthy.

    If this update is as a counter measure for this new firmware then Microsoft is finally acknowledging the importance of piracy. This update will be released today on July 19th so better get ready for it.

    Update: It seems like this update has introduced new AP checks on certain games which includes Call of Duty: Black Ops as well. This means that pirates won’t be able to play the games which were given additional security in this update.

    Update 2: It seems to have different results on different drive. The most recent DVD drives which are Lite-On cannot play all the old AP 2.5 games due to new checks. The list of games that are not working due to new AP checks are:

    • Black Ops
    • AC Brotherhood
    • Halo Reach
    • Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
    • Fable 3

    Source: Major Nelson

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  • Windows Phone Marketplace Hits 20,000 Applications Mark

     

    Finally Windows Phone Marketplace has been able to hit the 20,000 apps mark but still it’s way behind Android Market and Appstore. Just two and half months ago Windows Phone Marketplace became the fastest store to hit the 10,000 mark and now another 10k apps have been added to it. Like all other app stores Windows Phone Marketplace has some low quality apps.

    You can expect to have loads of quality apps once the Mango tools have been released. Other than that there will be a significant increase in the number of Applications in the windows market once Nokia releases Windows Phone handsets. Some months ago Nokia started recruiting app developers which is a clear sign that Nokia wants to have much applications in the Windows Phone marketplace. We expect it to have near about 50,000 apps by the end of this year. Is this rapid increase in the number of apps for Windows Phone enough to convince you to shift to Windows Phone let us know through your comments.

    Source: Windows Phone Applist