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Microsoft now lets developers write apps for PCs, tablets, and phones
Above: David Treadwell, corporate vice president in Microsoft’s operating systems group, at Microsoft’s Build conference on April 2, 2014. Image Credit: Jordan Novet/VentureBeat SAN FRANCISCO —...
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Hands On With Cortana, Windows Phone’s New Digital Assistant
Microsoft introduced Cortana, the company’s long-rumored answer to Siri, at its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco Wednesday The service, which Microsoft is billing as the first “true”...
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What Microsoft’s Cortana Really Thinks of Siri
Microsoft finally has an answer to Apple’s SiriCortana is the new personal digital assistant — complete with soft female voice — on Windows Phone. And she’s kind of funny sometimes. See also: Hands On...
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Nokia Lumia 930: is This the Future of Windows Phone?
Nokia phones can be a little extreme. The Lumia 1020 has a camera with a ridiculous amount of resolution. The Lumia 1520 is crazy large. Even the company’s feature phones have some wild colors and...
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I, Cortana: How Microsoft’s Answer to Siri Was Born
I’ve just told my new personal assistant that she sucks. She responds very calmly, telling me that my outburst may result in “early-onset rampancy” before giving me the silent treatment. She’s not...
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REPORTS: Facebook To Remove Messaging From Flagship Mobile Apps, Require Use...
Last December, Facebook began prompting users of its flagship iOS application to download its Facebook Messenger app, and the social network also began prompting mobile users to encourage their friends...
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Windows Phone 8.1 Review: Cortana Leads a Feature-Packed Update
Windows Phone has come a long wayMicrosoft’s phone platform has enjoyed a lot of critical success over the past few years, but the praise was mostly for things like design, cool tricks like live...
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Microsoft opens up Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview to all
Image Credit: Microsoft Got a Windows Phone 8 device? If so, you can catch an early look at Microsoft’s next big update. The company this morning made the Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview available...
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone App Review Policy Puts Spotlight on Apple
Microsoft, ever eager to cozy up to developers, is making a change to the Windows Phone Store that should please them. App developers will now be able to respond to user reviews, leaving Apple the...
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Rebuilding An HTML5 Game In Unity
When our HTML5 game Numolition was nearly done, we decided to throw it all away and rebuild it in Unity. That turned out to be an exciting and valuable experience, and one that I thought would be worth...
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F8: Mark Zuckerberg Stresses Platform Stability, Users’ Control Of Data, Gap...
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the social network’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday with a keynote address during which he focused on steps being taken...
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App Links: Facebook’s Proposal For Routing Traffic Between Apps Explained
Two weeks ago, Facebook announced App Links, a proposed standard for routing traffic between mobile applications. If the app developer community adopts the App Links standard, there will finally be a...
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If Apple launches widgets in iOS, I hope it looks like this
Above: iOS blocks concept by Joseph Machalani Image Credit: Joseph Machalani How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat’s 7th annual...
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Facebook Messenger For Windows Phone Gets Groups, Photo Gallery
Facebook rolled out an updated version of Messenger for Windows Phone, adding groups and a photo gallery feature to the application. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media....
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Six Apps to Fuel Your World Cup Fever
The World Cup is finally (almost) here. The tournament will kick off Thursday with a match between Brazil and Croatia But with dozens of matches played over four weeks in 12 cities, keeping track of...
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Cortana will land in China and the United Kingdom in the coming weeks
Image Credit: Magnus Jonasson/Flickr How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat’s 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9...
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Microsoft, Google Yield to Pressure to Improve Phone Security
Microsoft and Google will incorporate a kill switch into the next version of Windows-based and Android smartphones. The feature, which is already featured on Apple’s iPhone 5, allows users to remotely...
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Microsoft unfathomably removes voice-message feature from remastered Skype...
Above: Skype for Outlook.com Image Credit: Skype / Microsoft How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat’s 7th annual event on the...
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Microsoft’s Cortana Could Overtake Paul the Octopus in World Cup Predictions
Cortana, Microsoft’s digital assistant, has successfully predicted the outcome of every match of this year’s World Cup elimination round. This means Cortana is on track to correctly predict more World...
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DreamWorks and Microsoft want to make car rides more fun for kids with their...
Image Credit: Microsoft DreamWorks and Microsoft are unveiling a dragon-themed exploration game today that uses real-world data such as maps, traffic, weather, and time of day. In DreamWorks Dragon...
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No Android for Microsoft: Nokia X Android phones will move to Windows Phone
Above: Nokia’s X2 Android smartphone Image Credit: Nokia Coming as a surprise to no one, Microsoft is killing off Nokia’s experimental Android project. As part of a massive layoff announcement this...
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Microsoft killing off future Nokia Android-based smartphones
As Microsoft finalizes its acquisition of Nokia by fully merging Nokia into the larger Microsoft organization resulting in layoffs of 18,000 employees, they indicate they will also be putting an end...
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Nokia’s Venture Into Android Deserved to Die
The Nokia XL is an enigma. It’s a handset simultaneously feels like an inevitability and an impossibility. A product that finds Nokia momentarily embracing the Android operating system, whilst...
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5 Can’t-Miss Apps: Feedworthy and More
Between Apple’s deal with IBM and news of Microsoft’s massive job cuts, you may have overlooked some of this week’s best new apps Luckily, Mashable creates a roundup each weekend of our favorite new...
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10,000-developer survey: 2% of coders split staggering 54% of all app revenue
It’s a Darwinian world out there. And not many are winning. A new 10,000-developer survey by Developer Economics says that 50 percent of iOS developers and 47 percent of Android developers are “below...
