Samsung Gives Us Their Take On The Cam-Phone… … And with it TechCrunch throws an absolute wobbler and decides that this is the Lumia PureView Killer. Their title “Samsung Just Killed Nokia’s ‘True PureView’ Windows Phone And It’s Not Even Unboxed Yet” drew my attention and so I hit the link in Twitter. I didn’t need [...]
#Trending popped up yesterday… #Trending is the first unofficial Twitter Music App and it’s on Windows Phone. Amazingly the App Developer also made it Windows 7.x compliant so double hat-tip from me. #Trending comes in the usual two App flavors, paid and free. So far I’ve been using the free version. I had read it doesn’t [...]
Windows Phone… Mine is a Windows Phone 7 and I have been wrestling with this post for over a week. Over the last weeks I have seen some amazing new Apps appear on the Windows Store only to see they were all exclusively for Windows Phone 8. It’s not so much denying me these apps [...]
Twitter Goes All Medieval on the Tweetdeck Product Line Last week Twitter, the owners of Tweetdeck posted on their blog about the discontinuation of several versions of Tweetdeck. The thrust of the article is that old technology is going the way of the dinosaur and the focus is going to be on better web experience. What [...]
Moleskine … For quite a few years I have kept a stock of Moleskine notebooks in different sizes as my go-to notes, sketch and idea keeper. For someone who the generic yellow A4 legal pad doesn’t quite do it or if you enjoy the discussion it prompts when you pull out your Moleskine notebook in a [...]
Google Lashes Out Again At Windows Phone… ..Shutting down Windows Phone access to Google Maps. Eventually having been called on this they recanted and claim that Windows Phone Users will once again be allowed access to Google Maps. You can read all about the background to this and some interesting claims made by Google via TheNextWeb [...]
Google’s Official Blog called it Winter Cleaning… Goodbye Google Sync service for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. The Google Sync news In a nutshell: Google Sync is gone replaced by CardDAV Consumers ability to sync from their Gmail, GCal, Contacts to their new Windows Phone 8 is gone Existing Google Sync connections will remain active: I’m skeptical [...]
October is here and with it the impending launch of the Windows 8 Ecosystem; the primary elements of which are Windows 8 OS, The Surface (and other Windows 8 Tablets, RT and Pro) and Windows Phone 8. Image courtesy of Microsoft Word Clipart Collection We have already had the teasers from Nokia and HTC with [...]
Windows Phone 8 As I finish editing this post ZDNet were hosting an online debate “Did Microsoft throw users under the bus?” Acceptable hyperbole perhaps but I’m not so sure if it’s right. Windows Phone 8 is not just about the OS and not just about hardware. It’s not even just about the phone itself; [...]
Blood on the water? The dust from Apple WWDC is only starting to settle and many a startup who had an App for iOS is discovering that the announcements yesterday may have made their contribution to the App Store redundant. One example of this that everyone in my twitter feed cited is the marvelous Waze [...]
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