October, 2011

Andy Lees at AsiaD: New phones, new OEMs, new market (China), NFC and LTE, and more

prod_HTCTitanATT_webAll Things D is hosting AsiaD from Hong Kong, and Windows Phone President Andy Lees just got off the stage a bit ago, after revealing quite a bit about the future of Windows Phones.

Of course you wouldn’t know it …

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” now available to all, firmware updates coming next week

It has only been three weeks since Microsoft first released their Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” to existing devices globally, and it’s probably one of the smoothest roll-out given its complexity and scale. Originally only made available to 10% of users …

Nokia 800 “Sea Ray” press images leaked, comes with new apps and font

It is less than a week away from Nokia World, to be held on October 26 in London, and more details about the upcoming Nokia Windows Phones are leaking to the web. Just last week we saw a leak of

Windows Phone Marketplace expands to developers in China and India, plus other changes

One week ago Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7.5 in India, bringing three devices – the HTC Radar, Samsung Omnia W, and Acer Allegro to the market by the end of November. Together with the launch, Microsoft also …

Bing Translator to be integrated with eBay, Trip Advisor and more

Microsoft TranslatorA few weeks ago we told you about a new Facebook inline translation service powered by Bing Translator. Well it turns out there will be more websites joining the ranks of Facebook to integrate Bing Translator on their websites. …

What is SkyDrive waiting for?

dropboxToday the headlines are all about Dropbox, and how the fast-rising company turned down an offer from Steve Jobs, who called the file storage and sharing service “a feature, not a product”.  Precisely.

Dropbox has been getting a lot …

Microsoft “It’s great to be a family” spots debut

Microsoft has just posted a couple of its new “It’s great to be a family” ads on YouTube.  The work of ad agency Cripin, Porter + Bogusky, the ads play on the family theme, showing families interacting with the family …

Skype is now officially part of Microsoft

skypeMicrosoft has just officially announced that the deal to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, first announced on May 10, 2011, has closed.  According to the press release:

Skype CEO Tony Bates will assume the title of president of the

Oh look, Xbox 720 rumors all over the place!

xbox720_logo1_1On a day that saw continued Blackberry problems, the release of iOS, which while for some was quite the joyous occasion, seemingly took forever for others and for some even bricked their iPads or iPhones, and news of …

iPhone and Android developers get more guidance and a tool to port apps to Windows Phone

There already were guides for Android, help for iPhone developers (and Symbian QT) but now there is even more guidance based on migration samples and a SQLLite to SQL Server Compact database conversion tool.

There is a series …