Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Microsoft Finalizes Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools

September 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Microsoft has finalized the Windows Phone 7 SDK. The first phones supporting Windows Phone 7 will be out on the market in about a month from now so it is about time they did.

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Verizon Not to Sell Windows Phone 7 Before 2011 – UPDATED

September 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

According to Bloomberg, Verizon has announced that it will not be selling Windows Phone 7 devices until 2011. In fact, Verizon will ‘probably release a phone’ in 2011 which doesn’t sound all too well for the OS.

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Microsoft NL Speaks About Windows Phone 7 Launch

July 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Maarten Sonneveld, Business Group Lead Mobile Communications at Microsoft Netherlands has announced that Microsoft NL regrets the unavailability of the Marketplace in The Netherlands.

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Microsoft Drops Kin, T-Mobile US Adopts Sidekick

July 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Microsoft has announced that it will abandon further production and development of their KIN devices. KIN devices are the result of the Danger acquisition by Microsoft some years ago.

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MU: Microsoft, The Windows Phone 7 Experience

May 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Matthijs Hoekstra from Microsoft explains that Microsoft is ready for a new start with the new Windows Phone 7 platform. He noted that a ‘next’ version for Windows Mobile was dropped for Windows Phone 7.

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Steve Ballmer’s iPad Review

May 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Steve Ballmer has taken the time to review Apple’s iPad. Though the video is meant as a joke, there are some aspects in this review that are pretty serious in regards to web functionality.

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Mobile Unconference Website Updated

May 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Over the past week, we made several updated to the Mobile Unconference website. One of them is a small list with several big speakers that we can already announce as well as international ticketing information.

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Microsoft Supports Apple

May 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the battle for Flash, Microsoft has announced that it understands Apple’s move away from Flash and toward HTML 5.0 for mobile devices. IE will fully support HTML 5.0, but there is no word on WinMo 7 or Silverlight.

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Zune HD Hacked

April 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Hackers have found their way into the Zune HD, Microsoft’s competitor to Apple’s iPod Touch. With the hack, developers lifted all XNA restrictions and they released an SDK.

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Windows Phone 7 Series Name Change

April 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

When even Microsoft’s own employees start making jokes about a product name, you know it was a bad choice. In this case, the company decided to shorten Windows Phone 7 Series.