So you've got a Windows Phone 7 phone, and now you need to fill it with lovely Windows Phone 7 apps. But with over 45,000 apps available for the Microsoft platform what are the best ones to get and are there any that take advantage of the Metro interface. 

We've...

Several things have become synonymous with smartphones: weather and stocks. With stock markets looking so depressing, perhaps your best use of time is sitting and watching the weather around the world. 

You probably already have the provision...

Flickr, the image hosting site with more than 50 million users, has finally come to the Android party - with its first official app hitting the Android Market.

As well as all the usual stuff you'd expect from a Flickr app, like photo browsing...

How's this for a mind blowing fact to start your Tuesday? Facebook hosts approximately 4 per cent of all the photographs ever taken.

That's 140 billion snaps, with 70 billion of those just from 2011, out of the estimated total of 3.5 trillion...

Geofence. That’s the new buzzword you’ll have to remember, especially if you are a flickr user looking to control who sees your images online. 

The idea behind Geofencing is that it allows you to create a virtual barrier around...

The Metropolitan Police has turned to social media site Flickr in its quest to bring to justice those individuals involved in the riots and looting that have taken place across London.

In a Flickr set labelled "London Disorder" the Met has...

Have you got a brilliant picture from the Royal Wedding? Perhaps you managed to zoom in to William's bald spot (well, it's more than a spot - let's be honest)? Or maybe you've got a picture of the mayor copping a feel of the village WI leader at your...

Whether you're a patriotic royalist, a strict republican or utterly indifferent, there's no denying that the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is a significant historical event - not to mention a great opportunity for capturing...

Flickr has announced that it is coming, via an app, for Windows Phone 7 and released this video showing it in action.

The app lets you browse your Flickr streams in "stunning high-resolution display", offers "rich navigational features" and...

If you've read any of our previous Flipboard coverage here on Pocket-lint, then you'll know that we're big fans of the iPad app.

But, if we're honest it was seriously lacking one thing - an RSS feed feature - that really would result in the...

Google account holders can now log into image hosting site Flickr using their Google username and passwords, as a result of the OpenID initiative.

Flickr, as you may be aware, is owned by Google's rival Yahoo - so you may be questioning Yahoo's...

Google TV promises to revolutionise our televisions and bring the web into the living room, but what exactly is it, and what will it bring.

On the eve of the Logitech and Sony launch events in the US, Google has finally laid down some of the...

Facebook has announced a major overhaul of its photo features, including the ability to upload high-resolution images.

Previously the social networking giant limited you to pictures with a maximum edge of 720-pixels, but this is being boosted...

Facebook might be the king of the pile when it comes to total photo uploads (estimates are around 25 - 30 billion), but Flickr has, according to official numbers, just passed the 5 billion photo mark.

Although Flickr has lost out...

Windows Phone 7 isn't out yet, however that doesn't mean developers can't start getting to work on the apps that will populate the Windows Phone 7 App store from day 1.

Here we showcase what we think are the best Windows Phone 7 apps we've...