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Microsoft: Carrier IQ? Not on Windows Phone

December 1, 2011 No Comments

Carrier IQ has caused quite a stir on the mobile front recently, since it was uncovered that most smart-phones like Android and iPhone run the hidden software. Carrier IQ was designed to collect data from users on their handhelds so carriers can better understand how phones are being used, but to many felt like the software was […]

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Windows Phone Leads All Other Platforms in Click Through Rate

November 30, 2011 No Comments

Even though Microsoft’s relativly new Windows Phone platform is trailing mobile giants like Apple’s iPhone and Google Android in sales. Windows Phone has already gained a top spot in a pretty important category, which is ad click through rate.   This shows that even thuogh the Windows Phone platform is new and still growing, developers […]

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CNET Writer Turns Back on His iPhone – Calls Windows Phone & Nokia Lumia 800 King

November 29, 2011 No Comments

Slowly but surely Windows Phone is turning heads and making people switch over from Android and IOS. I have said it time and time again, after using Windows Phone – icons just do not make sense anymore. Now people are starting to understand. CNET write Rich Trenholm has just written an article titled “Why I […]

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Microsoft’s Craig Mundie on Kinect (Siri vs Tellme) video

November 23, 2011 1 Comment

Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie is not impressed with Apple’s Siri. Last week at the Techonomy conference, he spoke to Forbes about Siri, Windows Phone, Tellme, Kinect and how he feels that Apple pushed Siri because it had no other new features on the new iPhone. He also spoke about hoe Windows Phone has […]

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Microsoft Lync Mobile Coming to Windows Phone Next Month (Android, BlackBerry and iOS Too)

November 23, 2011 No Comments

Gary Holden, a tech enthusiast out of Australia tweeted recently that Microsoft Lync Mobile would be coming to Windows Phone in the next 4 weeks. He also stated that it would also be available for Android, Blackberry and IOS devices like the iPhone. We wouldn’t consider that too much to go on but then Microsoft […]

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WinMobile.se to Close After Microsoft Denies Funding to iPhone Using Editor

November 8, 2011 4 Comments

This is a tricky one here. WinMobile.se editor-in-chief Toni Johansson just informed the world that he will be shutting down the leader on Windows Phone news in Sweden. That in itself is a pretty sad story but it gets pretty weird once you hear why. Toni was looking for funding from Microsoft to give his […]

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Advertising Wars: iPhone 4S vs Nokia Lumia 800

November 3, 2011 1 Comment

This shot of the  iPhone 4S and the Nokia Lumia was taken at the Westfield Mall in Stratford, London. For the first time ever, not only do I think that a Windows Phone display can hang with an iPhone display but it actually goes the extra yard and beats it. If it were me walking around […]

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iFishing Comes to Windows Phone

September 30, 2011 No Comments

The very popular iPhone game by the name of iFishing has hit the Windows Phone Marketplace. The game itself is a very realistic fishing experience and it touts itself more as an emulator than an actual game. Even if you aren’t a big fishing fan, its pretty cool to run this on your Windows Phone […]

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Smaato: Windows Phone Comes in First Place in OS Click Through Rate

September 20, 2011 No Comments

When you are a relatively new OS and your battling your way to the top, you have to take your wins wherever you can get them. Smaato has released their Q2 mobile ad metric reports, Windows Phone has come out #1 US and worldwide in ad click throughs. Apple’s iPhone is a close 2nd in […]

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HTC President: On Windows Phone and How iPhone isn’t Cool Anymore

September 13, 2011 No Comments

Martin Fichter, the acting president of HTC America, had tons to say at the Mobile Future Forward conference in downtown Seattle. His thoughts ranged from Google buying Motorola, the current patents wars to Windows Phone then onto how the iPhone isn’t cool anymore. Google Purchasing Motorola “It is good for the whole ecosystem that Google […]

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Nokia Begins to Advertise the Lumia 710 – Welcome to the Amazing Everyday (video)

With the Lumia 800 being Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone at the moment, its no wonder that it has been getting...

Lenovo LePhone S2 Running Windows Phone Coming 2012

Lenovo announced yesterday its LePhone S2 running Android which seemed to kill any chance of them making a Windows...