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Microsoft bringing more than 300 eBooks for kids to Windows Phone
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Microsoft is teaming-up with children’s eBook publisher Touchybooks to bring more than 300 interactive children titles to Windows Phone by the end of June. Under the tight schedule, the first 150 eBooks are already available with 20 more hitting Windows Marketplace for Mobile every friggin’ day.
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Evernote hits Windows Phone 7, marches steadily toward complete device domination
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Evernote this week announced that its eponymous note-taking software has finally hit Windows Phone 7, the latest in a long line of platforms that includes everything from webOS to Google Wave. Like the dozen or so other versions, the app is all about saving ideas and syncing them across compatible devices. This one, however, was built around WP7's UI, with pivoting panels devoted to Notes, Notebooks, Tags, and Recent Notes. The app is available now for free from the App Hub, so take note -- by writing the information on your hand or something.
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QQ Browser Now Live In Windows Phone Marketplace
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Tencent QQ or QQ the most popular free instant messaging platform in China with more than 600 million users have now released a browser for Windows Phone platform called QQ browser. The browser is still in preview stage, so the responsiveness is not great. Except for the homepage, there is no other compelling reason for me on using this app. Another app from QQ called Mobile QQ for Windows phone 7 is an Instant Messaging application is also available in marketplace with which QQ users can chat with friends anywhere anytime.
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iOS5 faster than Mango at HTML5 rendering? Wrong!
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Winrumors have claimed that the latest version of iOS5 has overtaken Windows Phone 7 Mango in the HTML5 speed rendering stakes, going from 1-2 fps to 32 fps, faster than the 25 fps demonstrated for Mango at MIX11.
What Tom has not taken into account was that Mango has continued to improve itself, and in testing done by The Next Web Windows Phone 7 repeatedly hit 41 FPS, and this is of course with a Snapdragon processor generations older than that in the iPhone 4.
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Nokia Now Believes First WP7 Handset Will Launch this Year
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Speaking at an event in Singapore today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the company is on track to release its first Windows Phone 7 handset by the end of the year. Elop said, "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012." Nokia has previously been more ambivalent about the launch of its WP7 handsets. Nokia also said that it plans to launch as many as 10 new Symbian handsets during the next 12 months. Nokia is replacing Symbian with Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform moving forward.
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Google's Chrome Frame Lets IE Users Bypass Sysadmins
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Stuck in the shackles of a subpar browsing experience because your boss swears by the robust feature set offered in IE6? Want IE9's HTML5 support, but can't get it because your company's still using Windows XP? Google wants to help. They've offered the "Chrome Frame" plug-in for older versions of IE as a technological band-aid for years, but you've always needed admin privileges to install it. Not anymore – the newest Chrome Frame iteration bypasses the need for admin rights entirely, allowing tech-savvy corporate computers users to give the middle finger to IT departments throughout the world.
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Microsoft rolls out HTML5 SkyDrive
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Microsoft has announced an HTML5 version of its SkyDrive online storage system, boasting that the new service is faster, easier to navigate and makes your photos more beautiful.
With the major companies all looking to the cloud, Microsoft is keen to make the most of its existing online strengths, including its well received SkyDrive storage solution.
An HTML5 version is in keeping with its push towards the web standard, and allows the browser to take advantage of hardware acceleration to speed up its offering.
Time-saving
"Common tasks and scenarios, like clicking on folders and navigating photo albums will go from 6-9 seconds down to 100-300 milliseconds," explains Microsoft.
"We took advan...
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Microsoft To Port Its Zune HD Apps To Windows Phone
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Last week, DaveMcLauchlan, Senior Business Development Manager from Zune team revealed that Microsoft is trying to port its Zune HD apps to Windows Phone platform during Zune Insider Podcast. There is no word on 3rd party apps though. However Zunited expects over 26 apps from Zune HD that are not on Windows Phone in any form(some apps like Facebook, email, etc are already on Windows Phones) to get ported. Hit the Zunited link to get the full list of apps and games expected.
