Windows Phone 7 dials up success

Boston Herald - Jessica Van Sack - 14 Jun, 2011
Windows Phone 7, where have you been all my life? Or at least for the past five years, and a struggle between moderate satisfaction with Blackberrys and the constant lure of an iPhone. I've tested the HTC Trophy, ...

V3.co.uk readers rush to defend Windows Phone 7 platform

V3.co.uk - Dan Worth - 14 Jun, 2011
The CIO of the council, David Wilde, told V3.co.uk last week that up to 250 members of staff are using devices running on the OS as it offers several key benefits over other smartphones, including the iPhone. Numerous readers praised this ...

Windows Phones To Surpass iPhone By 2015? Only With Price Cuts

ITProPortal - Desire Athow - 14 Jun, 2011
The outfit suggests that Google's platform would have nearly 44 per cent of the market with Windows Phone at 20.3 percent and iOS lagging behind with 16.9 per cent. Apparently, the rest of the market, nearly a fifth, would be occupied by the likes of ...

Nokia's New Smartphone Strategy Fails To Impress Market Watchers

PSFK - Dory Carr-Harris - 14 Jun, 2011
Nokia's chief executive Stephen Elop left the stage quickly after his speech last week, when he set out how the Finnish mobile phone company planned to build the “third ecosystem” in the fast-growing smartphone ...

Nokia will push Windows Phone ahead of Apple iOS and BlackBerry by 2015

NokNok.tv - Martin James - 14 Jun, 2011
Analyst firm IDC has repeated its prediction that teaming up with Nokia could push Windows Phone ahead of both Apple's iOS and BlackBerry by the year 2015. The firm's latest research note suggests Windows Phone 7 will ...

Nokia has no Plan B post Windows Phone 7

Ubergizmo - Edwin Kee - 14 Jun, 2011
The impossible has already happened, so we are surprised to hear that Nokia, once the bastion of innovation with their smart and intuitive featurephones (back in the days where you required a rocket science degree to ...

Did Apple's iOS 5 mimic some features of Windows Phone 7?

InformationWeek India - 14 Jun, 2011
Apple recently announced iOS 5. While several of its updated features may be new to iPhone users, many of them have been on Windows Phone 7 from day one. Several have been available on Microsoft products longer than that. It was enough for Microsoft VP ...

IDC Just Can't Stop Predicting Good Things for Windows Phone 7

Redmond Channel Partner (blog) - 14 Jun, 2011
There is hardly a more tangled web anywhere in business than the one that industry analysts weave in the technology market. Yes, they're smart. (Well, most of them are, anyway. We won't tell you which ones probably aren't.) Yes, they do their research. ...

IDC: WinPho 7 Will Knock iOS Out of #2 Spot By 2015

TechnoBuffalo - Adriana Lee - 14 Jun, 2011
Not to spark another platform war, but I couldn't help but notice a nugget on the wires today: IDC believes Windows Phone 7 could trump iOS as the world's number two mobile platform, and that it could happen in the next four years. ...

Nokia's Real Value to Microsoft is Outside of the Phones

Network World - Andy Patrizio - 14 Jun, 2011
While both companies deny a rumored merger, Microsoft surely must be eyeing Nokia's non-phone gems. By Andy Patrizio on Mon, 06/13/11 - 6:25pm. The rumored Microsoft/Nokia merger has been, for now, debunked. But if Microsoft wants anything from Nokia, ...

iOS 5′s Fancy New Camera Trick? Microsoft Has A Patent On It

MobileCrunch - Jordan Crook - 14 Jun, 2011
At Apple's WWDC keynote last week, we finally got a sneak peek into iOS 5. Amongst other things, Apple revealed that its camera app would be getting quite the makeover. Pretty much immediately after the new camera ...

Microsoft plans one major Windows Phone update a year

The Next Web - 14 Jun, 2011
Microsoft appears poised to follow in the footsteps of Apple's iOS platform and work towards a single large yearly update to the its platform, as opposed to more the irregular updates favored by other mobile lines. This Senior Program Manager position ...

iOS 5 borrowed Windows Phone camera swipe-to-preview

IntoMobile - 14 Jun, 2011
Last week we wrote an article detailing some features iOS 5 “borrowed,” and now we have another example. The new viewfinder feature of iOS 5 allows you to see the photo you just took by simply swiping to one side from the camera viewfiner, ...

Goldman Sachs “surprised” with Windows Phone 7 momentum

The Next Web - 14 Jun, 2011
The world of Windows Phone 7 fans is afire at the moment following a juicy, and positive, quote from the banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs. Included in a report in which a Goldman analyst cut their target on the stock price of Research in Motion, ...

2 Technology Companies Struggling for Market Share

Seeking Alpha - Mark Riddix - 14 Jun, 2011
The technology sector is often discussed as a great place for investor capital because there are so many large cap companies with growth potential and lots of excess cash. The balance sheets are touted by Wall Street experts who love the exciting ...

Westminster City Council backs Windows Phone 7

V3.co.uk - Dan Worth - ‎Jun 13, 2011‎
Up to 250 employees at Westminster City Council are using Windows Phone 7 smartphones as their corporate device, V3.co.uk has learned. David Wilde, the council's chief information officer, said that 600 staff require a smartphone and can ...

Nokia has no Plan B should Windows Phone fail

Mobot.net (blog) - 14 Jun, 2011
Nokia boss Stephen Elop has almost resembled a politician running for office recently, hitting the campaign trail in a big way to tell anyone who'll listen about Nokia's particular brand of mobile politics. Part of the reason why, however, might simply ...

IDC Forecast 55% Growth for Smartphone Market in 2011

GPS Business News - 14 Jun, 2011
“The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to grow 55% year over year in 2011 as a growing number of users turn in their feature phones for more advanced devices,“ said market research firm IDC in a new report. According to its Worldwide Quarterly ...

Westminster for Windows smartphones

Telecoms News - ‎Jun 13, 2011‎
At least 250 staff from Westminster City Council use Windows Phone 7 smartphones as their primary business device. Chief information officer for the council, David Wilde, explained that 600 employees would need business mobiles " with the choices being ...

 

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