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Microsoft is hoping that some fat stacks of cheddar will help it catch up to the Apple App Store and Google Android Market, as it has been paying developers to create programs for its upcoming Windows Phone 7. It’s not giving them bags of cash per se, but a report by Business Week indicates Microsoft…
The Windows Mobile-powered HTC HD2 keeps getting hacked with Android. We’d previously seen HTC’s big-screened HD2 running Android 2.1 OS and Ubuntu, and now we’ve got some HTC Sense and Froyo lovin’ on the Windows Mobile device. It’s taken some time to get here with the HD2. Many people just entertained the thought of Android…
With its upcoming Windows Phone 7 just on the horizon, you’d expect Microsoft to throw a few jabs at the Apple iPhone. However, you wouldn’t expect it to associate one of its own products with failure while doing so. That’s exactly what Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner did during the keynote speech at the…
Conveniently close to RIM’s announcement of BlackBerry Protect, Microsoft has announced that Windows Phone 7 will include a web element called Windows Phone Live, which will include 25 GB of multimedia sharing and syncing through SkyDrive, Find My Phone, which will let you hone in on your phone’s GPS location via PC, along with remote…
In a pretty big milestone for the upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform, the company has released the developer tools that should enable content creators to make apps. This build of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools is still in beta form but the software giant says it’s a near-final version. If other platforms…
If you were hoping to be the first non-Microsoft person to get a Windows Phone 7 handsets, you’re out of luck because the software giant has already given two teens smartphones with its upcoming mobile operating system. These kids deserved it though, as Christian Hood and Eric Lo, 17 and 16, won a developer challenge…
In a move that surprised many myself included, Samsung has released a Windows Mobile 6.5 update for its Epix (SGH-i907) smartphone. It’s a surprising news because AT&T doesn’t sell the phone anymore — at least not from its website. Moreover, Samsung is not exactly known for keeping its devices always up to date. As you…
While this may not be a completely reliable method to determine sales numbers for Microsoft’s KIN phones, it looks like the KIN Facebook app goes a long way to debunk rumors that Microsoft only managed to push our 503 KIN devices since it’s launch earlier this year. Contrary to the rumor going around the interwebs…
While the overall smartphone market in the US is growing in terms of numbers of consumers sporting phones with brains, it seems Google’s mobile operating system, Android OS, is taking consumer and developer market share away from incumbents platforms like BlackBerry and iPhone. A new study from market research firm comScore shows that every one…
If you were worried that the upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system wouldn’t be able to compete against the Apple iPhone with multimedia, you’ll be happy to know that it will be able to play multiple audio and video codecs. There’s nothing really surprising about what type of media files Microsoft Windows Phone 7…