Microsoft today announced that the Zune Music Marketplace and Zune Music Pass will launch in Canada on October 3rd with some 14 million songs to choose from. The Zune Music Pass will cost CA$9.99 per month or CA$99.90 annually and will work with the Xbox 360, Windows Phone, Windows PC, Zune devices and Zune.net. It will also include the ability […]
Microsoft
Microsoft and Samsung cross-license patent portfolios
Microsoft and Samsung today announced a new agreement that will see the two companies cross-license their patent portfolios. Microsoft seems to have the upper hand in the deal though as the agreement also sees Samsung paying it royalties for smartphones and tablets running Google Android. Samsung also agreed to cooperate in the development and marketing of Windows Phone. “Microsoft and […]
Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 deployment begins
Microsoft today began to deploy Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as Mango) to existing users. Its Windows Phone “Where’s My Update?” pages (US, rest of world) are now that the deployment is now in the ‘Scheduling’ phase for many carriers (including all in Canada and all but Sprint in the US) and countries. The Scheduling phase precedes the actual delivery […]
AT&T Windows Phone Mango updates to start next week?
Microsoft was not joking when it said that the Windows Phone Mango update was coming in “the next week or two.” Some internal emails obtained by WPCentral.com suggest that AT&T will begin pushing it out to its customers as early as next week. The roll-out schedule depends on the device though. First up will be the HTC Surround and the […]
Windows Phone Mango update coming in “the next week or two”
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile team today provided an update on the timing of the Mango update for current Windows Phone devices. With the good news comes a warning: During the official Windows Phone 7.5 update process, every Windows Phone will also receive software from the handset manufacturer. This matched and paired firmware has been painstakingly tuned so your phone—and apps—work with […]
Microsoft employee outsted over Nokia WP7 tweets?
A few tweets about Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone handset by a Microsoft employee appear to have cost him his job. Joe Marini, a principal program manager for the Windows Phone team, posted a number of tweets about the device about two weeks ago. Among them is this one: I just got a chance to try out one of the slickest […]
Microsoft previews Windows 8 at BUILD conference
As expected, Microsoft today showed off the an early version of the next major release of Windows, codenamed “Windows 8.” There are plenty of new features in the new OS. The most important one may well that this single platform will work on PCs as well as tablets, delivering a consistent experience no matter what device you are using (and […]
Forward-facing cameras confirmed for Windows Phone Mango
When Microsoft teased us with four new Windows Phone Mango devices back in July, one of the devices (the Samsung SGH-i937?) appeared to sport a front-facing camera despite there not being any confirmed support for such a feature in the latest Windows Phone specification. It is now confirmed that Mango will support forward-facing cameras: Nice, they just confirmed at TechEd […]