According to a tweet image by Justin Angel who is  former Microsoft program manager with access to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, Microsoft has already started to populated the yet unreleased Windows Phone 7 Marketplace with a couple of third party applications along with in house apps.
The images reveals  that there are at least placeholders for a variety of games …

Windows Phone 7 debut is not formally announced but, the  news of its launch is now in open  thanks to Kevin Turner, COO of Microsoft who has let slip that Windows Phone 7 handsets are set to ship in U.K. and rest of  Europe this October.
Technology blog Engadget was the first to post a video about the comments made …

Microsoft’s good ole boy – Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, According to www.netmarketshare.com Internet Explorer has grown its usage share for the second month in a row. And once again, the fastest growing web browser overall is Internet Explorer 8. IE’s gains come, as before, at the expense of both Mozilla Firefox and Google …

Samsung was earlier confirmed as one of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch partner. Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 device news in now in open  thanks to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group which is a Bluetooth specifications group.
The handset named Cetus has a 4-inch OLED screen, 5MP camera, front facing camera, GPS, Bluetooth and all the other gubbins you have …

HTC is working on a version of their Sense UI for Windows Phone 7. Microsoft has taken steps to standardize the Windows Phone 7 user interface to the core level, they had earlier revealed that handset manufacturers couldn’t reskin Windows Phone 7 devices wholesale,it was  a bid to exert more control over the phones that use its upcoming …

Microsoft had in the past managed to rope in leading hardware and OEM manufacturers for its software , and continuing the tradition its lineup of manufacturers for the upcoming and promising Windows Phone 7 launch is very impressive.  After the regular rounds of rumors, Microsoft has confirmed that HTC, Dell, ASUS, LG, and Samsung  will be making Windows Phone …

Here we’re all big users of Google Mail, why? For all the same reasons you like to use it. About 6 months ago I stopped using a non web based email client and I haven’t looked back, well until I saw this video.

Somehow the new Outlook looks a little more functional and a little more social. I’m going to go …

Windows mobile developers have a reason to smile as  Microsoft  has released the developer tools that should enable content creators to write apps for Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform, Microsoft on its part is hard at work with Windows Phone 7, in preparation for the new platform’s launch that should take place towards the …

NTP Corporation has filed a lawsuit against six leading cell phone makers for infringing on its patents for delivering email to cell phones. The companies against whom cases were filed are Apple , Google , Microsoft , Motorola , HTC  and LG. NTP claims that the companies are infringing eight of NTP’s patents related to the delivery …

ComScore, which is an Internet marketing research company has released a report, which shows key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry from February to May 2010.  According to the report, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) with 22.4 percent of U.S. mobile …