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Microsoft limits number of Windows Phone apps that can be published in a day

The Seattle Times - Janet I. Tu - 30 Sep, 2011
Windows Phone has been attracting more app developers of late, which is good for growing the number of apps in its Marketplace. But it's also getting more "bulk app publishing" -- where a developer publishes a large number of very similar apps in a ...

Enabling 'Internet Sharing' on legacy Samsung Windows Phone 7.5 'Mango' handsets

ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - 30 Sep, 2011
Summary: Simple hack gets 'Internet Sharing' working on the legacy Samsung Focus and the Omnia 7 handsets. Since a few people have asked me about this, I thought I'd pass on this information. ...

HTC: Windows Phone 7.5 can take on Android

ZDNet UK - Kevin Kwang - 30 Sep, 2011
The launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, codenamed Mango, has received the thumbs-up from Taiwanese phone maker HTC. An HTC executive has talked up the prospects of Windows Phone ...

Nokia to cut 3500 jobs by 2012 in latest round of layoffs

Los Angeles Times - 30 Sep, 2011
Nokia announced it would cut 3500 jobs in its second round of layoffs in the last six months as it restructures itself to use Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system in its products. The phone maker said the newest job cuts are tied to ...

Nokia continues to develop Linux Meltemi OS for feature phones

The Australian - Chris Griffith - 30 Sep, 2011
ON the back of closing down the Symbian, MeeGo, and Maemo mobile operating systems, Nokia is reported to be continuing its development of a Linux-based operating system for feature phones called Meltemi. Modern feature phones have some of the ...

Nokia Targets Low-End Market With Cheaper OS

Forbes - 30 Sep, 2011
Since 2001, we've been educating millions of monthly readers about mobile technology and its effect on the world. Regularly recognized as an authority in the industry, we're often cited as experts in major media outlets such as the New York Times, ...

Nokia to Turn Mobile Landscape on its Head With 'Meltemi' OS

Fox Business - Zach Epstein - 30 Sep, 2011
Nokia is again developing a proprietary smartphone operating system after announcing this past February that it would abandon both Symbian and MeeGo in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. Citing multiple anonymous sources, ...

Nokia Cuts 3500 Job, Said To Focus On Low-End Software

Forbes (blog) - ‎Sep 29, 2011‎
I've covered European business and technology news for Forbes since 2006, and as London bureau chief since 2008. I'm using this blog to explore some of the disruptive technology and ideas coming out of this region. Before all this I tracked the highs ...

Nokia Aims Software At Low-End Phones

Wall Street Journal - Christopher Lawton - ‎Sep 29, 2011‎
Nokia Corp., having abandoned its ambition to develop a high-end operating system, is shifting its programming efforts toward creating software for its low-end phones, according to people familiar with the matter. ...

Nokia is developing a low end operating system

Inquirer - Kate O'Flaherty - ‎Sep 29, 2011‎
By Kate O'Flaherty FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia is developing a low end operating system (OS) using Linux-based Meltemi. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move follows the firm's decision to abandon efforts to produce the high end Meego OS that it ...

Is Meltemi the full touch S40 OS from Nokia

Moneycontrol.com - ‎Sep 29, 2011‎
Nokia took their own sweet time in transitioning to the world of touchscreen mobiles. It started off with S60 5th Edition, then moved onto Symbian^3, Anna and now, Belle. They've even thrown in a MeeGo OS-based phone, the N9, which should be launching ...

Nokia developing low-end phone operating system - WSJ

Reuters India - Sakthi Prasad, Anshuman Daga - ‎Sep 28, 2011‎
A staff member displays a Nokia N9 smartphone at a news conference in Espoo, June 21, 2011. REUTERS - Nokia Oyj is shifting its programming efforts toward creating software for its low-end phones, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar ...

Nokia Oyj developing low-end phone operating system: Report

Economic Times - ‎Sep 28, 2011‎
Nokia Oyj is shifting its programming efforts toward creating software for its low-end phones, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. Nokia, which abandoned its ambition to develop a high-end operating system, ...

The Nokia N9 - The Nexus One That Became a Nexus 6

Forbes - ‎Sep 28, 2011‎
I live in London, but really live in a welter of RSS feeds, virtual worlds and my own and other people's ideas - so nothing unusual there. Technology is a way to navigate this modern mess, or failing that a way to drown in it more pleasantly. ...

Mango is a sweet upgrade for Windows Phone 7

USA Today - Edward C. Baig - ‎Sep 28, 2011‎
A year or so after Microsoft gave the boot to its creaky Windows Mobile software in favor of Windows Phone 7, the revamped operating system for smartphones still seems radically fresh. By Edward C. Baig The Windows Phone ...

