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We've heard a great deal of news about Windows Phone 7 at this year's Microsoft MIX conference but we have even more stuff to add for you.

Now it looks like Microsoft will let the Marketplace, the only place that will get you official Windows Phone 7 apps, to remotely revoke app licenses. That means that basically any app you purchase can be deleted if anything should occur to disturb the peace in the Windows Phone 7 universe.


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Google has decided we need a new app store version and it has launched one. The Apps Marketplace is the new name in town and it is supposed to be a cloud-computing based app store which will integrate all Google Apps and not only.

Right now there are 50 apps available in the Apps Marketplace and more will follow. Google will charge $100 to third-party developers before they can submit apps and once they pay the fee they'll be able to offer us all sorts of cloud-based apps.


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I didn't think there will come a day in which we will see Apple censor certain words from app descriptions but that day has arrived. Apple has decided not to allow the word "Android" in any iTunes applications which is pretty strange. Will a word remind people of Google's mobile platform and convince them to immediately ditch their iPhones in favor of Android handsets?

Flash of Genius is an app developers that says it has received an email from Cupertino warning him to remove any mention of Android. Here's the email in question:


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Just a couple of days ago we were telling you how Google doesn't want to launch any Android smartphones in China anymore as a direct result of the cyber-attacks allegedly directed to the company by China. Well it looks like Android handsets will go to China after all and that will happen with or without Google's support.

Motorola, the newest player in the Android business also happens to be one of the best Android smartphones manufacturers so far. And Moto can't afford not to cash in on the Chinese market.


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This isn't the first time we tell you about Mozilla Firefox Mobile, also known as Fennec but we now have more information about the brand new mobile browser.

It looks like Mozilla wants to transform its mobile browser into a platform that could support future web apps. That way developers shouldn't develop multiple versions of the same app meant to run on different mobile platform and they could focus on a single app that could be run inside the browser.


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Guess who is interested in mobile content? Does Associated Press sound plausible to you? Well the news agency is apparently going to work together with Verve Wireless in order to offer support to any mobile app developer out there.


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Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group just announced a new mobile software application for feature phones called OneApp. OneApp will make it possible for feature phone users around the world (and especially in emerging markets) to access mobile apps like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger and others. OneApp was designed to make is easy for feature phones with limited memory and processor to have access to the most popular web services and applications.


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AT&T has announced that TuneWiki, a social media player app, won the top prize in the company's Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards contest, while Boopsie, a mobile search app, won the grand prize in the enterprise app development contest.

AT&T said it is the first major telco to have a developer relations program and now has more than 20,000 developers registered in its program which encourages them to make apps for handsets running on various platforms such as BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Java, Palm OS and Symbian.

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Here is a nice little application for Windows Mobile handsets and devices. From my short testing it works but tends to crash the whole phone now and again, damn.
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BlackBerry fans rejoice, Symbian fanatics, you all just need to keep the faith until the big G is ready to get it on your OS of choice.
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