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One of the major interface changes that Microsoft will include in Windows 8 compared to the previous versions of its desktop platform is the lack of Aero Glass. The company introduced this UI in Windows Vista and refined it in Windows 7 and in the first versions of Windows 8, but it will no longer pack it inside th... |
22 May 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Sony is not in the best of shapes at the moment and needs to deal with an impressive loss of more than 2 billion dollars (1.52 billion Euro) for the fiscal quarter that ended on December 31 of 2011 and one its leading executives believes that the company needs to turn things around quickly.Speaking about his new role... |
4 February 2012
03:13 GMT |
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In case there were any doubts, the next major iteration of Windows is still very much a work in progress. This applies to all aspects of the operating system, including, or especially, the core user experience.
In mid-September 2011 at BUILD, Microsoft released Windows Developer Preview, an early development mil... |
4 October 2011
03:05 GMT |
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Apparently, Windows Phone is indeed capable of turning heads, especially when those who encounter it have had bad experiences with their previous smartphones and the mobile operating system running on them. What Android and iOS lack when it comes to impressing users, Windows Phone gains, thus managing to offer an ov... |
18 August 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7 is already about one year old, and phone users fond of Microsoft's mobile operating system are looking forward for the next flavor of the platform, supposedly set to land next year, along with a new Windows client for desktop.Most probably called Windows Phone 8, the next platform release promis... |
17 August 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Last fall, when Microsoft launched the brand new Windows Phone platform, they promised a change from the way in which we would use our cell phones.
Those who are already in love with their current handsets, regardless of the OS they are running under, will certainly not feel the urge to switch to Windows Phone. ... |
25 July 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Twitter is loved by those who use it, the service has got a very loyal core user base. It's quite a large one at that, there are some 200 million people using Twitter every month. And the most active users feel part of a very tight group.
The problem is that, everyone else feels excluded and the quirks, habi... |
6 July 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation seems set to add its own touch to the operating systems it uses for its devices, and Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 platform is no exception. Although Microsoft announced officially that the mobile operating system won't allow for too many OEM or carrier custom... |
27 December 2010
04:00 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is hard at work with the release of a series of enhancements to the Android Market experience that both users and developers receive.
The Android Market client was updated on Friday, and should be delivered to all users of handsets that are based on Android 1.6 or higher... |
11 December 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Nokia still has to announce officially a device running under the new MeeGo operating system, but it seems that the company is confident that it would manage to make a splash when that handset arrives on shelves.The smartphone market is still a nascent space, even if it enjoys increased attention from media and hand... |
8 December 2010
11:59 GMT |
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Today, Google launched officially the latest version of its mobile operating system, namely Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Unveiled along with a new mobile phone, the Nexus S by Samsung, the new OS version brings forth a wide range of enhancements when compared to the previous iterations.Among the main improvements in And... |
6 December 2010
16:17 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T was a little late to the Android party with the release of Motorola Backflip on its airwaves earlier this year, but still managed to impress the Android community. However, not everybody was impressed in the best possible way, that's for sure, especially when learning that the carrier ... |
3 July 2010
11:21 GMT |
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The owners of a Nokia handset can now try out a new software solution the Finnish mobile phone maker has recently made available for them. We're talking about Nokia Software Updater, which was released on Wednesday in a new a beta version, namely 3.0.72, with a wide range of enhancements on the user experience ... |
1 July 2010
04:03 GMT |
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Only a couple of months after the merger of Maemo and Moblin into a new operating system, MeeGo, the first release of the new platform is available. The release of MeeGo v1.0 is set to offer developers a core foundation for the building of applications that will target mainly netbooks, though MeeGo v1.0 core softwar... |
27 May 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Microsoft’s User Experience ecosystem is a universe complex enough for an overall perspective or deep insights to not easily come in handy. The Redmond company has worked to streamline efforts from what it calls technical and creative leads interested in taking a closer look at the relation between its UX colla... |
15 March 2010
05:00 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T has recently launched its first handset powered by Google's Android operating system, the Motorola Backflip, a device that comes with a unique form factor, with its QWERTY keyboard that flips in reverse, and which is now reportedly limiting the experience that the Android OS can offer.... |
9 March 2010
07:00 GMT |
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When unveiling officially the new Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft managed to rise more questions than those which have been answered, and some of them are still there, waiting for the MIX10 conference in mid-March to kick off to be answered. And since the event is several weeks ahead, and there are some not willin... |
18 February 2010
06:15 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced on Tuesday the inclusion of a series of improvements to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the software solutions portal where Windows Phone users can download applications for their handsets. The app store, as most of you might already know, can be accessed by all o... |
17 February 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who are fond of making searches using one of the most popular search engines on the market today, namely Google, are now able to enjoy a series of enhancements the company has just made to the appearance of the service. Google Search for mobile, accessible via a web browser from an Android or iPho... |
12 February 2010
02:44 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just unveiled a few more details on what its own smartphone operating system, called bada, is all about. According to the company, the mobile platform can deliver a distinctive user experience through the addition of the latest flavor of TouchWiz on top of it. TouchWiz has... |
1 February 2010
08:37 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has announced on Wednesday the release of an updated version of its Bing app for Windows phones. The launch comes hot on the heels of the recently performed updates to the Bing search engine, as well as to the Bing Maps, which came with a series of improvements both for mobile ... |
3 December 2009
02:39 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is hard at work with the development of the future iteration of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7, yet it chooses to remain silent on the novelties that one should expect for the upcoming platform version to include. However, various details on the OS emerged alread... |
2 December 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft released the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, namely Windows Mobile 6.5, at the beginning of October. The platform in itself has seen a fair amount of bad reviews, yet it seems that the iteration should be seen only as a minor update to the platform, with a major u... |
24 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft seems ready to add some more features to its future Windows Mobile 7 operating system in its quest to making the platform much more user friendly. It seems that the upcoming platform flavor and Xbox Live will be joined, something that has been rumored a few times before and now ... |
22 October 2009
07:15 GMT |
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Delivering a unitary user experience across Windows 7 is a detail that’s virtually out of Microsoft’s hands. While providing the operating system, the Redmond-based company has no control over the look and feel of the applications designed to run on top of the Windows client. However, the software giant i... |
14 September 2009
07:46 GMT |
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Redmond-based software company Microsoft has already unveiled to the world its plans to transform its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile, into a more attractive platform, both by making it more user-friendly, and by adding more features and more services into the equation. There are at least two future flavors o... |
18 July 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Leading mobile phone maker Motorola, Inc. has recently announced that it has managed to ink a commercial W-CDMA contract with China United Network Communications Corporation Ltd. (China Unicom), the largest telecom operator in China. According to Motorola, the new deal marks a significant milestone for Motorola on Ch... |
25 April 2009
05:41 GMT |
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HP announced today that it intended to support the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system on its future smartphone devices, so as to continue its efforts to provide users with the latest wireless technologies designed for the broad mobile professional markets. The Windows Mobile 6.5 OS on the company's s... |
16 February 2009
10:12 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress new panels for its Xperia X1, meant to offer consumers new ways to personalize the content of their devices. Last week, the mobile phone maker announced other panels as well, and the new additions should enhance even more the user experience on the Xperia X1 t... |
16 February 2009
08:36 GMT |
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Windows 7 will undoubtedly take the graphical user interface and the interaction model to the next level not only as far as the Windows client is concerned, but also in terms of the content designed to integrate seamlessly with the operating system. Previews of what Windows client applications will look and feel like... |
11 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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