MetroTalk 3.0 GoogleTalk client released for Windows Phone 8
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MetroTalk is the best-rated Google Voice app for Windows Phone. It supports push notifications for instantly receiving SMS messages and voicemail, even when the app is not active. Performance and user experience have been the major focus during development.
The trial/free version is ad-supported, and comes with all the features of the full version. However if you enjoy using MetroTalk, we strongly suggest upgrading for further supporting future development.
Changelog – Version 3.0:
- New: Windows Phone 8 support
- New: Fast resume
- New: Multi-size tile support
- New: Lock-screen unread counter
- New: Text-to-speech
- New: Added ability to auto-dial a contact directly from the start screen (a new pin-to-start menu has been introduced in Call/Text)
- New: Additional folder pages can now be downloaded using a scroll-up gesture
- New: Option for enabling private mode, which hides any sender or content info for new notifications
- New: Option to disable vibrating on new messages
- Update: Added new icon for the Call/Text secondary tile
- Update: The account PIN is now hidden in settings
- Bug fix: Secondary tiles are working now on WP8
For a full list of features, please visit our website here. Feel free to contact us for any questions or feedback you have.
Price: USD $1.49
Trial: Yes (fully functional, no limitations, ad-supported)
Marketplace: bit.ly/K38MVY
Website: www.metrotalk-windowsphone.com
Day Thirteen – 25 Days of Christmas Photos
That is one beautiful snow-covered forest!
Travis shot these pictures with his Lumia 920. His dogs were also out enjoying the fresh snow. Some hot cocoa by the fireplace is definitely needed after a chilly snow storm like this!
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- Take a pic using your Windows Phone and do NOT edit it! No Instagram-style shots!
- Email the pic to [email protected], including…
- Your first name
- The phone you used
- Describe the picture, why it’s important, or whatever you want to say!
Windows Phone Store now available in 191 Markets
The Windows Phone Store team have announced a further expansion of their service.
The online webstore has added another 37 markets, taking the web store up to 112 markets, and the store on the phone itself to 191.
The new markets are:
Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (DRC), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Microsoft also announced some new features. The first is the ability to downloads XAPs and install them from SD card. The next is “universal search”, which will surface apps and “How-to” articles from the same search.
The last as an improved re-install feature, which should make it easier to restore your phone apps after a hard reset.
Read more at the Windows blog here.
Microsoft Store Windows Phone App Updated To v2.0 With The Ability To Purchase Within The App
Microsoft has updated their retail store app for Windows Phone devices. Now, you can order things from Microsoft Store catalogue within the app. Older features such as locating nearest Microsoft Store, Scheduling an Answer Desk or Personal Training, etc, are still present in this app.
New in version 2.0:
• View online Microsoft Store catalog
• See details on specific products in the online store
• Search for products in the online store
• See special offers currently available at the online store
• Purchase products from the online store to have shipped to your home
• Share details of a product you like with a friend
• See a list of all the stores closest to your current location
• Easily switch to nearby store
• View image of actual store
• Updated directions how to find the store
• New link to online Answer Desk services
• See events happening at your store
• Share details of an event at your nearby store with a friend
• Read latest stories from Microsoft News website and Microsoft Official Blog
• Receive notifications on your phone about special offers and events as your nearby store
Download it here from Windows Phone Store for free.
Windows Phone And Core77 Announces “App To The Future” Design Contest
For the second year in a row, Microsoft has partnered with Core77 to run a design contest for Windows Phone developers. 5 winners will be awarded with Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8 device and 1 year Windows Phone developer subscription. To participate in the challenge, you must submit a design concept by February 3, 2013.
Design an app for Windows Phone that showcases how to create, connect or impress the pants off your future self. Apps are a way to take control of your day-to-day life. Today they help you wake up, dress, commute, stay on top of news and reach the important people in your life throughout the day, and at their best they help you do things the way YOU want to do them. But what more could your apps do for you tomorrow?
Read more about the contest here.
via: Windows Phone blog
Windows Live Mesh To Be Officially Retired On February 13, 2013
Microsoft today announced that Windows Live Mesh will be officially retired on Feb 13, 2013. Live Mesh was started as an ambitious project by Microsoft as their cloud desktop under the guidance of former executive Ray Ozzie. However it lost its way competing with internal teams such as Windows. Later, Microsoft rebranded Live Mesh as Windows Live Mesh and removed some features to integrate it with SkyDrive….
