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Every leading mobile platform has its own cloud solution. iOS has iCloud, Android has Google’s range of services, and Windows Phone has Microsoft’s SkyDrive. Unlike its competitors, Microsoft is reaching out to other platforms and releasing a SkyDrive app for iOS as well as Windows Phone. SkyDrive is the company’s cloud computing solution that lets…
Ben Rudolph of Microsoft launched an interesting campaign last night on Twitter and he is giving away five Windows Phone smartphones to five Android users with the most misfortune using Google’s mobile operating system. Users need to tweet him their ultimate story of #droidrage, a hashtag that has now gone viral. The main reason for…
Back in October we reported that Nokia was going to focus a large chunk of their marketing efforts on young people. At the time we laid the snark down pretty thick and said that of course they’re going to try and seduce young people, it’s because everyone in their late 20s to early 30s has…
Will Coleman, Developer Evangelist and Product Manager at Microsoft UK, started a whole bunch of unnecessary hubub late last week when he told TechRadar that Windows Phone 7.5 Mango has NFC support, but OEMs had decided for some strage reason to forgo building smartphones that have NFC chips inside. Microsoft issued a response yesterday to…
Khaled Salameh and the folks who run WinRumors have discovered a nasty Windows Phone bug whereby a simple text message can force a device to reboot and then make the messaging application unusable. We don’t know how to replicate this bug, and that’s a good thing, because WinRumors said that they merely want to let…
It’s all well and good that Nokia is trying to resurrect their glory days by partnering with Microsoft and releasing Windows Phones, but until they step foot in America then nothing they do matters. That’s the sad truth of the situation. We already know that T-Mobile is going to make an announcement tomorrow saying that…
There are no doubts that T-Mobile IS getting the Nokia Lumia 710. Such a device has already cleared the FCC and now we have the first press image to show you. Sure you can tell everyone could add T-Mobile’s logo there, but something tells me this is the real deal which will most likely be…
It’s been quite a year for Microsoft and Windows Phone. The mobile OS started off strong, but soon hit some bumps. Microsoft worked hard to put those mistakes behind them and is ending the year on a positive note. Read on for my overview of Windows Phones in its first full year of existence. Started…
Once again the iPad validates itself as the number one desired tablet in a new survey by Maritz Research. In addition to the iPad being the most popular brand among businesses, people that own Android, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows mobile phones show a preference for iPads over any other tablet else. This is interesting because you would think…
Nokia announced two Windows Phones at their annual Nokia World event this past October, the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800. The latter has been getting all the attention, partly because it was the first to ship, but also because of the controversy surrounding the Nokia N9. The N9 and Lumia 800 represent an inflection…