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Microsoft’s new Lumia 530 is its cheapest Windows Phone yet
Image Credit: Microsoft Only a few days after killing off Nokia’s experimental Android phones, Microsoft has unveiled its low-end alternative. The company today unveiled the Lumia 530, a new budget...
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There Will Be One Windows for All Your Devices. Soon.
Windows Pro, Windows RT, Windows Phone — it’s all very confusing, isn’t it? Microsoft thinks so, too. But pretty soon, you won’t have to worry about what version of Windows your device is running,...
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Uber teams up with Microsoft to launch a Windows Phone app
Image Credit: Jason Tester Guerilla Futures/Flickr Now our compatriots with Windows Phones can get in on the fun that is alternative-car service Uber, too. Uber announced the news of a dedicated...
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Nokia Lumia 930: One Solid Windows Phone, Literally and Figuratively
Say what you will about Nokia’s single-minded focus on Windows Phone, but the all-in approach brings with it at least one major plus: for the foreseeable future, the Finnish handset maker’s flagship...
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Imminent Windows Phone Update Will Introduce Folder Support
Windows Phone, the land of dynamic live tiles of various sizes, will soon be a little more like iOS and Android: An update to the platform will introduce the ability to drag several live tiles into a...
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Selfie-lovers, Microsoft is making a Windows Phone just for you
Above: Ellen Degeneres takes a selfie at the 2014 Academy Awards Image Credit: Ellen Degeneres/Twitter Despite revealing that its Nokia purchase cut into its bottom line this past quarter, it looks...
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HTC holding press event on August 19, likely a One (M8) with Windows Phone
Next month in New York City, HTC will be holding press event that could see the introduction of a new product that is a little familiar. The company is expected to announce the One (W8) for Windows on...
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How wearables are driving the rethinking of notifications
Above: Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch. Image Credit: Motorola NOTE: GrowthBeat — VentureBeat’s provocative new marketing-tech event — is next week! We’ve gathered the best and brightest to explore the...
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Android usage is higher than iOS for first time in history
What is used more? Android or iOS? This type of question will make a fanboy’s blood boil if their respective mobile operating system is not in the lead. Today, it is iOS’ turn to take the back seat as...
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Facebook For Windows Phone Now Supports Video Uploads, Integrates With Messenger
Today Microsoft announced it published a new version of Facebook for Windows Phone that adds video uploads and integration with Facebook Messenger, as well as new languages. Facebook will now link...
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Facebook for Windows Phone Overhauled
A “major update” for Facebook for Windows Phone was announced by Microsoft Monday, and the updated application includes support for the recently released Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone. (more…)...
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Facebook for Windows Phone gets a major update
Though iOS and Android are the predominant homes for Facebook on mobile, the Windows Phone is also a force for mobile users. On Monday, the Windows Phone app got a facelift. This update brings into...
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Swarm Lands On Windows Phone
As Foursquare powers through its summer of change, the company is today launching Swarm on the Windows Phone platform. Swarm is the breakaway app from Foursquare that now houses the beloved check-in....
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Analytics Now Available for App Links
Facebook announced a flurry of news related to its App Links open, cross-platform solution for application-to-app linking, which it initially debuted at its F8 global developer conference in San...
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Android comes up on iOS in the US in latest Kantar report
Android has gained some ground in the US according to the latest report from consumer analytics firm Kantar Worldpanel. According to the latest metrics, Android has gained over 11 points of market...
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Facebook to Roll Out New App Registration Flow
Facebook took a step forward in its efforts to ease the process for developers seeking to integrate their applications with the social network, announcing the rollout “over the next few weeks” of a new...
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5 Can’t-Miss Apps for Football Fans: ‘NFL Showdown’ and More
With football season officially getting underway this week, it’s time for NFL die-hards to kick things into high gear. However, even the most intense fans may have trouble keeping up with it all:...
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Flipboard kind of launches a Windows Phone app (update)
Image Credit: Flipboard/Twitter Updated at 2:15 p.m. PST with more information from Flipboard about the current app listing in the Windows Phone store. Updated at 4:04 p.m. with a statement from...
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Microsoft’s New Windows 8.1 App, AutoTag ‘n Search My Photos, Leans on Tagged...
A quiet entry into the area of photo tagging was made over the weekend by none other than Microsoft, as VentureBeat discovered new Windows 8.1 application AutoTag ‘n Search My Photos, which is not...
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3Q EARNINGS: Mark Zuckerberg’s Plans for the Next Three, Five, 10 Years
What are Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for the company over the next three, five and 10 years? He went into great detail on those plans during the social network’s third-quarter...
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Microsoft now lets Windows Phone developers swap ad networks
Above: If first ad network doesn't have ads, go to the second...Image Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoft is today announcing an “ad mediation” solution to give Windows Phone developers a better chance of...
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Microsoft’s Office updates are great news for Android and iOS, but hurt...
Microsoft made multiple massive announcements for its Office suite this week. The big focus was Android and iOS, however, not the company’s own operating systems. Here’s a quick recap: Creating and...
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HTC One M8 still tastes great in Windows flavor
A good Windows Phone is hard to find. Actually, scratch that — a good Windows Phone that doesn’t also happen to have a big Nokia logo on the back is hard to find. The mobile operating system has...
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New devices help iOS steal back enterprise share from Android; breakdown is...
Image Credit: Syda Productions/ShutterstockApple has managed to reverse a recent trend of declining quarterly enterprise share for device activations, thanks to its new smartphones. The breakdown for...
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Microsoft aims to offer Windows 10 upgrades for all Windows Phone 8 Lumias,...
Image Credit: NokiaNews suggesting that Microsoft plans to offer Windows 10 upgrades for all its Windows Phone 8 devices broke today. That would mean any Lumia smartphone that runs Windows Phone 8.x...
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