Nokia N9: last of the line

The Guardian - ‎Sep 28, 2011‎
Nokia chief Steven Elop is betting on the success of Window's software in the company's next generation of smartphones. Photograph: Markku Ulander/AFP/Getty Nokia has started shipping the N9, which is expected to be the company's final smartphone ...

Microsoft India Offers Free Windows Phone Devices To Student Developers

Penn Olson - Vikas Sn - 30 Sep, 2011
In a bid to promote its new mobile operating system and attract young app developers, Microsoft India is offering free Windows Phone devices to students under a program called 'i unlock joy'. ...

Rumor: Nokia's Windows Phone 7 to ...

Neowin - 30 Sep, 2011
While Samsung and HTC have recently announced their upcoming smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, the world is awaiting what Nokia will do with its WP7-based devices. There have been hints and rumors about what Nokia has ...

MS names Nokia WinPho models in compo blunder

Reg Hardware - Caleb Cox - 30 Sep, 2011
Microsoft has inadvertently leaked the names of forthcoming Nokia Windows Phone handsets by including them in the terms and conditions of a competition. The Nokia Sabre, as well as the familiarly-named Nokia Sea ...

Mango for WIndows Phone 7 Adds Multitasking and Voice Command

International Business Times - Anthony Myers - 30 Sep, 2011
Windows Phone 7 will become Windows Phone 7.5 as soon as the Mango update to the operating system completes it's launch over the coming months. It's the first major upgrade since Windows Phone 7 ...

Nokia Drive for Mango adds voice control but AT&T ignoring Searay say tipsters

SlashGear - 30 Sep, 2011
Nokia is reportedly readying a voice-control update for its mapping software, with the new PND app set to debut on the company's first Windows Phone handset. According to WinRumors' tipster, a T-Mobile Germany product display â€" temporarily erected at ...

Nokia to bring 3D maps and voice navigation to Windows Phone with 'Nokia Drive ...

The Next Web - 30 Sep, 2011
With Nokia's Windows Phone smartphones expected to launch in the coming weeks, details of what the Finnish mobile giant will include in its new handsets are starting to emerge after T-Mobile marketing posters leaked describing Nokia's 3D mapping and ...

Nokia getting ready to launch new OS for low-end phones

Mobile bloom News - 30 Sep, 2011
Within the last year, Nokia has partnered up with Microsoft to run Windows Phone 7 operating systems in Nokia handsets. This would prove to be a very good move by two companies that are at the bottom of the mobile industry food chain. ...

WinInfo Short Takes: September 30, 2011

Windows IT Pro - 30 Sep, 2011
An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a follow-up on that Microsoft employee meeting, thinking about Nokia's Windows Phones, Nokia lays off more workers, Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7.5 developer tools, ...

Microsoft Becomes Proactive On Windows Phone Marketplace Policy

CrazyEngineers VoiCE - Guneet Khanuja - 30 Sep, 2011
Microsoft has just declared modifications to its window phone marketplace policy. This policy is applicable for app developers and it restricts them in a way that the number of apps that a developer can get sanctioned in a day will now be reduced from ...

How to Force Update Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

DeviceMAG - Christian Cawley - 30 Sep, 2011
Looking for the latest update to Windows Phone but don't seem to be able to persuade Zune to let you have it? Considering buying a brand new Windows Phone just to get the Mango goodness that turns the platform from “okay” to “amazing”? ...

Nokia Meltemi Platform for Mobile Phones Taking Shape

DeviceMAG - Sanjeev Ramachandran - 30 Sep, 2011
As you know, Nokia would ditch both Symbian and MeeGo platforms for Microsoft Windows Phone. But once again, it is developing a proprietary mobile platform code-named Meltemi. Nokia's executive vice president of mobile phones Mary McDowell is said to ...

Microsoft admits Windows Phone 7 user location privacy problems

V3.co.uk - Khidr Suleman - 30 Sep, 2011
Microsoft has admitted that its Windows Phone 7 smartphones have been gathering user location data without the user's permission, but claims that this is as a result of bugs and that they will be fixed with the Mango 7.5 update. ...

Could Windows Phone 7 Unseat Android in the Mobile OS Space?

The VAR Guy - Dave Courbanou - 30 Sep, 2011
Did you know Microsoft gets a nice slice of Android pie every time a handset or tablet maker ships and sells an Android device? Thanks to Microsoft patents, by the end of Microsoft's 2012 fiscal year it stands to make about $444 million in revenue just ...

 

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