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If you’re a fan of the Last.fm app, you’re going to have to start coughing up about $3 a month if you want to listen to tunes on your iPhone, Android or iPad. The Internet radio service will be turning to a subscriber-only model for its mobile apps. “On the Last.fm website an ad-supported, free-to-listeners…
Oh hey, look, Microsoft has decided to include copy and paste in the latest update to Windows Phone 7 developer tools. It’s nice that the software maker took cues from Apple before launching its brand-spankin’ new platform, but why it didn’t include copy and paste from the beginning is beyond me. And yet here it…
Things haven’t been looking up for Nokia the past few months, and so rumors of an alliance with Google for Android or Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 have been cropping up everywhere. The latter really took off when Nokia picked up ex-Microsoft exec Stephen Elop as its new CEO. We’ve given plenty of takes on…
Microsoft has just released some details about the upcoming software update and it’s not very surprising, but it’s packed full of features that users should appreciated. As expected, the Windows Phone 7 update will include copy and paste, which will put it on part with competing platforms. The company said: Using copy and paste is…
According to Long Zheng of istartedsomething, Microsoft has fixed a Windows Phone billing issue affecting residents of Australia and other regional markets. The billing glitch would levy an additional International transaction fee that would raise the price of applications and games bought by customers in regions outside the U.S. The cause of this error was…
Electronic Arts had a good quarter and the results showed that the game maker continues to gain traction in the mobile world as it is the top publisher (in Western markets) for the Apple App Store and the Windows Phone 7 Windows Marketplace for mobile. It’s tough to really pinpoint what this means in monetary…
Microsoft identified the third-party behind its phantom data leak as Yahoo Mail. Last week, the Redmond company blamed a third-party application for a glitch that was causing Windows Phones owners to consume much more data than expected. Customers, especially those on AT&T which has a 2 GB cap on its data plan, were complaining of exorbitant…
Market research company NPD Group released its Q4 2010 analysis of the U.S. smartphone market and the results are poor for Windows Phone 7. According to the NPD Group, Windows Mobile outsold Windows phone 7 in the final quarter of 2010 nearly two to one, with Windows Mobile grabbing a 4% market share and Windows…
We all know that the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 update should be coming soon and now we have a rumored landing date: February 7. Of course, this date for the Windows Phone 7 update is just a rumor swirling around the Internet and it’s attributed to unnamed sources, so we have to take that for…
A recent study by ChangeWave examined trends in mobile operating system preferences, and showed that 5% of respondents would prefer to buy a Windows Phone, versus 4% who wanted a BlackBerry. Of course, the difference between the two is negligible when the iPhone OS and Android took up 36% and 35% respectively, but it does…