Inside the recent announcement for the Lumia 928 is a new piece of information: there are now 145,000 apps in the Windows Phone store, up from 120,000 apps in October 2012, but growth has slowed. More...

Make Windows better. The Pokki Menu makes accessing and organizing your favorite apps, websites, files and folders more simple and convenient. More...

The Movie Moments app in Windows 8.1 build 9385 has been found to silently update after using Windows Update, meaning automatic installation of Windows Store apps could feature in the update More...

Microsoft's "Switch to Windows Phone" Android app has been released through the Google Play Store, allowing Android users to find Windows Phone versions of their installed apps. More...

Microsoft has announced an open beta program for the Facebook app for Windows Phone, giving users the chance to preview its major redesign and a range of new features before the app's release. More...

Microsoft updated its Weather app to include a dynamically updated and interactive weather map that features several viewing options, such as satellite, temperature, precipitation and more. More...

The head of Microsoft's Windows Phone team, Joe Belfiore, has tweeted a rather intriguing teaser, hinting at "something nice" on the way in the next few days. But what could it be? More...

Michael Cherry, and analyst for Directions on Microsoft, has slammed Microsoft's strategy for Windows 8.1, saying that new (or returning) features are irrelevant when the apps "suck." More...

Microsoft plans on continuing its campaign against Google by releasing a "Switch to Windows Phone" app for its competitor's Android smartphone operating system. More...

BlueStacks App Player is a free application that allows users to quickly run their favorite Android apps on any Windows PC. The apps can be run full screen providing a unique and new experience. More...

Facebook's new 'Home' Android skin has today surpassed 500,000 downloads on the Google Play store. However, with mixed reviews and an intrusive design, will the interface see a decline in users? More...

Google's terms of service reveal you won't be able to sell or lend your precious early specs once they arrive or the company will deactivate them. At $1,500, is it just too much to ask? More...

Imagine for a minute that you could take all of your Windows Phone devices and play a song out of all of them, at the same time, in perfect harmony. That's what SoundSynk does and it's coming soon. More...

Microsoft will be releasing updates for its Bing apps on Windows 8 and RT. These updates bring new features and bug fixes to the Bing News, Travel, Sports, Finance and Maps applications. More...

Microsoft's newly launched Windows Store often gets bashed for its lack of apps and shortage of killer apps. While the critics may be screaming, one developer is laughing all the way to the bank. More...

Rudy Huyn has updated his third-party Wikipedia app, which is now at version 2.0, to Windows Phone 8. The update includes 720p support and now features live tiles and voice recognition. More...

A new survey shows that a large amount of companies are planning to deploy applications for Microsoft platforms (including Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone) over the next year. More...

Make Windows better. The Pokki Menu makes accessing and organizing your favorite apps, websites, files and folders more simple and convenient. More...

Microsoft's update to its Xbox Video app for Windows 8 and Windows RT has allowed users to restore movies they previously purchased through the Xbox 360's Xbox Video app. More...

BlackBerry's Vice President has confirmed that a fifth of all currently-available apps for BB10 are Android ports. With the platform receiving mixed reviews, will major developers be attracted? More...

The manager of Microsoft's Windows Phone team has hinted that a major app will be released for the platform on Monday, March 25, although no indication was given for what app will be released. More...

New information found in the Event Viewer is pointing to Microsoft updating all of the core Windows 8 apps in the very near future and could arrive this month. More...

Executives from Evernote and Box recently spoke at a mobile development conference and warned the event's attendees to not dismiss Microsoft's mobile Windows platforms. More...

Google may be spring cleaning at the moment, but it looks like a previously retired service might be getting a new lease of life in the form of note taking app Google Keep. More...

In the latest example of kids spending enormous sums on in-app purchases, an eight-year-old boy from the UK spent £980 ($1460) on buying virtual doughnuts in an iPad game based on The Simpsons. More...

Make Windows better. The Pokki Menu makes accessing and organizing your favorite apps, websites, files and folders more simple and convenient. More...

The first apps in development for Google's upcoming 'Glass' device have been unveiled at South by Southwest in Texas, shown off in a demo by Glass developer Timothy Jordan, but who will buy it? More...

Trend Micro has released a report that states 69,000 out of 700,000 apps on the Google Play Store are in some way malicious, while an even larger total of the generally available apps are dodgy More...

If you use Windows 8's core applications and have been lusting for an update to polish the apps, you may not have to wait much longer as an update is on the horizon according to new information. More...

Adobe has released a smartphone and tablet version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Touch, for Android and iOS devices. Users can modify images with many of Photoshop's more popular features. More...

The latest Canary build of Google Chrome has a feature that allows you to see which tab is playing audio to exclude tabs that Chrome discards when memory runs out. More...

Make Windows better. The Pokki Menu makes accessing and organizing your favorite apps, websites, files and folders more simple and convenient. More...

The Computer History Museum has gained permission from Adobe Systems to release the source code of version 1.0.1 of Photoshop from 1990 for non-commercial use. More...

Google has made a bit of a boob(le) and the sent personal information of users who purchased an app to the developer of that app; and it's enough for the dev to contact the users directly. More...

Google's search app for Android has been updated to include a Google Now widget for your home screen and lock screen, improved movie cards and real estate listings. More...

Developers received a handout of $8 billion, up from $6.5 billion three months ago which netted Apple around $3.5 billion in revenue and continues to show that iOS is a profitable platform for devs. More...

BlackBerry has teamed up with Trend Micro to rid the BlackBerry World of any malware, with the company using its special cloud-based technology to scan all BB10 apps for malicious code More...

Blackberry 10 has just launched with 70.000 apps available in the Blackberry World store, including some big names such as Angry Birds, Whatsapp and Skype. However quantity does not ensure quality. More...

Microsoft has begun providing Windows 8 app developers with crash reports in addition to certification reports in the event an app fails to be approved for the Windows Store. More...

The company behind Parallels - which, among other things, allows Mac and iOS users to run Windows applications - is planning to bring its popular software to Windows Phones, tablets and PCs. More...

Make Windows better. The Pokki Menu makes accessing and organizing your favorite apps, websites, files and folders more simple and convenient. More...

The Royal Bank of Scotland has just confirmed on Twitter that they are in the process of developing a Windows Phone app for their customers. RBS are just the latest bank to jump on the WP ecosystem. More...

RIM is hard at work trying to make sure they have a strong launch for their Blackberry 10 OS at the end of this month. Now they have extended incentives for developers porting apps to their ecosystem. More...

Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 haven't yet got all the apps that rival platforms enjoy - but which apps would you most like to see on Microsoft-powered devices? Join in the discussion and let us know. More...

Microsoft has announced today that 60 million licenses of Windows 8 have been sold to date and that there have been 100 million downloads from the Windows Store. Make the jump to learn more More...

The BBC has released another app for iOS, with an Android version in development. But are apps on the way too for Windows Phone, Windows 8 and BlackBerry 10? The BBC tells Neowin what's happening. More...

A new report from Flurry claims that between December 25th to 31st, 1.76 billion Android and iOS apps were downloaded worldwide, a new record that was previously set for Christmas week 2011. More...

Microsoft has posted some interesting and positive statistics regarding the Windows Phone Store in 2012. According to them there's never been a better time for developers to jump onboard. More...

VLC is a fantastic video player for the Windows and OS X platforms. To help expand their reach, the team behind the product is trying to crowd source the funding to developer a Modern app for Win 8. More...