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Microsoft ‘missed an entire generation’ with Windows Mobile
Microsoft has revealed that it has a lot of catching up to do in the mobile phone world, with Steve Ballmer noting that the company lost a whole generation of users.
Microsoft Page-Turning Patent Could Spell Trouble For Apple’s iBooks
Apple, Amazon, and others have worked hard to simulate the experience of reading a book on a tablet computer, device or smartphone. Specifically, Apple’s iBooks iPad application has a page turning feature that replicates the curling of a page when you flip pages in a book. But Microsoft is claiming that it invented this feature in a patent application, according to a GoRumors report
Silverlight shows up on Symbian handsets
Symbian phones might be getting hammered in the press a little bit at the moment, but that hasn't stopped companies developing for it, with Microsoft's Silverlight the next in line. The new Silverlight 'experience' will be available for Symbian S60 5th edition handsets, although no word on whether this includes non-Nokia phones. Now added to the Ovi Store, handsets like the Nokia X6 and 5800 XpressMusic are taking advantage of the next-gen tech, which will allow users to browse richer content on the web
T-Mobile kills off current Sidekicks, Kin says ‘welcome to the club’
It's truly remarkable to see almost every trace of a successful, well-established Valley start-up's work wiped out in the span of 24 hours, but here we are: T-Mobile's discontinuing the Sidekick line as of tomorrow, July 2, which effectively means that the Sidekick LX 2009 will no longer be available. As a refresher, the latest Sidekick LX was the last product holistically engineered by Danger as it got shoehorned into Microsoft -- square peg in a round hole, as it were -- before repurposing the team to work on the just-killed Kin line. In a way, it's a miracle that the LX ever went back on sale following the nightmarish data issues they'd gone through last year, so we suppose it's a silver lining that they made it this far -- but still, it's sad to see Danger's years of design effectively vaporized without a trace like this.
Microsoft Kin One and Two UK launch killed
Microsoft has decided not to launch the Kin One and Kin Two in the UK – and has decided to scrap the whole project altogether.
Apple iPhone 4 parts cost around £125
iSuppli has estimated that each iPhone 4 costs Apple $187.51 (around £125) in components – with the Flash memory and the screen the most expensive parts of the next generation phone.
Decoding Microsoft’s Fantastic Passive-Agressive Numbers Post
Yesterday, Microsoft communications head Frank Shaw put up a post on The Official Microsoft Blog rattling off some numbers regarding many of Microsoft’s products. The intention was obviously to lend some perspective to some of the negative coverage Microsoft has been getting recently.
Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 is ‘ad-serving machine’
Microsoft reps have claimed that its next mobile operating system is going to be an "ad-serving machine" according to a new demo of Windows Phone 7.
NNSFW: A Column Written In Five Minutes About Stuff That Mattered Years Ago
“Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren’t necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.” - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Slaughterhouse Five In Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s most famous book, Billy Pilgrim is a former soldier who finds himself lost in time: forced to live and relive the periods of his life in random order.
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