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 Somewhere in the world, sometime between October 1st and December 31st, somebody will be able to purchase a Nokia-branded Windows Phone . Exactly where, when, or who is still in question . . . → Read More: Nokia: first Windows Phones still shipping by end of year  I’ve liked Windows Phone Mango since I first laid eyes on it , but the truth of the matter is that most of the features being implemented are merely catching up to competing platforms. The Bing integration and voice-to-text capabilities are… pretty cool . . . → Read More: Microsoft Shows Off Tango Video Chat App On The HTC Titan  Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer was his usual frank self when he met financial analysts yesterday, admitting that the world isn’t yet as keen on Windows Phone as he’d hoped. To be precise, AllThingsD reported him as saying: “We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year.” His cunning plan . . . → Read More: Ballmer: Windows Phones aren’t selling very well, but we’re not worried  If this hodgepodge of sorta, kinda official confirmation is to be believed, Windows Phone users can look forward to native voice command functionality built-in to the Apollo update. Nokia US’ CEO, Chris Weber , first spilled the speech-to-text beans in an interview with VentureBeat back in early August, referring to the tech as a killer WP feature . . . → Read More: Windows Phone Apollo to feature speech-to-text, low-end Tango gets split in two  Microsoft has set out a pretty lofty goal for whomever applies to their latest job listing — they want some deeply technical people who, among other things, will help “find the location of every Windows Phone device in the world.” Useful location-based services like “Find My Phone” and Bing Maps have been baked into Windows Phone 7 since day one, but Microsoft seems to have something slightly different in mind for their location team. The listing specifically seeks people to work on their forthcoming core location service, details of which are largely unknown. The job listing, spotted by Neowin , does however make mention of what the core location service will be expected to do . . . → Read More: Microsoft Job Listing Hints At Locating “Every Windows Phone Device In The World”  Good news, folks — Tango is about to reach Windows Phone. No, not that Tango . We’re referring to the video calling service that’s already popular on iOS and Android devices, but has had absolutely no presence on Microsoft’s platform at all. . . . → Read More: Tango video calling en route to Windows Phone Mango?  Based on its history, you probably wouldn’t expect to see Windows Phone take off like a rocket. But apparently that’s what it’s going to do. Research out of Gartner and IDC says that Mango may grab a whopping 20 percent of the market by 2015, with the help of hardware partners like HTC and a little extra effort in the marketing department. . . . → Read More: Gartner, IDC: Windows Phone To Steal Second Place From iOS By 2015  While Apple has been catching much of the flak for collecting iPhone and iPad user location data without consent, it turns out that rival Microsoft may have been quietly up to the same. A recent class action lawsuit filed in Seattle district court alleges that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system collects users’ location data, even after offering users the chance to opt out . . . → Read More: Microsoft Sued For Collecting WP7 Location Data Without Consent  While the patent wars continue to rage on, a recent move by Nokia may signal an aggressive new stance on handling patent infringement. Canadian IP firm Mosaid has announced a strategic purchase through which they gain control of nearly 2,000 patents out of Nokia’s library. The price tag for such a hefty acquisition . . . → Read More: Mosaid Acquires 2,000+ Nokia Patents, Will Handle Licensing & Litigation For A Cut  Microsoft has released the Azure Toolkit for Android, providing an SDK and native libraries to support storage and authorization for its Windows Azure cloud-based development platform. . . . → Read More: Microsoft releases the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android |
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