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Austrian buyers of the Windows Phone 7 will get Xbox 360 free of charge

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Austrian residents have received an offer that would certainly tempt them. A free gaming console Xbox 360 will accompany each purchase of any Windows Phone 7 device. The handset had to be bought through Austrian career A1 on the day of the European launch of the platform, October 21st. the Xbox is the entry-level, Arcade [...]

Symbian CEO’s resignation effective immediately

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Symbian CEO Lee Williams has resigned his position as an Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation and his resignation is effective immediately. Williams only gave personal reasons for his departure and will be replaced by the CFO of the Foundation, Tim Holbrow. Multiple blows have affected Symbian recently and some of its main proponents at [...]

Bug Labs and AT&T in partnership on ready-to-run modules

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

AT&T and Bug Labs just announced to be partners in a project that is meant to allow developers to buy network ready BUGmodules with AT&T certification. They are supposed to work out of the box on the network of AT&T once developers will put the devices together. The first Connection Kit of AT&T, named BUG [...]

Android now more profitable than iPhone in ad industry

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

According to a Millenial Media report, Android is now more profitable than the iPhone at least on one ad network. The report says that Android has generated more revenue than its rival, with a 26 percent boost to requests for ads and a jump in traffic to 29 percent, which pushed it past the iPhone [...]

Sony Ericsson falls down to 10.4 million phones, still in profit

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

Sony Ericsson has declared to be in profit even if its market share went on dropping. It shipped 10.4 million phones, while it had shipped 14.1 million a year earlier. However, the company had about $69 million in profit where twelve months ago it had lost $231 million. More than half of Sony Ericsson’s phone [...]

2011 Windows Phone 7 plans confirmed by Sony Ericsson

Published on: 21st October, 2010

Bert Nordberg, Sony Ericsson CEO, during a conference call for investors, said that his company was intending to bring out Windows Phone 7 devices to its offer starting next year. This was a confirmation that the company would move from the Symbian operating system on which it had relied for a long time, to equip [...]

Microsoft prepares Zune for Mac to synchronize Windows Phone 7

Published on: 18th October, 2010

In a Twitter update, the Windows Phone marketing lead in the United Kingdom, Oded Ran, claimed that there would be a Zune client available for the Mac to synchronize Windows Phone 7 devices. The executive did not go into details but said that customers could Zune on the Mac to synchronize the phones. He also [...]

BlackBerry deadline pushed to 31st of January by the Indian government

Published on: 16th October, 2010

According to the Economic Times newspaper, the Indian government has prolonged the October 31st ban deadline of Research in Motion to January 31st. the arrangement has offered RIM as additional 90-day long interval of time to give the security forces of India suitable access to its Enterprise data services. Research in Motion has already made [...]

Yahoo Messenger on iPhone will have 3G video chat

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Yahoo has posted the expected update 2.0 of Yahoo Messenger, free on the App Store, adding two-way video chat. This is one of the first iOS applications that support two-way video chat through 3G. It gives owners of the fourth generation iPod touch and of the iPhone a chatting option by using the front or [...]

SFR unwillingly confirms Palm Pre 2 equipped with 1GHz chip

Published on: 16th October, 2010

French carrier SFR unwillingly revealed Hewlett Packard’s smartphone plans with a page dedicated to its Palm Pre 2. According to the promo, speed is the strongest feature with a 1GHz processor (previously 500MHz) and the same 512MB of RAM as its predecessor the Pre Plus. The device will ship with webOS 2.0 and will mainly [...]

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