Tag Archives : Windows Mobile

Skype yesterday announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Qik, a provider of mobile video software and services that enable users to capture, preserve and instantly share great moments on video anywhere. Qik has 60 employees and is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an office in Moscow, Russia. The transaction should [...]

The new Microsoft operating system for smartphones, Windows Phone 7, posted late this year just over 5000 games and applications available on its online store. According to the site WP7applist, last month the number of applications on Windows Marketplace Phone arrived in 3000, up by more than 15,000 registered developers. Today there are over 18 000 [...]

Businesses should support a variety of mobile platforms, as long as they provided focus and their efforts on the IOS operating systems (iPhone), Blackberry and Android, says research firm Forrester. The three are among the four systems more compatible with the standards of the corporate market, evidenced by the study “Mobile Operating System [...]

Mozilla has said that the Fennec, the Firefox version for mobile phones, is “a few days” the launch of its first official release. In a BBC interview, the vice president of mobile for Mozilla, Jay Sullivan, said the mobile browser is undergoing final tests and can be launched before the end of the year. The Fennec initially operates only [...]

At the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie spoke to a group of professional tech bloggers where he has stated that the current boom in mobile phone applications is overrated and that such applications are not going to be a differentiating factor when it comes to smart phones. According to Mr. Ozzie, the mobile phone applications [...]

Microsoft didn’t allow its users to get very used to the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system which hit the market last year before news of a new version started making the rounds. Windows Mobile 6.5 finally made it to mobiles only last month and there has been frantic news about how cool (or not) the update was; one of the reasons that it made the [...]

The phenomenal success of Apple iPhone coupled with the growing enthusiasm and demand for Google Android 2.0 mobile operating system, the Windows Mobiles platform might be well on its way to obscurity. The launch of the Apple iPhone 3GS and Motorola Droid has captivated the imagination and attention of mobile phone enthusiasts all over the world, leading [...]

Google announced its new product Google Maps Navigation will provide navigation instructions in real time directly to phones that operate with the new version of its Android software. The navigation product, which offers voice recognition and screen guidance that incorporates the online archive of photographs of street Google represents a further step [...]

Even with 100% efforts, Microsoft has still not been able to catch up with the other leading mobile phone manufacturers and it seems that this fact is, really irritating the upper echelons of Microsoft management. In an attempt to revitalize its mobile platform, Windows Mobile, Microsoft it seems has revamped and renamed its mobile services to Windows [...]

If you believed in the rumors concerning that Motorola Q Series would be obliterated from the market, then you are wrong. Verizon Wireless has made a formal announcement that it will be re- releasing the Motorola Q9c. The features are the same except that the re-release brings the company’s TALKS features to the phone. The TALKS for Verizon is especially [...]