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Microsoft collects licensing fees from two small Android manufacturers
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Two small Android OEMs, Velocity Micro and General Dynamics, each cut a check payable to the order of Microsoft to take care of licensing fees that allow the pair to use the Android OS. Even though Android is considered Google's baby-and rightly so-the gang at Redmond still have some patents involved in the software which the company feels it should be paid for to license to users. The amount of the payments to Microsoft has not been disclosed.
While Velocity Micro and General Dynamics are two small minnows in a sea of sharks, getting the two smaller manufacturer's to pay allows Microsoft to say that a precedent has been set and that since the smaller companies have paid to license Microsoft...
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Microsoft delivers Mango for Developers early
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In a blog post on the Windows Team Blog Brandon Watson announced the new Beta 2 of the Mango developer tools and also the avialability of a beta ROM for retail devices running Mango.
Microsoft is also making 50 developer phones available for student developers registered with DreamSpark if they have a compelling enough mock-up of their application created using Sketchflow.
The update will be fully supported in the following countries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States
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HP confirms it's in talks about licensing webOS, Samsung tipped as a possibility
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HP CEO Leo Apotheker has already indicated that he's totally open to licensing webOS to other companies, and he's now confirmed that HP has, in fact, been in talks with a "number of companies" about that possibility. Not surprisingly, he didn't get much more specific than that, and went some way to dampen expectations a bit, saying that "there is no time pressure to do this." According to Bloomberg, however, "three people with knowledge of the discussions" say that Samsung is one of the companies HP has had talks with, and one said that the company is specifically interested in possibly using webOS for its Galaxy Tab tablets. HP's Jon Rubinstein also dished a bit more on the subject to This ...
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Kik sends passwords and messages without encryption
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Kik, the popular and free messaging service which has just arrived on Windows Phone 7 is a great service that works very well.
Raphael Riviera from WithinWindows has however analysed the data flowing from the app to the internet and discovered the software sends everything, including passwords and messages in plain text.
This means when you are on WIFI at work or cafe for example, anyone with a network analyser on the same network will be able to see your messages, get your full name, user name, email address, password and possibly even impersonate you.
This is a apparently a flaw which has been in existence for at least a year, suggesting the company does not really care about security.
If...
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Windows Phone is first platform to get AmazonFresh app for grocery shopping
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This app is sort of interesting, but the concept is certainly not new. There have been online grocery shopping services before and they have all eventually gone under. Amazon is trying the online grocery thing out again and looking to get the service onto smartens with a new app. You might think that the place to start would be to make the app for the iPhone or Android smartphones. Amazon has chosen Windows Phone as the place to start with the AmazonFresh app.
AmazonFresh is the name of the Amazon grocery shopping service. This actually makes sense when you realize that the grocery delivery service is only in Seattle right now. Seattle is home to Microsoft and you can bet that compared to ot...
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Windows Phone 7 Tango and Apollo updates teased
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The Windows Phone Mango update to Windows Phone 7 isn’t arriving until Autumn but Microsoft’s next move is already well down the pipeline.
Compai Communications which builds devices for Acer and Nokia has reportedly inked a deal to build handsets with the next update, Windows Phone Tango, onboard. Reports say it will be the final update for this generation of Windows Phone 7 with an entirely new version, dubbed Apollo, set to launch in 2012.
Click the headline to jump to the comments and tell us: what does Microsoft need to do next with Windows Phone 7?
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Google+ Android app in the Market
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Google has unveiled their new social layer today, and it is called Google+. The trouble is that it is only open to a select few invitees, and those of us who have been invited are not yet allowed to write about the product in detail. That said, if you are a lucky invitee, be sure to grab the new Google+ app from the Android Market.
The app includes the basic features of the service including Circles (how you choose who you share things with), Stream (shared items), Instant Upload and Huddle. Those last two are the really interesting features. Instant Upload does exactly what it says and automatically uploads photos and video from your Android device, so you can easily share them with others...
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Orange UK's HTC Desire HD getting Android 2.3 update as we speak
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Orange UK and HTC have started rolling out Android 2.3 Gingerbread updates for the Desire HD. If you’re in the “affected” group you can already check to see whether a new update is available. If it isn’t – don’t worry. I’m sure HTC’s servers are dying at the moment as the company tries to push the software to all users.
You probably know what Gingerbread brings, so I won’t repeat it here. Still I’ll mention the improved Copy/Paste which actually makes the functionality usable.
As usual, we remind you it’s good practice to backup all of your PIM data (contacts and calendars) before updating. Your stuff may be in the cloud, but having a local copy is always a plus. When you’re done with that —...
