Some of you may have noticed an Xbox LIVE outage, causing your Xbox LIVE Friends lists to disappear. The Xbox LIVE outage also causes Leaderboards and Statistics to fail when high scores are updated or leaderboards are attempted to be loaded. Microsoft are working hard to fix the outage, but have not specified any timescale on a fix or the exact cause of the fault, but knowing Microsoft there probably won’t be an explaination, It will just be swept under the rug
Jaxbot from Windows Phone Hacker has released another homebrew app, This app differs from accelerometer disabler as there is an off/on function instead of rebooting, the accelerometer function is unaffected. Jaxbot has this to say about his app;
Jaxbot from Windows Phone Hacker has released a new homebrew application that disables the accelerometer which will prevent your device from automatically changing between portrait and landscape by disabling the accelerometer inputs until the device is rebooted.
Nokia have left hints on its facebook page about the Lumia 800 is coming in white. No release date has been made available as yet, but early indications are its coming in the next few weeks. Slashgear have had a ‘hands on’ with the handset, It’s specs are identical to the other Nokia Lumia 800 phones, except for a white polycarbonate outer shell.
Marketplace Expansion (Image courtesy of WPCentral)
Microsoft have expanded their MarketPlace to an extra 5 countries; The new territories are Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines, which makes 41 countries so far with the official Marketplace, which developers in those regions can now submit apps and games.
I would like to wish a fond farewell to @BrandonWatson, the Director of developer experience at Microsoft, known to many developers during their plight of getting their apps certified. Brandon is headed to Amazon to head up the Kindle cross net platform team. Brandon’s position at Microsoft was never a permanent position but his departure will leave a big hole with big shoes to fill.
Two new games have just had their achievements added to Xbox Live, The two games are both ports of already established games and I expect them to be available sometime in March as we have already seen the release schedule for February.
Yesterday I told you about WP Bench being spoofed, Today I received a responce to my ‘Red Alert’ and the developer Robert Varga had this to say about the issue I raised…
I’ve contacted Microsoft if there’s any possibility to check whether device is locked or not (that’s the only info I could use for “trust/or not” decision during writing the data to database).
But, you know, Tango is coming and it could again bring some more security
We’ll see! :-)
Thank you very much for red alert, I’ve deleted the junk. Hopefuly Microsoft will provide me some idea about my question I’ve mentioned on top.
(edited to remove comments that may identify the vulnerbility)
Ryan: Its a good concept if this application covers every big city in the world. But for individual cities this concept has already been done. Check out Toronto Transit application by rybo mucking...
Sweet: I already have the beta of this app . METROFIED [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
AppTastic: Yanko – thanks for the concept! We’re looking forward to getting a lot more feedback from the users here. We’re committed to making AppTastic the best marketplace...
Tony: Looks so good. Please make a paid app – no ads.
Twimagic: http://www.Ringer.org is the best ringtone maker I’ve ever seen! Completely free, online, no registration!
Andrew Chobaniuk: Thanks for the heads up! [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Emiel Zuurbier: I would like to see the posibility of making a trip that uses different kinds of transportation as from train to bus, bus to subway, subway to train. With a map and directions,...
MrVamosMuchachos: Nice idea. You could take some ideas from the application “SBB”. It is the public transport app from switzerland. [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
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Sweet
AppTastic
Tony
Twimagic
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Emiel Zuurbier
MrVamosMuchachos
Skypirate
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