Microsoft has taken its popular Smoked by Windows Phone contest to its stores, offering a Hunger Games Special Edition laptop to those who manage to win, and the opportunity to swap out your existing smartphone for a Windows Phone for those who lose.

Contradicting — and likely correcting — a statement previously made by the company’s Chief Marketing Officer, Rovio’s CEO confirmed that Angry Birds Space is coming to Windows Phone after all.

Nokia appears to have struck a deal with AT&T, in which the Lumia 900 will be a ‘Company Use’ phone, available to front-selling employees free of charge.

Does Tango restrict developer capability so apps can target lower-end (256MB) devices? Per Justin Angel, Principal Engr at Nokia, not really.

The Windows Phone Marketplace now hosts more than 70,000 apps, up from 60,000 apps in January.

The HTC Triumph, codenamed in English as the HTC Eternity, has finally hit store shelves in China as the first Windows Phone in the region.

According to a study conducted by Kantar Worldpanel, 2.5% of UK buyers purchased a Nokia Windows Phone, while 2.4% purchased a Symbian device.

Microsoft has appointed marketing veteran Thom Gruhler as the corporate vice president of Windows Phone Marketing.

Microsoft is hosting a special event on March 21st to celebrate the launch of Tango — and the Windows Phone platform as a whole — in China.

Nokia are hosting a special Lumia event on March 28th in China, where they are slated to announce the devices they will have to offer in the region.

A new rumor has surfaced claiming that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be available for online purchase on the 8th, and will hit AT&T store shelves on the 9th.

Windows Phone 8 is likely to come to current and first generation Windows Phone devices.

Nokia has announced that its annual Nokia World 2012 conference will be taking place in Helsinki, Finland, during September 25-26.

LiveSide stumbled upon stealthy-updated Microsoft documentation that revealed some of the limitations lower-end Windows Phone devices will experience with Tango.

Due to the lack of Verizon LTE support, it would appear that the carrier scrapped plans to offer a Nokia Windows Phone — called the ‘Om’ — which would have hit the shelves sometime in January or February.