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Chrome OS UK launch: everything you need to know
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Samsung’s Chromebook is hitting UK shores this week, but how does it work? What else will be available that uses Chrome? And what about the data?
All is revealed after the break. Don’t buy a Chromebook until you’ve read it!
Chrome is Google’s operating system that’s always online. That’s right, you do everything through the Cloud (hello, Google Docs!), meaning super quick start up times, and no headaches if your laptop crashes, as everything is always backed up. You can also access your documents wherever you are, as long as you can get online, so no need to have that vital USB key with you.
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Intel keeps MeeGo alive, Atom-powered Ice Cream Sandwich device due Q1 2012?
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Nokia's N9 might have received generally warm reception, but the company's CEO has explicitly said that even if the device is successful, the Finns will ditch the platform in favor of Windows Phone, but even in the current light of events, Intel remains MeeGo's biggest loyalist. It has reiterated plans to continue working on the system with plans laid out through the second quarter of 2012, according to market watchers quoted by DigiTimes.
Intel plans to leverage its insight from PCs to MeeGo-running netbooks and tablets, but the company's plans are even broader as Meego version 1.3 comes with support for smart TVs, car infotainment and multimedia phones in the last quarter of 2011.
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Google now activates 500,000 Android devices per day, on track to hit 1 million per day in October
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On May 10th at the 2011 Google I/O conference, the search engine company announced that they were activating over 400,000 Android devices every single day. Today, via a tweet from Andy Rubin, the father of Android, pictured above wearing glasses, we now know that number is up to 500,000 per day, and more importantly it’s growing at a rate of 4.4% per week. Using some basic maths (500,000 x 1.044 and counting the number of times we hit the equal button on our calculator until it shows a number over 1 million, then adding that number to 26, the current week of the year we’re in) we’ve tabulated that by the end of October the number of Android devices being activated per day should equal just o...
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Apple iOS 5 Beta 2 Includes Wi-Fi Sync, OTA Capabilities
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Apple iOS 5 is slowly but surely coming together as beta 2, which was released to developers recently, includes Wi-Fi sync and the framework for over-the-air (OTA) updates. These features were announced during Apple’s iOS 5 presentation at WWDC 2011, and it is really a nice overhaul of the operating system. Notifications have been improved and are less intrusive, iCloud services and compatibility will be free to iOS 5 users and many more tweaks and upgrades.
MacRumors says that Wi-Fi syncing, which allows users to sync their iOS content with iTunes over a Wi-Fi network, appears to be enabled in the latest beta version of the iPhone platform. In order to activate Wi-Fi syncing capabilities, u...
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Android 3.1 leaks for Acer Iconia Tab A500
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Acer's Android 3.1 (codenamed Honeycomb) update for its Iconia Tab A500 tablet has leaked out. It first appeared on the Chinese website bbs.gfan.com While this update isn't official in the sense that Acer has not yet released it via its own channels, it is the real deal. The leaked update.zip file supports multiple languages and including Google Apps. This means that Android 3.1 ROMS like HoneyVillian and Minimalist 3.1 are no longer required for Iconia Tab A500 owners.
The update brings resizable home screen widgets, support for a variety of new input sources and motion events, the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) API for audio, and other improvements that Motorola Xoom and Asus Eee Pad T...
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How Windows 8 touch relies on IE10
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Is the full-screen touch interface for Windows 8 'just a shell' on top of Windows?
Not really; there isn't an application running like Media Center that you could shut down and it isn't just a browser – this is another mode for the interface that you can switch in and out of. But it is the browser that powers it.
Apps for the immersive Windows 8 interface are written in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS (and presumably, Silverlight – this is the IE10 engine and there's no reason for it not to run plug-ins) and packaged up in an AppX container.
In fact, if you dig into the web standards support that Microsoft has added to IE10, it's clear to see that despite the resemblance to the Silverlight-powered...
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HTC claims Windows Phone 7 dominance, sells 1 in 2 WP7 handsets
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There have been much speculation regarding the contribution each Windows Phone 7 OEM makes to the ecosystem.
Now HTC’s senior executive vice president Fred Liu told CENS HTC is the major player in the Windows Phone 7 market, selling 1 out of every 2 Windows Phones sold.
This is of course despite 4 other OEMs, including giants like LG and Samsung, vying for the business.
HTC also went on to say they sell 2 out of every 10 Android phones. This allows us to see that little more than 10% of HTC’s business is from Microsoft’s OS, which is clearly not much*.
Windows Phone 7 therefore suffers from being dominated by one OEM who is not deeply invested in the OS. With Nokia jumping in head first...
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