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Why a Q4 iPhone 5 Release is a Strategic Win for Apple

Monday, June 20, 2011

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The final quarter of 2011 is all set to play host to the greatest smartphone showdown we’ve seen yet. Apple’s decision to delay the new iPhone until around the beginning of September – for announcement at least – ensures it’s going to do battle with not one but two of its competitors. The first is Google, [...]

Should Apple Lose ‘App Store’ Trademark? Microsoft Challenge it in Europe

Friday, May 13, 2011

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Should Apple Lose ‘App Store’ Trademark? Microsoft Challenge it in Europe

Although taking each other to court seems to be many tech company’s favorite pastime, this latest trip could result in a slightly more interesting conclusion than ‘fine, have some money to go away’. Microsoft, along with Nokia, HTC and Sony Ericsson have challenged Apple’s trademarking of the phrase ‘App Store’ in Europe. Microsoft have been down this [...]

Microsoft Return to the Smartphone Fray with Windows Phone 7. Will You be Switching?

Monday, October 11, 2010

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Microsoft Return to the Smartphone Fray with Windows Phone 7. Will You be Switching?

Windows Mobile 6.5 may still exist, but it hasn’t been a challenger in the snartphone world since the advent of the touchscreen era, when the stylus became a thing of the past. Since then, Microsoft have watched from afar as Apple and Google stole the limelight, and companies such as HTC began building more phones [...]

Windows Live Messenger coming to the iPhone, expected to arrive in June

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Windows Live Messenger coming to the iPhone, expected to arrive in June

It looks like rumors of a Windows Live Messenger app coming to the iPhone were true. Well, true based on these recently released screenshots anyway. “Today we can exclusively unveil the first official screenshots of Windows Live Messenger for iPhone. The application will arrive in June alongside the rest of Windows Live Wave 4. According to [...]

Nearly 10% of Microsoft employees use iPhones

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Nearly 10% of Microsoft employees use iPhones

Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal released a comprehensive profile of iPhone usage within Apple’s rival corporation, Microsoft. Surprisingly, it was discovered that nearly 10,000 Microsoft employees (roughly 10% of the company’s employees) accessed their works e-mails via iPhone last year. Some Microsoft workers take pains to hide their iPhones. While rank-and-file workers tend to [...]

Apple, Microsoft in talks to replace Google with Bing as default iPhone search

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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Just reading the title alone that sounds pretty shocking, and is likely to get many upset with the whole Apple/Microsoft fanboy thing going on and all. I am sure many are asking, how could iPhone users be expected to use Bing as a default search engine? Well, for starters I will say that Bing search, [...]

Need a second Exchange account on your iPhone? No problem

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Well, no problem if you are jailbroken. Yup, another post where I am promoting the benefits of jailbreaking. But trust me, jailbreaking does have some benefits and one of those includes the ability to use multiple Exchange accounts. Personally I do not even use one Exchange account, but this is still a cool app to [...]

Microsoft Releases Bing iPhone App

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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Microsoft has just release an iPhone app for their Bing (free at the App Store) search engine. While the move may seem odd, it makes complete sense for Microsoft to want a mobile app presence for Bing. After all, Google’s iPhone app has been out for some time, and it offers a useful voice search [...]

iPhone Has The Attention of the Video Game Industry

Friday, October 16, 2009

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iPhone Has The Attention of the Video Game Industry

Here’s one for you- can the iPhone actually be too popular? Maybe so if you happen to run a company that sells video games. According to recent studies, there are a whopping 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch owners on planet earth and each day the number of these users turning to Apple’s [...]

Documents To Go gets an update, can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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The Documents To Go application has recently been updated and the long awaited ability to create Excel spreadsheets is now available. This release comes as version 2.0 of the app and is available as a free update for current users of both versions. For those unfamiliar with the app, it is available as Documents To Go [...]