Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have finalized the creation of a joint venture that will deliver e-reading applications, and the new company will be called Nook Media LLC, the book seller said on Thursday. Previously called NewCo, the joint ...
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Windows Phone 7.8 is available on Nokia’s new Lumia 510, but the company still won’t say when existing phones will get the update. On Monday, Nokia confirmed that the Lumia 510 is shipping with Windows Phone 7.8. However, the ...
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Samsung announced a new range of products under the name Ativ last night, making it the first manufacturer to reveal its Windows Phone 8 mobile device. The Ativ S smartphone was unveiled at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, ...
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Reports that Microsoft could launch its own Surface smartphone next year have surfaced again, leading some tech experts to ask: "Why, pray tell, why?" The latest round of speculation began Monday when the China Times reported Microsoft ...
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AT&T Thursday disclosed plans to sell the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones for its 4G LTE networks, along with other Windows Phone 8-based devices, some time in November. AT&T said it's exclusively selling the Lumia 920 ...
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AT&T confirmed Thursday it will carry two HTC smartphones, the One X+ quad-core smartphone and the dual-core One VX "in the coming months." Pricing was not announced, however. The HTC One X+ AT&T also confirmed it will have the ...
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LG is making the next Google Nexus smartphone and plans to launch it on Oct. 29, according to a French newspaper and others. The device, said to be modeled after the LG Optimus G device, appears to have a slightly curved top and bottom ...
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Microsoft today launched a new version of its development centre for Windows Phone devices, hoping to encourage more developers to create apps compatible with the mobile software. The Dev Centre has evolved from the App Hub previously ...
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Windows Phone 7.8 is available on Nokia's new Lumia 510, but the company still won't say when existing phones will get the update. On Monday, Nokia confirmed that the Lumia 510 is shipping with Windows Phone 7.8. However, the company ...
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Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the second quarter, as potential buyers of Apple's phones and operators hold off purchases in anticipation of a rumored new iPhone 5 by October, research firm Strategy ...
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IDG News Service - This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first ...
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Nokia might not be the favored vendor du jour of a Windows Phone 8 smartphone, but the Finnish cell-phone maker nonetheless issued a diplomatically worded statement in response to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's praise for HTC's 8X and 8S ...
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Fiberlink, a global leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for application management and mobile device management security, has made a free on-demand webinar titled "Enterprise Mobile App Management Essentials" available for ...
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Users of Windows Phone 7-based phones will have to wait until the new year for the long-promised version 7.8 updates to the obsolete operating system. The update is intended to improve customisation and mimic the features and functions of ...
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Microsoft has resumed publishing applications on Marketplace, after sorting out a problem related to the certificates used to sign apps in the store, according to a post on Thursday on its Windows Phone developers' blog. The fix Microsoft ...
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