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Windows Phone App Flow: The State of the Marketplace

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Rich’s Note: Travis brings up some points here that have impacted every app store out there and continues to do so.  With the sheer number of apps being submitted the quality control in the approval process has to be working well across the board.  Things will still slip through as we have . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 39

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Welcome to Episode 39 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. In this show we talk about a million comments on Facebook; over a million Nokia Windows Phone sales; Bill Gates last visit with Steve Jobs; encrypted hard drives and the law; Hotmail on a lot of mobile devices; move from Gmail to Hotmail in three easy steps; Google and its new privacy policies; Facebook Timeline is here ready or not and sensors and mobile networks in Windows 8. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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Day 44: Life From A Touch Perspective With Windows 8

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In my last post at the end of December I was two weeks into my touch experience on Windows 8 with my Acer Iconia Tab W500 and that post focused on issues with web based interfaces that depend on mouse hover to bring up menu’s and other interactive items on the page.

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@WinObs Tweeted Links for 26 January 2012

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Penclic: It’s Time For A New Mouse Cable Networks Embrace Social TV, Creating New Social Apps 5 Reasons to use Azure when designing your Windows Phone Game Flickr tries to stay relevant, introducing new pricing options for Pro subscriptions Powertoys from the test team for 2011 Rumored prices for HTC Titan II, . . .

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Bing Desktop and Bing Europe Aerial Dynamic Themes Updates for 26 January 2012

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With all the new dynamic themes available from Microsoft now it looks like we will get updates on different days.  Here are the latest updates for two of them.

The older Bing Dynamic Desktop theme is compiled of photos that appear on the Bing.com homepage and the new Bing Aerial Images (Europe) . . .

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