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Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 7 Updates for Next week
After a few bumps in the road for the Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has announced that the long-awaited updates will be rolled out next week. Microsoft posted the list of updates on its website which will include the copy and paste feature which allows users to just tap a word from emails, Microsoft mobile documents…
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Microsoft Suing Barnes & Noble, Foxconn Over Patents
The Microsoft Corporation is taking legal action against Barnes &Noble, Foxconn and Inventec for patent infringement by their Android devices. The patents causing the problem are “a range of functionality embodied in Android devices that are essential to the user experience,” such as the ability to tap through different screens and the interaction of documents,…
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Android Phone Faster at Loading Webpages than iPhone 4
The latest Android smartphone loaded webpages 52 percent faster than the iPhone 4 which uses iOS 4.3, according to Blaze, a mobile website optimization company. After conducting 45,000 load tests of Fortune 1000 websites using Wi-Fi and 3G; it was found that the Android 2.3 device, a Samsung Nexus smartphone using Chrome loaded pages in…
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Android OS Beats Out Apple and RIM in US
According to Nielsen data, the Android OS now has the largest market share of smartphone platforms in the US. PCmag reports that the aim of the study which surveyed out of 14,701 Americans was not so much to provide comprehensive sales figures about mobile OS, but to find out where the “hearts and the minds”…