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Microsoft, Windows Phone 8 hardware must keep up with the ti...

This is a question that I never thought I'd ask -- Is the hardware leaving Windows Phone 8 behind its fierce competition? In September last year, I asserted that "Windows Phone 8 is the best idea Microsoft has had in phone tech&q [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Launches “Next App Star” Competition For Windows P...

You know a mobile app store is still young and needs more content when the company behind it still writes its own blog posts when interesting new apps appear in it. With 150,000 apps, the Windows Phone store isn’t actually quite as [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft lashes out at Google’s decision to spurn Windows P...

Dave Heiner, vice president and deputy general counsel for Microsoft (MSFT), took aim at Google (GOOG) and the company’s unwillingness to develop for Windows Phone 8 in a blog post on Wednesday. Heiner claims that, “Google con [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft holds Windows Phone 8 hopes

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone entered the U.S. market Friday, giving Microsoft another chance to garner some elusive smartphone market share, analysts say. The Nokia device is the first phone to be availab [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft: Windows Phone to catch up in apps

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft launched a new version of its Windows Phone software with broad support from smartphone makers, cellphone carriers and app developers as the software company tries to position new Windows gadgets as strong [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Buys Into Mimvi To Help Show You Windows Phone 8 A...

Microsoft invested in Mimvi on Tuesday, designed to improve its app discovery capabilities for Windows Phone 8. For if developers build the most wonderful apps for Windows Phone 8, but no one sees them, what happens? Everyone loses. Mi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft accentuates the positive, gives Windows Phone 7.8'...

Reactions to news that Windows Phone 7 devices would never turn into Windows Phone 8 handsets were decidedly mixed, but the company is now making sure people know just what's in the coming "pattern of upgrades." Company evan [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft’s Windows Phone lead Terry Myerson takes our Top M...

VentureBeat is pleased to announce the winner of the first-ever Top Mobile Mover award: Terry Myerson, corporate vice president at Microsoft in charge of the company’s Windows Phone efforts. We’re making the announcement today [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Windows Phone: What's hot & not

Sounds like the usual adulation for a gadget from Apple. In fact, they're actually accolades for a new product from Microsoft. Long ridiculed as the tech industry dullard, Microsoft actually has a hit, at least with the technorati. It [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft's Windows Phone Jailbreak Partner Considers Callin...

Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows Phone still has a lot of promise for sales success in the smartphone space, but that promise has thus far gone almost wholly unrealized. Still, the company has a loyal contingent of developers th [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Microsoft's Windows Phone Gaining Apps: Report

Microsoft’s Windows Phone could rack up 50,000 apps in its marketplace in January 2012, according to a new estimate from the blog All About Windows Phone. “At the current growth rate, we estimate that Windows Phone Marketpl [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Takes Windows Phone 7 Marketing Up a Notch With Wi...

A number of new Windows Phone devices — including the excellent Focus Flash — launched this week and Microsoft decided to celebrate with a big media blitz in New York City. Microsoft built a six-story Windows Phone with tru [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Aims Windows Phone At Low-End Market

Microsoft is pushing Windows Phone into the lower end of the smartphone market, heading off Android and iOS fter months of positioning its smartphone platform as the counterpoint to high-end competitors such as Apple’s iPhone and so [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango review

Nearly a year after its initial release, Windows Phone 7 becomes 7.5 with the arrival of Microsoft’s ‘Mango’ update. It’s much anticipated by current WP7 users, but is this fruit juicy enough to tempt those conside [...]