Mobile giant Nokia has unveiled a prototype of smartphone on Windows Phone 7 platform, reports Electronista . Model was demonstrated by Jo Harlow, Head of Nokia’s Smart Devices unit during Mobile World Congress.
Harlow has also confirmed that the company is actually developing the prototypes of models based on Microsoft’s mobile operating system. However, she has not revealed any information about these models. At the moment nothing is known about their names, or specifications, or …

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At the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft has revealed that its update for the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system include integration to its top-selling Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 gaming console.
In a keynote address at the said conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed several features, including Kinect integration, to attendees.
The said update, which will be released in March, also integrates a copy and paste …

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Microsoft will be releasing an update for the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating software this coming March, according to a report from Neowin.
The WP7 update was supposed to be released last Feb. 7, but some changes made by the Redmond, Washington-based software giant and some phone manufacturers pushed back the release.
After the changes are incorporated into the platform, a testing period of two to three weeks will be conducted placing the date of the …

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“It’s now a three-horse race,” Nokia Oyj Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop said.
Nokia announced today that it will make the Microsoft Corp.-developed Windows Phone platform the primary software platform for its high-end phones, in a bid to become more competitive in the persistently aggressive smartphone industry currently led by Apple Inc. and Google Inc.
Various experts see the partnership as confirming Nokia’s and …

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Google’s Android mobile operating system boosted its lead over Apple’s iOS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and Palm in smartphone platform market share in the United States for the fourth quarter of 2010, data from research firm comScore show.
Meanwhile, Research in Motion continues to hold on to it lead but it also posted a decrease in share for the said quarter.
According to comScore, the Android platform gained 7.3 percent in market share for the three …

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Microsoft has released to developers its latest update to the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system giving the added functionality of being able to cut and paste.
In other news, developers have already hacked the said latest release, according to a post on XDA Developers.
Meanwhile, the said release is expected to be released publicly by the end of February, various reports say.
In a blog post on the official Microsoft blog, the company said:
“Soon …

Microsoft has revealed that a Yahoo Mail IMAP server glitch is causing the now-famous Windows Phone 7 (WP7) ‘phantom data’ problem, various reports confirm.
In January, the Redmond, Washington-based company revealed that the glitch which caused WP7 devices to eat up data allotments was caused by an unnamed third-party.

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According to consumer complaints, WP7 users were shocked that their devices seemed to consume significantly higher than usual data over …

Microsoft has been reluctant to explain the cause of “Phantom Data” leaks on Windows on Windows Phone 7 hand sets in which iPhones send and receive data without the owner being aware  of it. However, the software giant has now revealed that Yahoo was the cause of the glitch, and it is now working on a solution.

Windows Phone 7 owners began reporting at the beginning of the year that phones were eating up huge amounts of data everyday for some unknown reason. The data was causing the …

Netgear global chairman and CEO Patrick Lo criticized Apple’s “closed” business strategy today at a lunch in Sydney, various reports say.
The entrepreneur also said that Microsoft, its foray into the mobile operating systems industry with Windows Phone 7 giving a dismal performance, may be too late in the game and will never be able to catch up.
Meanwhile, Lo praised Google’s Android mobile OS’ “openness” and predicted that in the end, it will become the dominant platform in …

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Microsoft Corp. has revealed that it has sold more than 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices a little over three months after the mobile operating system’s debut, various reports say.
The Redmond, Washington-based software giant has been shy about revealing figures of its Windows Phone 7 devices in the past.
Some attribute this to the fact that when Apple introduced the iPhone four last year, it sold 1.7 units in just three days.
However, some have the opinion that the …