Mobile payment operator Satispay, who operates mainly in Italy and has a Windows Phone app, has a ounced a partnership with ICCREA Banca which will bring integration of the Ingenico POS payment system, the most common Point of Sale system deployed on 1.7 million installations. Satispay operates with...

Vivino Wine Sca er, described as the “Amazon for Wine” has reportedly abandoned its Windows phone app. Citing low store traction in the Windows store, they explain that the amount of downloads and hence revenue doesn’t justify the effort required to build a native app on the Windows platform, hence ...

Somewhat popular ru er, Subway Surfers, is pulling out of Windows Phone 8 and heading full steam ahead into Windows 10 Mobile according to a new report from On MSFT. The site recieved a statement from Kiloo, developers of the Subway Surfers series,which stated that the Windows Phone Subway Surfers a...

Education software Hapara which was previously only available on Google Apps is now available on the Microsoft Office 365 platform. It integrates with Office 365 and OneNote, allowing students and educators on the Microsoft platform to further improve student lea ing outcomes. The Hapara Teacher Das...

The WhatsApp beta has been updated to version 2.16.94 with a new image gallery. The image gallery is significantly faster and replaces the gallery last updated in Windows Phone 7. See a gif showing the changes from WindowsBlogItalia below: WhatsApp beta is a closed beta, but the improvements should ...

Facebook’s app for Windows 10 desktops and tablets has just received an update with a mild UI change, Keen-eyed users will note that the buttons for sharing photos, videos and live video have now been moved out of the monochrome status boxes and now have full colour icons above the status update box...

After a long period of stagnation, Microsoft is working on making its OS more effective at delivering news to consumers. In a new app update aimed at Windows Insiders, the MSN news app n The App ID is not recognized. :-( #wpappbox ow allows you to select certain sources which you can peruse in the n...

Instagram is adding a new feature to its apps: the ability to translate text within the app. The feature is currently rolling out, and it will allow users to translate posts, profile BIOs, and comments to their preferred language. The translation feature currently supports the following languages: A...

Audible today updated their official Windows app to v10.4.0.0. This update brings a new Clip feature which lets users create audio clips of your favourite passage from your audio book for later listening and sharing with friends. The clips essentially act as bookmarks and can be used in the same way...

Money transfer company Chillr have updated their Windows Phone app to v2.0 with many new changes including new home screen, payment timeline and more. Find the full change log below. Change log: – A brand new home screen that brings your most used features just one tap away. – Timeline: Payments go ...

Teen Games is back with a regularly scheduled summer blockbuster release to make your vacation days a bit less lazy an twice as enjoyable! What made Spiderman the superhero classic he is? Well, plenty of things, for sure — good storytelling, eye-catching costume, the whole concept of an teenage hero...

[embedded content] Microsoft today a ounced that they have won a Silver Lion at the Ca es Inte ational Festival of Creativity in the Cyber category for their #MakeWhatsNext campaign that celebrates and encourages girls and women to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). ...

Outreach, a sales tech startup, yesterday a ounced that it has closed $17.5 million in Series B funding with participation from Microsoft Ventures. Currently tens of thousands of sales professionals from companies like Adobe, CenturyLink, Adroll, AppDynamics, and Zillow are using Outreach to improve...

A demo for the upcoming Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been released on the Xbox One for gamers to try. The game was a ounced at E3 for PC, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Check out the game description and trailer below. Be the firs...

Square Enix and Milestone have officially released the motorsports game MXGP2, in North America for Xbox One and PS4. The game features customizable bikes, avatars, along with different tracks from around the world. “Featuring licensed motorcycles, real riders and tracks, MXGP2 delivers the true mot...

The new UWP app “Good Accounts, Good Friends” is no available in the Windows Store. With Good Accounts, Good Friends, make your accounts between friends without the fuss! Whether on a trip abroad, a party, or any other event with friends, the application is responsible for ensuring that everyone pay...

Some weeks ago Microsoft added support for the Lumia Icon to the Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview program. At the time it was not clear if this will ever result in an official release of the OS update for the handset, but it seems all the waiting has not been in vain. On Verizon’s support site ther...

Microsoft today released minor updates for MSN News, Money, Sports and Weather apps in Windows Store. These updates, which come without change logs, must include some bug fixes and small improvements that improves the overall performance of the app. The updated version number is 4.11.155.0. You can ...

6tag has just picked up a small update for Windows phone devices. Rudy Huyn’s 6tag app was one of the first Instagram clients for Windows Phone in its early days and still remains one of the best Instagram client apps on multiple platforms. Despite Windows Phone having not one but two first party In...

Text analytics involves natural language processing to extract meaningful structured data from text, and often includes areas such as sentiment analysis, entity recognition and linking, and text clustering. Microsoft Text Analytics API which comes as part of the Cortana Intelligence Suite allows cus...