• Doug Boling blogs about WP7 multitasking
• Get behind the scenes on Windows Phone 7 emulator- Direct from the product team!
• Some details on Windows Mobile 6.5.3 – From Microsoft, no less.
• U.S. mobile operator grading/ranking for Q1 2010- Interesting results in this analysis from Strategy Analytics (/via BGR)
• Mobile In The Hand 4.2 released- Performance enhancements and wider device compatibility mark this release.

• Office Mobile 2010 free for Windows Mobile 6.5- Go get it 6.5 owners!
• SAP buys Sybase for US $5.8B- Wow!
• Om has an initial  analysis on the SAP/Sybase deal
• Run the Windows Phone 7 emulator standalone- Great for testing many things
• No Skype for Windows Phone 7- Not surprising given the native code restriction for ISVs
• Android 2.2 is 450% faster?- jkOnTheRun sums up some data from AndroidPolice. 

200… woohoo!

• Apple calls BS on NPD data- Says no way that Android outsold iPhone.
• Bing for Windows Phones updated- Now with turn-by-turn navigation.  Awesome! (Although, sadly, VZW customers are left out..I presume that was not at Microsoft’s discretion)
• VZW + Google == tablet?- So it seems.
• FCC seeks comment on regs for MOs notifying customers of billing thresholds- I hope this goes through.

• Android devices now outselling iPhones in the U.S. ?- So it would seem as 28% > 21%.
• Mobile broadband traffic – be careful about language- We are cautioned, appropriately so, by Dean Bubley in this excellent post.
• Clearwire on the WiMAX bus until at least 2012 – ..and then it might jump to LTE.
• The Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit has been updated- Now with an excellent Push Notification lab and other updates to match the latest tool updates.
• ErikEJ posts a collection of links to replication and sync tips & tricks- Required reading if you’re using Sync Services or Merge Replication

• Windows Phone 7 training kit refresh- The WP team has the skinny on the updates to this great resource.
• Sprint is getting serious about the prepaid mobile market
• KIN availability and pricing- From the Windows Phone blog

• What is project Meno?- Something new to pique our interest from Microsoft
• Windows Phone 7 based upon a hybrid Win CE build?- All I can say is that when I query it programmatically, it gives up 7.x as the OS version
• Amit Chopra blogs about uninstall issues with the MIX CTP Drop- Wish I had this before went on an uninstall adventure last week.
• Install SQL Server Compact using the MultiCAB pattern

• Push Notifications for Tiles with Windows Phone 7- A post from Ingo Rammer
• Windows Phone 7 Microsoft Tag Demo
• Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones- Direct from the Windows Phone team
• Channel 9 lab: XNA Games on WP7- A nice walkthrough lab from the fine folks at Channel 9

• Dean Bubley talks about the part of RIM’s strategy most folks overlook- fwiw, my wife loves BBM, too.
• Apple enters the mobile search rodeo with the acquisition of Siri
• How to enumerate files on a Windows CE-based device from the desktop- Christian Helle gives the details on this oft-asked RAPI functionality.
• Abhinaba enlightens us about the shared heap in .NET CF 3.7- This is a nice change from CF 3.5.
• João posts about the HTC G sensor- Also note his new blog URL.

Today Microsoft updated several of the components in the toolchain for Windows Phone 7 development for both Visual Studio and Expression Blend:

Microsoft Expression Blend Software Development Kit (SDK) Preview for Windows Phone

Microsoft Expression Blend Add-In Preview for Windows Phone

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP April Refresh – now supports VS 2010 RTM!

Charlie Kindel has a detail blog post about the refresh bits here 

A reminder that if you have a previous version of the Blend SDK Preview for Windows Phone, Blend Add-In Preview for Windows Phone and Window Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh, you must uninstall them prior to installing the new versions.

And no one saw that coming from HP…

• HP buys Palm for $1.2B- wow!
• Michael Mace shares some thoughts on HP/Palm
• OpenNETCF migrates their Windows Mobile 6 Mobile Ink library to CodePlex – More on library usage here
• ARM-based chips in servers