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  • WP7 Mango Launch Event Tomorrow Adds 500+ New Features

    Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft confirmed today at the Japanese Microsoft Developer Forum 2011 tomorrow’s WP7 Mango preview event. He referred to it as the “Mango launch event”. He also told the audience that they “came to market with Windows Phone about a year later than” he wished they had.

    You can catch the reference to the 500 additional features to be added at the 0:50 point. The features we are currently aware of are: IE9, Fast app switching, Twitter Integration + Messenger, Turn-by-turn navigation, Dictation support, Unified Inbox, Bing Audio/Vision, New languages, Podcast support on Zune and Smart DJ, to name a few.

    Windows Phone 7 is also set to arrive in Japan Mango ready later this year.

  • 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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  • 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 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