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Article | 13/10/2011 Microsoft and Nokia push Windows Phone porting tool
Microsoft and Nokia are wooing Symbian developers, offering them help in porting applications to Windows Phone ahead of the launch of the Finnish comp...
Article | 5/10/2011 Microsoft zapping Zune music player
Microsoft, confirming one of the technology industry’s worst kept secrets, is killing off its Zune music player about 5 years after its debut as a pot...
Article | 4/10/2011 Mango update progressing, but Samsung owners have to wait
Microsoft has invited 50 percent of eligible Windows Phone users to update to version 7.5, also known as Mango, Microsoft's Eric Hautala said in a <a ...
Article | 29/09/2011 Nokia lays off 3,500 employees
Nokia is planning to lay off an additional 3,500 employees, as the company continues to restructure after announcing its decision to focus on Microsof...
Article | 29/09/2011 When will your phone get Windows Phone 7.5 Mango?
Microsoft announced this week that it has officially launched has the first major software update to its Windows Phone platform, formerly known as the...
Article | 29/09/2011 Windows Phone Mango: How to upgrade now
Microsoft has started rolling out its Windows Phone 7.5 update, with more than 500 new features including a new music hub and better multitasking. But...
Article | 29/09/2011 Microsoft signs Android licensing deal with Samsung
Microsoft has signed a cross-license patent agreement with Samsung Electronics that grants Microsoft royalties from Samsung's Android-based smartphone...
Article | 28/09/2011 Windows Phone Mango: 10 things you need to know
I was fortunate to sit down this morning with Microsoft's Paul Bryan, Windows Phone senior director of product management and enterprise experiences, ...
Article | 20/09/2011 Appcelerator opens mobile marketplace for developers
Appcelerator, whose Titanium platform is used to develop cross-platform apps for smartphones and tablets, has opened Open Mobile Marketplace, a store ...
Article | 13/09/2011 App stores should cooperate to improve smartphone security
App store vendors need to collaborate more closely to keep smartphone users safe, including putting together a system for grading application security...
Article | 2/09/2011 HTC's Mango phones, Titan and Radar, out next month
HTC launched two smartphones on Thursday running Microsoft's latest update of its mobile operating system, called Mango, as Microsoft struggles to gai...
Article | 24/08/2011 SDK for Windows Phone 7.5 apps will arrive in September
The final version of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 will arrive at the end of September. It allows developers <a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_p...
Article | 23/08/2011 Microsoft readies app submission process for Mango
Microsoft will release a <a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/08/22/quick-update-on-mango-app-submissions.aspx">deta...
Article | 11/08/2011 Gartner: Smartphones boom, overall mobile sales drop
Mobile phone sales floundered during the second quarter, in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. But smartphone sales continued to grow, as Android ex...
Article | 10/08/2011 Nokia scrapping Symbian in the U.S. for Windows Phone 7
We knew it was going to happen, but Nokia's finally made it official: the company is killing off Symbian in North America. Nokia president Chris Weber...