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Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer 9 Mobile Test Drive
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If you want to see how your website will look in Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 mobile browser, then you can now do so with a new Mobile Test Drive site. Microsoft has just launched the tool so that developers can make sure their sites mesh with the new browser that’s set to launch with the upcoming Windows Phone 7.1 Mango update.
The Mobile Test Drive site will work similar to the Internet Explorer 9 desktop version test drive site where various development samples will be published to highlight features and capabilities. Both the desktop and mobile versions of Internet Explorer 9 use the same core rendering engines and adhere to the concept of “same markup,” but the Microsoft team fel...
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Microsoft gets FTC approval to buy Skype
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The FTC on Friday said it had given approval to Microsoft's buyout of Skype. The clearance determined that the deal wouldn't create any significant anti-competitive issues. The filing didn't say whether other agencies had to close the deal, which Microsoft had only said would be approved by the end of 2011.
Many have raised alarms over the deal given that Microsoft would take ownership of the dominant Internet calling company. It could theoretically use the deal to cut off support for other platforms, particularly Android and the iPhone, or else give favorable treatment for Windows Phone and other core platforms. Microsoft has insisted it would support other platforms but has had a poor trac...
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ChevronWP7 Labs will jailbreak your Windows Phone with Microsoft's approval
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Microsoft just earned itself a boatload of geek-cred and made Apple and Sony look pretty bad in the process. We knew the Windows Phone team was playing nice with the jailbreakers from ChevronWP7, but we didn't realize just how cozy the two were going to get. Today the devs announced that ChevronWP7 Labs would open up soon, with the approval of Redmond, allowing users to load homebrew apps on their handsets. Unlike tools from the iPhone Dev Team, this service won't be free. Instead, customers will have to cough up a small fee via PayPal -- but we're sure many of you are more than willing to pay a reasonable price to avoid the sort of cat and mouse game Apple has been playing with hackers sinc...
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Windows 8 Nears Beta, Build 7989 Screenshot Leaks
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be nearing beta with new screenshots leaked today from a Milestone 3 copy. The interface was first demoed at the D9 conference by Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky and even shown running on prototype tablet hardware at Computex 2011. For developers anxious to get a hold of the beta build of Windows 8, rumors suggest the full leak could be coming soon.
The new screenshots published today from MDL via BetaArchive shows a new background and boot screen along with the return of the Microsoft betta fish. The betta fish was used back in Windows 7 beta as a wallpaper and soon turned into a mascot for Microsoft’s beta stages of Windows 7. Its return to build 7989 of W...
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Microsoft Gets Anti-Trust Approval for Skype
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Microsoft’s $8.5 billion proposed acquisition of Skype is one step closer to being a done deal today, with regulators officially giving the Redmond based software giant the green light to proceed with its merger plans. The deal has been stuck in regulatory limbo since it was announced in May, however analysts almost universally agreed that it was unlikely to raise many red flags given how competitive the VOIP space is these days.
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Would Steve Ballmer Leave Microsoft After Win 8?
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Bill Gates will forever be the number one name attached to the company, but the powerful locomotive that steams ahead at Microsoft is clearly Steve Ballmer.
So surprising it is, then, to read a rumor that says that Ballmer will step down from his position at Microsoft following the release of Windows 8. Website Windows8update.com said it received a tip from a source that says that the current Microsoft CEO will resign sometime after the launch of Windows 8.
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Windows Phone 7 Device Unlock Tool to be Sanctioned by Microsoft
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Power users looking to get the most out of their Windows Phones have something special to look forward to. ChevronWP7 is a utility that allows consumers to developer unlock their Windows Phone 7 devices. This provides the capability to side-load applications to the phone without going through the Marketplace, as well as providing lower level access to things like the system registry. Typically this functionality requires a $99 per year subscription to Microsoft’s App Hub.
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