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New Surface Pro 3 commercial sticks the landing

Although I do like all the old dancing ads for the original Surface Pro and Pro 2, they really did not tell people much about the devices. And the Scroogle campaign launched by Microsoft is just out-right bad. Well, Steve Balmer is a brilliant CEO, but he and his marketing team has made some terrible choice […]

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Microsoft plans to update Cortana twice a month

Although with all the praise that Cortana gets from reviewers, there is no denying that she is still in Beta mode. Weak voice recognition and result data base make her a bit immature, even know it is available for the US, and will soon roll out for the UK and other English-speaking regions (and China […]

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Schedule for Cyan Update leaked

    Although I enjoy Windows Phone 8.1 on my phone, it’s just the developer preview version, and no where near finish. There are still numerous update to fix bugs and lag that still exist, and although the overall looks to be ready, there was no official schedule of when will Nokia release Windows Phone […]

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Microsoft shows off new hardware from Blu, Prestigio and Yezz

Today, Microsoft’s Nick Parker (a Microsoft executive) came to Computex 2014 (at Taiwan) to announce some new hardware that from new partner that was announced at Build 2014 in the beginning of April. The new partners that came out with new Smartphone that is running Windows Phone 8.1 are Blu, Pretigio and Yezz. First off, for […]

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Microsoft and HTC are preparing some “new things”

  During the past year, Microsoft and HTC didn’t have the best relationship. On one hand, the growth of Windows Phone in sales and even in the maturity of the platform itself is too slow for a company that has almost all of their phone run Android; on the other hand, HTC did not do […]

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Copy and Paste, does it matter?

As we saw yesterday, Apple introduces the iOS 8, and in the beginning of April, Microsoft reveals to the world Windows Phone 8.1, and you know what they have in common? They both were playing catch up with Android by adding features that the big green Droid already have, but does it matter much that any of […]

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Windows Phone 8.1 Preview Update 12393

At 1 PM ET, Microsoft releases a new update for Windows Phone 8.1. But changes are minimal. The second update, the first one came in May and that was just an improvement in battery life. This update feature was unclear, but some report shows a change in boot screen Icon, and take Quite Hours from Cortana and […]

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BBM is coming to Windows Phone 8

  Well, we all see the success of WhatsApp, got bought for $19 billion and still making about $49 per user (500 million active users monthly). Instant message apps are a booming business, and that was why less than a year ago, John Chen opened up the BBM service to other platforms other than its […]

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Nokia Lumia 635 is coming to the US in the next couple weeks

Well, enjoy the Nokia brand while it last, because I doubt beside the 930, there won’t be a next Nokia device. Well, remember the Lumia 635 announces last month along with Windows Phone 8.1? If you don’t, I don’t blame you, it’s not a memorable phone, it’s not flagship spec, nor it is a beautiful […]

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Windows Phone 8.1 official file manager is here

  It is kind of cool how Microsoft is committing to the whole new apps ecosystem for Windows Phone 8.1. The past few weeks, we have seen leaks of a file manager type that apparently is going to be in Windows Phone 8.1 update, well, those were somewhat the truth.  Today, Microsoft releases an app called […]