Read more at Microsoft News
IDC: More than 1/3 Of Developers Very Interested In Developing For Windows Tablets And Windows Phone
IDC today released their Appcelerator quarterly report for Q4 2012. According to the report, 36% of the developers surveyed by IDC were interested in Microsoft’s mobile platform Windows Phone. The same number of developers were also interested in Windows tablets.
While not the biggest number, it is pretty good considering the size of the Windows Phone and Windows 8 tablet installed base.
Platform device sales is the major concern for developers to invest in both the Microsoft’s platforms. I hope the sales numbers of Windows Phone devices and Windows tablets will grow significantly in 2013 which will lead to more developer interest.
IDC commented the following on Microsoft Surface interest among developers,
Developers are impressed with the tablet hardware delivered by Microsoft through its Surface offering. However, they believe Microsoft still has significant work to do to make Windows 8 a successful mobile platform. 20% of developers are impressed with the hardware and think it will accelerate Microsoft’s mobile ambitions. However, 35.5% of developers believe that while the tablet may be a nice piece of hardware, Microsoft needs more to be successful. To accelerate the success of the Windows platform for mobile devices, the company will need to make investments in developer relations and application enablement.
Read the full report from the link below.
Source: Appcelerator/IDC
Great news UK: Surface tablets to be available at John Lewis stores this weekend
For some reason Microsoft has been only slowly releasing the news of which retailers will be carrying their Surface tablets around the world. For UK Pocket-lint has the amazing news that John Lewis will be carrying the Windows RT tablets both online and in store starting this weekend…
Read more at Microsoft News
Apple found to violate 3 Nokia and Sony patents
Jurors in Wilmington, Delaware today found Apple was in violation of 3 patents held by MobileMedia, a consortium created by Nokia, Sony and the MPEG-LA to enforce their collective patents.
The firm sued Apple in 2010 claiming that it infringed 14 patents in total. Only 3 patents eventually went to court, and Apple was found to be infringing all three. Patents included the camera’s phone and "call handling and call rejection."
MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Larry Horn said after the decision: "We’re very pleased. We think it’s justified."
MobileMedia is managing 300 patents and currently has on-going cases against RIM (regarding 12 patents) and HTC (regarding 11 patents).
No settlement was announced yet, but the victory will likely result in license payments which will eventually percolate to the three respective companies.
Apple has already been forced to settle with Nokia regarding 3G patents in 2011, paying $608 million to Nokia and also on-going license fees.
Via Engadget.com
Microsoft Currently Investigating Internet Explorer Mouse Tracking Issue
According to a Microsoft Security researcher, a newly discovered vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer compromises the security of virtual keyboards and virtual keypads. This vulnerability will allow your browsing activity on IE…
Read more at Microsoft News
Nokia Photobeamer now available for WP 7.5
Photobeamer is a pretty cool technology, which debuted for Windows Phone 8 2 weeks ago.
The service is now available for Windows Phone 7.5, allowing Nokia user to beam photos wirelessly to a net-connected browser, no matter the screen size.
Photobeamer can be found in the windows phone store here.
Bing Desktop App v1.1 Now Available For Download With Many New Features
Microsoft Bing today announced the new v1.1 of Bing Desktop app. This new app brings support for Windows 8 devices and support for 4 additional languages such as French, German, Chinese and Japanese…
Read more at Microsoft News
Microsoft Working On Google Ingress Like Mobile Game To Improve Mapping?
Microsoft just like other mapping companies like Nokia, Google, etc, is looking to improve their mapping system with crowd sourced data. The system describes a AR game where users will have missions to take photos and post information of a place thereby improving the location information. Read the abstract below for a brief description of Microsoft’s plan,
Architecture that motivates and utilizes users as the means for capturing geographical data of a desired location. The architecture incentivizes users (e.g., large numbers of mobile-phone and mobile-computer users) to provide the data in the form of geolocation information trails and images captured by user devices. Thus, users take multiple pictures, for example, and can validate existing coverage of specific points of interest based on variable needs of the requestor. One motivational technique is by using augmented reality (AR) games, which include shooting targets associated with the point of interest (e.g., a street). Thus, the game can be designed for the data accumulation, which includes visual data. Additionally, the architecture can determine the areas or points of interest for validation and/or additional coverage by comparing live video data to an image database to decide of the need for update.
Google recently launched an AR game called Ingress for Android users, I’m not sure whether Google has same plans as Microsoft.
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