Samsung has lost its bid to a US Judge about putting the Microsoft smartphone patent royalties suit on hold. The U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said the lawsuit would proceed despite the arbitration.
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Opera Mobile Store will replace Nokia Store as the default app store for Nokia feature phones, Symbian and Nokia X smartphones, following an agreement between Opera Software and Microsoft.
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Microsoft announced the Microsoft Band, its fitness tracker last month for $199. Along with the band the company also launched the new Microsoft Health platform. We have already seen the unboxing and photo gallery of the Microsoft Band, now lets compare it with Samsung Gear Fit that was launched in India earlier this year.
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Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Band fitness tracker for US$ 199 few weeks back. We brought you the unboxing of the Microsoft Band recently, here we have the photo gallery of the smartband. Continue reading “Microsoft Band Photo Gallery”
Microsoft has launched a new video editing app for Windows Phone. Dubbed as Movie Creator, the app which is currently in beta works only on Lumia phones and the Lumia 2520 tablet.
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Microsoft has added an array of features to Windows 10 under the build 9879. The update comes only three weeks after the Windows 10 Technical Preview got its first new build available to members of the Windows Insider program.
Microsoft has rebranded Lync with Skype for Business. The company is promising Skype for Business will remain an Office 365 service when it replaces Lync sometime “in the first half of 2015.
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Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Band, a fitness tracker for US$ 199. This is the first fitness band from Microsoft, and it works with Android and iOS devices too, in addition to Windows Phone 8.1 devices. We managed to get one from the U.S. Here is the unboxing of the Microsoft Band.
Microsoft Devices just announced the Lumia 535 and Lumia 535 Dual SIM, first smartphones under Microsoft Lumia brand. These have 5-inch qHD displays, powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor and run on Windows Phone 8.1 with Lumia Denim. These have a 5-megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with wide angle lens. Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 535 and Lumia 535 Dual SIM with 5-inch qHD display, 5MP front camera announced”
Microsoft teased the first Microsoft branded smartphone last week, which would be announced tomorrow, November 11th. WMPoweruser has got hold of the images of the dummy unit of the Lumia 535 smartphone that is expected to be announced tomorrow. Most of the specifications of the smartphone, including a 5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) display and dual SIM support and a 1905 mAh battery were already outed by TENAA listing, now the website has detailed specifications of the smartphone. Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 535 surfaces ahead of announcement on Nov 11”
Microsoft recently announced that it would replace the Nokia branding on upcoming Lumia smartphones with Microsoft. Today Microsoft Mobile has released a teaser image for a new Lumia smartphone for November 11th, which could be the first Microsoft Lumia Branded smartphone. Continue reading “Microsoft teases first Microsoft Lumia smartphone for November 11”
Microsoft has unveiled free Office for iPhone and iPad allowing users to create and edit documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The company also released standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for the iPhone, along with a new preview of these apps for Android tablets.
Microsoft has teamed with Dropbox in order to improve integration between Microsoft Office and Dropbox. Users can now easily access Dropbox directly from Office apps and edit Office files from the Dropbox app.
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Couple of weeks back Microsoft officially announced that it would replace the Nokia branding on upcoming Lumia smartphones with Microsoft. Today a smartphone codenamed RM-1090 from Microsoft has surfaced on China’s TENAA certification website with Microsoft branding on the front and back of the smartphone, replacing Nokia’s branding. Continue reading “Lumia RM-1090 with Microsoft branding gets certified in China”
Samsung is claiming that Microsoft has violated the deal between the two after it completed the Nokia acquisition earlier this year, as per the latest report from Reuters. The South Korean electronic giant is hence defending its action of not paying the royalties to Microsoft as the Nokia deal makes the software giant a direct hardware competitor.
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