Next week Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil the first handset(s) running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform, and today comes news about the apps they hope will lure in more users to buy them. AppCampus, an $23 million (€18 million) JV between Microsoft, Nokia and Aalto University in Finland, first announced in May, to foster more app development on the platform, said it has doled out the first $1 million-plus of their budget on 36 developers out of a total of 900 submissions, an average of $30,000 per app, although individual investments over the course of the JV will be between $25,000 and $88,000.Pekka Sivonen, Head of AppCampus, tells me the apps are expected to be coming out starting in October, and will run exclusively on Windows Phone and "other Nokia platforms" for their first six months -- potentially touching some 500 million devices out in the market today. read more..
Friday, 31 August 2012
Aalto University In Finland-Windows Phone-Microsoft-Incubator-Nokia
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Windows Phone-Microsoft
The past few years haven't been kind to Microsoft. (There's no need to walk down memory lane. We all know what's happened.) But somehow that's all changed in the past few days. Surface and Windows Phone 8, along with Windows 8 and Xbox prove there's still some fight left in the old dog. It's a bit premature to say that the company is back and that the decades long string of mediocrity coming out of Redmond is over but the company is clearly focused and we haven't seen that Microsoft in a long, long time. read more..
Monday, 27 February 2012
Executive Vice President-Mobile Devices-Windows Phone-Nokia
And there we have it! Nokia's Executive Vice President of Mobile Devices has just taken the stage again here at Nokia's MWC press conference to officially unveil their new entry-level Lumia 610 smartphone. read more..
Mobile World Congress-Htc
In Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, Taiwanese handset maker HTC yesterday gave us a glimpse of its new, lean-and-mean smartphone strategy, HTC One -- a unified set of Android devices complete with features and services that it hopes will help bring it back into the thick of things.One thing that was very absent, though, was the M word. read more..
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Initial Public Offering-Fourth Quarter-Windows Phone-Facebook Ipo-Social Media
Hot topics in the tech blogs for the week ending February 3 include Facebook filing for its initial public offering, Facebook facts and figures, a preview of Windows Phone 8, Amazon’s fourth quarter report, and a leaked picture of RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Superphone. read more..
5 iPhone Twitter Apps that Do More Than Just Tweet
Leo Widrich is the co-founder of Buffer, a new way to publish tweets and Facebook posts at better times for more impact. He writes more about social media tips and tools on the Buffer blog. Follow him on Twitter @LeoWid or subscribe to his Facebook updates. read more..
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum-Advertising Agency
Microsoft and its advertising agency have reached a settlement with a company that accused them of copying its ads in a Windows Phone campaign ("Really?") lampooning society’s obsession with smartphones. read more..
Did Twitter Predict the Iowa Caucus Better Than Pundits?
In the closest Iowa caucus the nation has ever witnessed, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney edged out former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum by only 8 votes. That's not 8% of votes, it's just 8 actual votes. No pundit could have predicted such a neck-and-neck finish. read more..
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Windows Phones for angry Android users
Microsoft is taking an innovative, if somewhat underhanded, approach to promoting its Windows Phone: It's offering a free device to Android customers who've been victims of malware and want an escape.read more..