If all this talk of new and improved operating systems for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iOS is making your head spin and your stomach growl, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are organizations full of people like us whose job it is to stay on top of these things. Mango is Microsoft’s updated operating system for its line of Windows Phone 7 devices. As Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone Corporate VP, discusses in the video below,… Read more »

Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft and RIM will be partnering to integrate Bing’s Search and map applications into RIM devices. At the Blackberry World Expo, Ballmer said, “We’re going to invest uniquely into the BlackBerry platform.” As a Blackberry fan, I’m wondering if this will help save my beloved devices. Once king of the smartphone market, will this partnership help regain or boost their marketshare? Nielsen’s latest survey (Jan 2011-March 2011) on… Read more »

We have a team full of winners here at PointAbout, but it’s not every day that one of us is publicly recognized as such by a company like Microsoft. So today is an even more special day than usual for Colin Hart, who was one of ten winners nationwide in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Government Apps Contest. You can find the announcement and the complete list of winning apps here. Colin created the app using… Read more »

PointAbout’s Kevin Lenane and Derek Tiffany sat with Zhiming Xue (“Z”) of Channel 9 to discuss the app configuration tool PointAbout is developing for the Windows Phone 7 platform. The tool is based on AppMakr, a free, web-based DIY app builder that is currently only available for the iPhone platform. Non-developers will essentially have the ability to generate and deploy (via Microsoft Marketplace) Windows Phone 7 applications with ease, using images, RSS feeds, and other… Read more »