Eric Ligman, Director of Partner Experience at Microsoft has released a Microsoft Partner Information app designed to help bring together many of the great sources of Microsoft partner information pulling them into a single visual interface for easy consumption and increased awareness.

Really? Paramount Digital Entertainment is distributing 10 of its films in the form of Windows Phone 7 apps. In addition to a full film, Paramount’s movie apps will include bonus features, trivia games and the ability to create custom clips.

And here we are with the results of the first giveaway we ever hosted – For All Those Who Love Windows Phone. Much thanks to each of you for incredible participation and raising stakes of this site as a community of Windows Phone fans.

Once you’ve built a great Windows Phone 7 app or game, AdDuplex is a brilliant way to promote the app and monetize it. You can promote your app for free by helping fellow developers promote theirs and when your app gains enough exposure, you can monetize it to make some extra bucks or reach your [...]

Microsoft Advertising SDK allows you to monetize your Windows Phone 7 applications and games by including ads from Microsoft Advertising. The ads shown in Windows Phone 7 applications and games are integrated with Microsoft pubCenter for real-time monitoring of how your ads are performing.

Mango, codename for the next version of Windows Phone shipping later this year, offers a lot of new capabilities for developers to create even better, more immersive user experiences on Windows Phone. This training course by Microsoft will give you hands-on experience with important developer features in Mango.

Speech recognition is one of the hidden gems on Windows Phone. Many of the things you do day-to-day on your phone can be accomplished using only your voice, saving you a lot of clicks and typing. Using your voice to make a phone call also works through a Bluetooth headset.

Starter Kits are fully-functional applications designed to be installed and used by actual Windows Phone users. Each starter kit contains the full source code along with documentation to provide you with a complete solution to get you started quickly.

Greg R Jacobs, the owner of Binary Wasteland, has authored a complete series on Windows Phone 7 development. The series ramps up a developer new to Windows Phone 7 development to developing a complete application, and publish it to the Marketplace.

RunKeeper is a mobile fitness platform for runners and other other fitness enthusiasts, and has a great Windows Phone 7 app. In this interview, Jason Jacobs, CEO of RunKeeper shares his experiences with developing on the Windows Phone 7 platform with Brian Gorbett, Senior Architect Evangelist at Microsoft.