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Dell Ends Sales Of Venue Pro Windows Phone Device
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It comes to an end! Dell has ended the sales of its first and only Windows Phone device Dell Venue Pro. The device when got leaked created lots of buzz and excitement and later went on to become a great example of poorly executed product. Until few days back the device was available at dirt cheap price from Dell as it was selling this unlocked device at $299 at its own store whereas in Amazon the unlocked device is still available at a price of just $249. Now Dell no longer sells mobile devices ( Windows Phone+ Android) in US and expects to release few new products later this year.
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Microsoft apologizes over 'Smoked by Windows Phone' controversy, offers winner laptop and phone
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Microsoft's working quickly to counter backlash it's receiving after denying a user who won a Windows Phone challenge his just reward. Yesterday, Sahas Katta won a "Smoked by Windows Phone"...
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Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T to support Visual Voicemail, but other Windows Phone users may not get it
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As we fully expected, the comments on our recent post about AT&T's apparent decision to not push out the lastest bugfix version of Windows Phone, 8107, have expressed a good deal of unhappiness. However, one comment in particular caught our eye, from scrapplejoe, which points out a thread at neogaf suggesting Visual Voicemail is present on the Lumia 900. In fact, there's an even deeper backstory involving a method of forced updating and clever data plan switching first discovered at xda-developers, with which it's possible to get Visual Voicemail working on a Nokia Lumia 800, Focus Flash, or even other devices on AT&T. The trick primarily requires two things: enabling a 4G LTE plan on AT&T (...
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Nokia Play To brings DLNA streaming to Windows Phone
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Nokia has released the beta version of its new Play To app, which will allow its Windows Phone users to stream content from their mobiles to other DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) connected devices.
These days DLNA streaming is found in most mid and high-end smartphones, with both Android and iPhone handsets offering various ways to share content with other devices.
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Windows Phone outselling Symbian in the UK
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Microsoft’s market share in the United States may have been slipping as of late, but what about in the UK? According to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel, Microsoft and Nokia’s gambit may be paying off: Windows Phone 7 has outsold Symbian handsets for the first time, and the Nokia Lumia 800 is proving popular across Europe too.
According to the research, 2.5% of UK consumers bought a Windows Phone handset compared to 2.4% for Symbian over a three month period that ended on February 19th. Not only that, but the Nokia Lumia 800 accounted for 87% of all Windows Phone sales in Europe. Windows Phone apparently does best in Germany, with it accounting for 3.1% of the market.
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HP, Dell and Asus tipped as Windows 8 tablet launch partners
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A number of manufacturers have been tipped as Windows 8 tablet makers eyeing an October release date, including HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and Asus.
The word comes by way of Digitimes and its supply chain contacts, who also finger Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, and Lenovo as working on Windows 8 tablets for an early 2013 launch.
Meanwhile Nokia, Microsoft's bestest bud and tablet wildcard, may release a 10-inch ARM-based Windows 8 tablet in November 2012 to complete the pack.
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Windows 8 PCs and tablets set to launch in October
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Early rumors suggested that devices running Microsoft’s next-generation Windows 8 operating system might launch as soon as this summer, but a new report places the platform’s public release in the fourth quarter. Citing multiple unnamed sources, Bloomberg on Tuesday reported that Microsoft will complete work on Windows 8 this summer, and the first wave of PCs and tablets powered by the new OS will launch in October. Intel x86 and ARM-based devices will both become available at the same time, and Microsoft will reportedly announce its launch plans to industry partners during an event in April. BGR recently reviewed Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which was unveiled during a press conf...
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Developers: Microsoft updates “Download for Windows Phone” buttons again
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We’ve already seen Microsoft changing the style of their “Download for Windows Phone” buttons last June, when it did away with the color options and instead provided a consistent grey-orange color scheme. Now, those buttons have been updated once again to replace the generic download buttons with the new Windows Phone logo introduced in Mango, resulting in a red-grey color scheme and more prominent branding that we personally find more appealing than the previous iteration.
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Lenovo will be 'first to market' with a Windows 8 tablet, says source
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Michael Dell said that he would offer an enterprise tablet "on the exact day" that Windows 8 ships to customers, but his company may have some competition right out of the gate: We've learned that Lenovo is internally planning to be the very first manufacturer to release a Windows 8 tablet, and that the company believes that October is when the operating system will ship. Our source wouldn't provide any details on the slate, save that it will use an Intel chip, but we already saw one possible machine at CES: the 13.3-inch Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga, pictured above, with an attached keyboard on a 360-degree hinge that lets you flip the machine into a laptop configuration.
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Windows Phone accused of being a passionless OS
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Claiming the Windows Phone UI lacked “pizzazz” and did not “stimulates the geek” in him like the super-customizable Android, which made him feel each Android device was made just for him, or the folders in iOS (!?!) which he found a “joy to use”, he found scrolling down a long start page particularly disheartening.
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WP7 Developers, get your apps ready – 23 new Marketplaces are launching this month
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Microsoft has announced that Marketplace will be opening up 23 new countries within a month, and will be accepting submissions within the next 2 weeks.
The new countries include Bahrain, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Vietnam, raising the total number of supported countries to 63 and resulting in a 60% increase in addressable users.
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Microsoft details Internet Explorer 10 security and feature improvements in Windows 8
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Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview turns two weeks old today and Microsoft has started to dig into the security and feature improvements of the company's Internet Explorer 10 browser. With Google and Mozilla both promising their own Windows 8 Metro style browsers, Microsoft has placed a lot of focus on its touch, performance, and security improvements for the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10.
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Critical Windows bug patched
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Microsoft has released six security updates as part of its monthly update cycle – but there's one more of interest than the others.
It fixes a critical loophole in the OS that could potentially be exploited by a worm.
The MS12-020 patches two holes in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for remote PC access.
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Ex-Microsoft Employee Launches 'Fixing Windows 8' Initiative
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It seems that Microsoft's latest version of Windows is receiving a mixed reaction: some people like it, and some people don't. Naturally you can't please everyone on the planet, but we really haven't heard this much negativity since Windows Vista. The biggest issue thus far is that Microsoft seemingly caters to the new touchy consumer and brushed aside the old, making Windows 8 difficult to manage using the typical mouse and keyboard setup.
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Google confirms it's bringing Metro-themed Chrome browser to Windows 8
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Google has confirmed that it is working on a custom version of its extremely popular Chrome browser for Windows 8, an important step to keep Chrome’s momentum growing so that eventually the browser could grow to be more popular than Internet Explorer.
The version of Chrome for Windows 8 will be built in accord with the Metro UI design idea - that of tiles, typography, simplicity and clean looks. In terms of simplicity, Chrome on the outside has always been an emanation of that idea.
“Our goal is to be able to offer our users a speedy, simple, secure Chrome experience across all platforms, which includes both the desktop and Metro versions of Windows 8. To that end we’re in the process of bui...
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