As the official release date of new Windows Phone market approaches, more and more developers are showing interest in WP7 app development. Sigurd, a geek has released an app that allows you to view Channel9 right on the Windows Phone 7 device.

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Microsoft will be spending somewhere between 400 million to 1 billion dollars at the launch of Windows Phone 7 launch. Microsoft will be releasing the final version of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools on September 16 this year that will allow the developers to recompile their apps before the relaunch of the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Microsoft is investing a lot to lure the developers to make exiting apps for Windows Phone to make them understand the platform.

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Folks at Microsoft have finalized what categories of apps will be offered at the Windows Phone MarketPlace. There will be 41 categories and sub-categories in total. The developer will be asked to choose from one of the categories.

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Someone at xda-devs has unveiled a really slick, yet simple stock quote app that features HTC Sense-like interface. The app fetches its data from the Yahoo Finances. But here is the best thing I love about this app – it is available free of cost. [link]

With MCC (Media Center Control) app, you will be able to control almost everything on the Windows Media Player (or Media Center) from your Windows Phone via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. The app comes with both English and German support

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