New Design of Windows Phone 8.1 Action Center Seen in Screenshots from Microsoft Email The new design of the Notification Center of Windows Phone 8.1 can be seen in screenshots. These screenshots were first published on the Winphollowers site. Now the Notification Centre is called Action Center. As was pointed out, the screenshots came from a confidential Microsoft email. They...
App developers are staying loyal to Windows Phone with more and more apps, Microsoft help for marketing appreciated App developers are devoting a lot of attention to Windows Phone. Now the Android and iOS platforms are considered the leading ones. App developers for Windows Phone are following behind. The number of developers converted to Windows Phone is growing. Microsoft announced...
Foursquare Gets Investment by Microsoft, Microsoft Gets a Lot of Data in Return Foursquare is a location based social network. Microsoft recently invested a hefty amount into it. The money amounted to 15 million dollars. In addition, the company also signed a data contract for a number of years. The data is expected to come in handy in the Bing...
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by Phones Review · Published 01/31/2014
IT Specialists in the UK in Business and Government Areas Increasingly Using Windows Phone Rather than BlackBerrys IT specialists in the UK in the business and government fields are planning to abandon their BlackBerry devices and to use Windows Phone ones. That became clear as the UK Computerweekly interviewed IT specialists who shared their plans and explained the reasons. Andrew...
Patent Protection Ensured for Google with Motorola Mobility Sale, Cooperation with Samsung Means Tough Competition for Microsoft and Apple Patent protection is an important rule for the leaders on the smartphone market. On January 29 Google announced Motorola Mobility sale to Lenovo. The amount of the sale was $2.91 billion. Those who think that was a loss, considering the original...
BlackBerry OS 10.2.1 starts rolling out, brings many improvements and changes BlackBerry presented yesterday a new software update to its mobile platform. BlackBerry OS updates to 10.2.1 and the new version promises to be far more productive than ever. All new changes and refinements might finally return the mobile OS on track and make the platform really competitive giving the...
How to reduce the data usage on your iPhone A survey from 2013 reveals that the iPhones are using more data than any other smartphone. Conducted in Europe, the survey discovers that Apple iPhone 5s users (and iPhone users in general) are using a lot more data than any other flagship model and most of the people need to upgrade...
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by Phones Review · Published 01/23/2014
Samsung denies any correlation between the KitKat update and the reported incompatibility of the third-party accessory for Note 3 Yesterday we reported that due to Samsung’s new policy that prevents non-official accessories to work on Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the Spigen S-View cover no longer work with the handset once updated to KitKat. In all, this will happen to all...
Mobile Malware Preferred Android Users Last Year, with 99 Percent of All Mobile Malware Preying on Android Mobile malware is a pesky hassle. Cisco’s annual security report which can be found here gives some statistics on that. According to it, last year 99 percent of all the mobile malware around targeted Android devices. The most vulnerable to it were Android...
The Android 4.4 KitKat update on the phablet seems to disable all third-party cases completely If you remember, recently Samsung initiated a new policy that would allow only officially certified accessories to work on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as well as future devices. In all, if an accessory doesn’t include the official Samsung identification chip, it won’t work on...
