Overall, 16% of smartphone users in US say they’ve made a purchase as the result of a marketing message they received on their smartphone. Android users are the most likely to report making a purchase after receiving a message on their smartphones (21%), followed by Windows Phone owners (19%), iPhone owners (17%), and Blackberry users [...]

When you submit your application for certification for Windows Phone Marketplace, you need to provide screenshots of your application. Customers see the screenshot of your application in the details page of the Windows Phone Marketplace catalog on the phone and in Zune software when they make a purchase.

App Look is nifty utility to reverse lookup a Windows Phone application from a known GUID or the actual application URI.

The developer contests don’t seem to end! Microsoft has now introduced a limited-time offer good only to U.S. residents, 18+, who are full-time or part-time students enrolled in a U.S. college or university at time of participation. All you have to do is build and publish Windows Phone 7 apps to win exciting prizes.

MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. This posts lists all the session on Windows Phone at the event..

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 team has partnered with AppMakr to help accelerate the number of Windows Phone 7 Apps in MarketPlace. AppMakr allows you to build apps quickly with no costs and with NO CODING required.

Yalla Apps enables developers from around the world to submit their application to the Windows Phone Marketplace and be part of a fast growing development community.

mtiks is a comprehensive analytics platform for Windows Phone 7 developers. They’ve released stats and usage trends in terms of devices and countries by app usage in the month of February 2011.

You are invited to the Windows Phone 7 Day in Gurgaon, India, the first one in a series of several more to come. If you are not in Delhi NCR, you can catch the entire event streaming live on the Web.

WP7 Marketplace Enabler is a nifty utility to allow you to access Windows Phone 7 Marketplace from anywhere in the world via the Zune software on your PC.