Articles tagged with: Samsung and Microsoft

Microsoft Planning $44 Million Ad Campaign to Support WP7 Smartphones in the UK

­Microsoft is reportedly preparing to sink £28 million (US$44 million) into co-branded advertising campaigns to support sales of Windows Phone based handsets from Nokia and samsung in the run up to the end of year holiday season.  more

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Microsoft Earning More Money from Android - Signs Samsung Licensing Deal

­Microsoft has increased its revenues from the Android OS after it signed a patent licensing agreement with samsung.  more

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Microsoft Seeking $15 Per Handset from Samsung for Android Patents

­Microsoft is reported to be seeking royalties of US$15 per handset from samsung in a licensing deal covering patents its says are being used in the Android OS.  more

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Windows Phone 7 OS Upgrade Starts Appearing in Handsets

­Microsoft has started sending out its first substantial OS upgrade for the Windows Phone 7 platform - which finally includes the much-hyped copy/paste capability. The upgrade, nicknamed NoDo was due to go out in January, then pushed back to March, and then delayed again to the end of the month.  more

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Nokia's Smartphone Recovery Begins While Samsung Growth Continues

­Strategy Analytics analysis of the US smartphone market shows that with Microsoft's assistance, Nokia can be expected to recover its recent market share losses. samsung will make even stronger market share gains.  more

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Microsoft Confirms it is Delaying the Windows Phone 7 OS Upgrade

­Microsoft has confirmed rumours and will be delaying the release of a long-awaited OS upgrade for its Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform, as it irons out any final bugs in the system. more

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Microsoft Resumes Stalled OS Upgrades for Windows Phone 7 Smartphones

­Microsoft says that it has identified the problem with a recent small OS upgrade to Windows Phone 7 smartphones that resulted in the phones turning into overpriced paperweights as they ceased to work. The company said that less than 10% of handsets running the OS were affected by the problem - and it is understood that the bulk of the problems were limited to samsung phones.  more

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Windows Phone OS Patch Crashes Samsung Phones

­Microsoft has stopped sending out a small OS upgrade to Windows Phone 7 users, after it started making some handsets unusable after the upgrade was applied. The problem seems to primarily affect samsung phones, but the company has stopped the OS upgrades until it can be sure what is causing the problem.  more

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Copy/Paste for Windows Phone 7 Spotting in the Wild

When the Windows Phone 7 operating system was released, it like early versions of Apple's iPhone, lacked the basic copy/paste command. It is now being rumoured that the promised upgrade to the OS to support copy/paste is already being pushed out to developer handsets.  more

Related Tags: windows-phone-7, os, windows-phone


Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech

This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli.  more

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