Apple pioneered the first-party mobile app store as we know it in July, 2008. Since then, the Apple App Store has played an increasingly important role in the success of the iOS ecosystem and continues to boast the largest app population (over 350,000) of any app store out there. But, according to market research outfit Distimo, its leading rival, the Android Market, is catching up with the App Store at such a fast rate that the former could become the most populous app store within the next five months.
In our opinions, the Windows Phone 7 platform is under appreciated for games, apps, media and more. We're going to rectify this grave injustice one app at a time through our new WinPhone App of the Week column.
This week's app is Virtual Remote's Media Control. This $2.99 app is perfect for HTPC owners because it allows you to control and operate Windows Media Center, iTunes, Windows Media Player, and VLC via your WiFi network.
Microsoft’s controversial decision to ban certain types of open source software had the company defending itself last week from both from the blogging community, and embarrassingly enough, their own internal legal department who was forced to admit they would have to 
