Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Microsoft Releases Tool and Whitepaper for iOS Developers

May 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Developers looking to port their apps over to the Windows Phone 7 platform are getting help from the folks over at Microsoft. The giant has created a set of two items they can use for the job.

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Windows Phone Mango, Windows Phone 7.5?

April 25th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

It seems like Windows Phone 7 is about to receive a name change as Microsoft releases the Mango update this fall. The giant called the new Mango update Windows Phone 7.5 on one of it’s websites.

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Nokia to Launch WP7 Store

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft and Nokia have signed their cooperation agreement earlier than both expected and that brought some interesting news to the table. Nokia is the first vendor that will have their own WP7 store.

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Microsoft Plans Big Windows Phone Update

April 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Somewhere along autumn, Microsoft is planning a big update for Windows Phone 7. This update is called Mango and will bring developers a lot of new abilities.

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Microsoft Launches New WP7 Development Tool

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has launched the beta version of Touch Studio, a new development sapp for their Windows Phone 7 devices. O yeah, it is an app that you need to run on your WP 7 device.

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IDC: Windows Phone 7 Second Largest Platform by 2015

March 29th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to new research from IDC, Windows Phone 7 seems to have potential to become the second largest mobile operating system by 2015. Android will have the lead in that year.

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Apple to Sue MiKanDi Too!?

March 23rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Following the lawsuit towards Amazon, it seems like Apple will also start chasing MiKanDi, an Android app store. Reason for this is that MiKanDi promotes itself as the first ‘Adult App Store’.

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Microsoft’s Zune Hardware EOL!?

March 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | 1 Comment »

According to an anonymous source at Bloomberg, Microsoft is set to end production of new Zune media players. Zune never made it outside of the US and never managed to be a real competitor to the iPod.

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Try Before You Buy Successful on Windows Phone 7

March 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Following our report on the Dutch market yesterday, Microsoft released more metrics on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The total app count is now at 9.000, up 1.000 in about a month.

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MWC: Microsoft Details Windows Phone 7 Updates

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

The first update with cut & paste and CDMA support is set to hit Windows Phone 7 in March. Later this year, Microsoft will also provide a big update that is detailed below.

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