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Motorola Just Had Another Blow In Patent Case Against Microsoft
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Motorola Mobility just experienced another blow in the ongoing patent case against Microsoft. Google which came in support of Motorola also had a blow. This is what happened,
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Windows 8 Will Have An App Store And Possibly Kinect Integration
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Microsoft may have inadvertently confirmed some details on Windows 8 today when Windows chief Steven Sinofsky posted a list of teams working on the next-gen operating system. The post, titled “Introducing the team,” was published on Microsoft’s recently inaugurated Building Windows 8 blog and revealed that the next-gen platform will indeed have an app store as well as possible Kinect integrations.
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Study: Microsoft's IE 9 Browser Tops at Blocking Socially Engineered Malware
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Apparently Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser leads the pack in more ways than just market share. With regards to IE9, socially engineered malware (SEM) barely has a chance of wreaking havoc, according to a study put together by NSS Labs. The study's data has IE9 way out in front of all other browsers tested with a better than 99 percent protection rate.
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Microsoft eliminating glossy Xbox 360 in favor of matte finishes
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Glossy finishes on things that we touch a lot like notebooks and game consoles are nice looking – when they are clean. That is a rare occurrence though because as soon as you touch the devices the glossy finish picks up fingerprints and smudges and starts to look rough. I know I don’t want to have to start polishing my console to make it look good.
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Xbox 360 to go forever matte as glossy is discontinued, fingerprints look for a new home
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Say it ain't so! Within the next few weeks Microsoft will be phasing out its 250GB Xbox 360's glossy finish in favor of the murdered-out matte currently found on its 4GB models. Major Nelson recently took to his blog announcing the news amid apparent speculation that the pricier variant would actually be offered in both flavors. If you're a fan of shiny things -- and a lover of fingerprints -- Major says you'll still have time to pick one up as stock is shuffled, and also noted there'll probably be glossy limited editions in the future. Rest in peace dear glossy friend, our microfiber cloths won't know what to do with them themselves.
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Microsoft starts Windows 8 blog, vows not to repeat Vista
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Microsoft geared up for the launch of Windows 8 with the start of an official blog on Monday to help developers. The first post by Windows president Steven Sinofsky recapped the shift to a more mobile focus for the OS but also addressed complaints about the lack of information beyond the first look. More info would come at the Build expo in September, he said, but Microsoft was also taking a cautious approach that only spoke about technology the company was ready to ship.
"We've certainly learned lessons over the years about the perils of talking about features before we have a solid understanding of our ability to execute," Sinofsky wrote. "Our intent with this pre-release blog is to make s...
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Windows Phone 7.5 to freeze updates for WP7.0 apps
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Microsoft has admitted that the upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 update may cause a hiccup for many developers. As developers are beginning to submit applications for the major release, the company cautions that apps released for Windows Phone 7.0 devices will not be able to receive any further updates once a developer posts a v7.5 build.
"We realize that some of you may worry about this limitation, and so we’re actively working on ways to mitigate it," Microsoft's Todd Brix wrote in a blog post. "To improve the experience for users, it’s our preference not to have “duplicate versions” of your apps in the marketplace."
Although the issue may go unnoticed by the first wave of users to take advanta....
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With launch of Mango Marketplace NoDo apps will be frozen
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Microsoft has posted a blog post detailing what effect the roll-out of new Mango apps, which have features which are not compatible with Windows phone 7 NoDo, will have on Marketplace.
It appears once a developer updates an app for Mango, the NoDo version of their app will be held in frozen, available for users who are still on NoDo, but with the developer no longer being able to provide updates for that version of the app.
Only one entry will exist in Marketplace, which will need to be shared by both the NoDo and Mango version. Microsoft expects developers to provide detailed descriptions and screen shots specifying which features are Mango only. Even screen shots will have to be shared, w...
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Microsoft patents new type of mobile slider, puts keyboards and screens on equal footing
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Patents are the currency of the realm these days, and companies accrue them however they can -- whether filing for their own or buying someone else's. Microsoft's no stranger to the patent game, and it's added one more piece to its IP stockpile in the form of a "moveable housing of a mobile communications device." A broad title, to be sure, but the patent essentially covers sliders where the keyboard ends up flush with the screen after it's moved. In existing designs, the sliding display gets in the way of pressing the top row of keys, and squishing the grid's size or fattening up the phone are the only ways to make space for fingers to press them.
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NPD: Gaming sales down 26% in July, Xbox 360 top U.S. console for seventh straight month
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U.S. video game industry sales were down 26% in July compared to the same period last year according to new data published by The NPD Group. Hardware sales were down 29% year-over-year to $223 million, video game software sales dipped 17% to $336.2 million and sales of video game accessories were down 8% to $127.8 million. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the best-selling console in the U.S. for the seventh consecutive month with unit sales of 277,000, though July marked the first time the Xbox saw a year-on-year decline since December 2009.
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Low end Windows Phones should not mean low spec
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There has been a lot of talk lately about the next wave of Windows Phone handsets taking aim at the mid and low end of the market to combat the proliferation of Android devices in that space. It is my hope that Microsoft will not be tempted to let OEMS build cheap lower spec phones just for that purpose. Instead, I think they should follow the Apple model and make the current generation phones be their low end and the next generation be their high end.
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Developers confident in Windows Phone survival, number of WP7 developers to increase 150% in 6 months
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GetJar has published the result of their latest App Meter developer survey, and it holds good news for Windows Phone 7.
They have surveyed 300 developers and found developers were ready to move on from iOS devices to other platforms. While 80% of developers were working on iPhone apps, in 6 months 30% expected to move on to other platforms, primarily Android tablets, which rose from 20.5% now to 47% in the future.
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Report: Compal to start shipping Nokia’s first WP7 smartphones, 2 million in total
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According to Dan Nystedt, ex IDG news, Compal is to start shipments of their first batch of Windows Phone 7 smartphones for Nokia, expected to include the Nokia Sea Ray.
The shipments would be in time for the announcement and simultaneous release of the handset at Nokia World in London on October 26th, and will apparently total 2 million handsets in Q4 2011.
If Nokia does manage to sell all of those handsets it would mean a substantial bump in the number of Windows Phone 7 handsets sold in 2011, currently likely sitting around 5 million.
Nokia has said in 2012 volume shipments will start which will flood the market with a variety of handsets at a variety of price points.
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Closing Nokia stores should be converted to Microsoft stores
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With Nokia’s fortunes falling, they have been forced to shutter some of their stores because of decreased demand. They have closed stores in the UK, US and recently in Russia. These stores were located in prime location so it is shame to see them go. I have no idea if Nokia still owns the buildings but wouldn’t be great if Microsoft bought these stores and converted them to Microsoft stores? They are already in ideal locations, already designed to sell electronic devices so the remodel and conversion should be quick.
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Official Windows Phone Mango update leaks out
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Let's face it, waiting for official releases is awful. We're constantly getting news, images and teasers on everything that's on the horizon, but the actual release date for this stuff is always farther away than we would like. We've been seeing info coming out for Windows Phone Mango for quite a while now, and just when we thought we might see the update pushed out early, it turns out September 1st is just a rumor, so we still don't know when the official update will roll out. Luckily for everyone, the dev community over at XDA loves to get their hands on things early and send it our way.
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