Microsoft has rebranded its mobile app store, and at the same time announced the latest innovations in it: a heavily modified search engine, the addition of Top Free and Top Paid categories. 

Immediately sorry for the offtop, but due to the fact that now everyone is just talking about the iPhone 5 (what’s on Western news feeds, what’s on ours), I couldn’t get past this picture. She’s really into the subject:

As reported in the official blog of the company, since yesterday Microsoft has opened limited access to the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 Developer Program. So far, the operating system is available only to developers of the most popular applications.

Yesterday Apple not only showed the smartphone, but also boasted about the numbers. Unfortunately, against the background of bright pictures, not everyone paid attention to them.

I want to show you an interesting screenshot (open the image, otherwise it was cropped a little):

The “Farmer” company began publishing collectible card games, previously considered the territory of Japanese companies. 

Yesterday’s Apple presentation is the alarm bell that was talked about so much by those who were sure that the company would not last long without Steve Jobs. About this, as well as why the announcement of the iPhone 5 disappointed many, read below. 

According to The Verge, delays and bugs during testing of Windows Phone 8 pushed back the release date of the operating system. Microsoft employees are now working overtime.

The number of downloads of the New Star Soccer 5 game for iOS has exceeded the milestone of 1 million. This was told the other day by one of its creators, Simon Read, in an interview with the British resource Develop.

No miracle happened. Almost all the rumors about the new iPhone have come true. The photos that previously got into the Network turned out to be, as they say, real, as, indeed, numerous “leaks”.

The executive director of Tag Games, Paul Farley, in his article on Pocket Games, told what should be paid attention to by a young studio that decided to take up the development of games for mobile platforms. 

As we have already written, Mobilefest, a conference-festival for developers and publishers of mobile applications, will be held in St. Petersburg on September 24-25. Today there is new information about its participants. 

Samsung intends to ban sales of the iPhone 5 in connection with Apple’s infringement of patent rights to LTE technology, The Korea Times reports.

The Head Hunter company timed the publication of interesting statistical data concerning the prospects and attractiveness of the programmer’s profession in the modern labor market to coincide with the Programmer’s Day, which is celebrated every 256th day of the year (including today, September 12).

Today Apple will present the iPhone 5. The novelty is eagerly awaited in Russia, but our users will most likely have to postpone the purchase until December.

Good afternoon! Is anyone going to social rocks in Kiev? there is a good discount if you register with a group of 4 people or more. Maybe someone wants to cooperate?

A little news about Android after the previous one: as it became known today, the number of activated devices based on the OS created by Google has reached a significant mark of an embarrassing 500 million. 

In 2013, the 1 billion gadget on the Android platform will be shipped, according to the global information company IHS.

>EA Mobile became the first major mobile game publisher to support the Android-based PlayMG portable gaming device.