electronista.com - 9/2/2009
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Microsoft drew embarrassment this weekend when it revealed that the winner of its app development contest was an iPhone app. Although 14 out of the 15 young companies at the Startup Weekend event wrote for a Microsoft platform, it was an iPhone contact memorization app, Learn That Name, which ...
Microsoft’s second iPhone app: Microsoft Tag
iphonebuzz.com 1/12/2009 — Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after the launch of Seadragon Mobile last month: Microsoft Tag . Just point the device’s camera to a custom tag and instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social ...
Microsoft's First Store Opening "Imminent"
modmyi.com 10/17/2009 —
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Microsoft 's first store is ready to open and it could as early as Monday according to multiple published reports. Phoenix will play host to the first store as the software maker ups the ante in its competitive posturing with Apple.
As Reuters reported this ...
Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft's Windows Phone
appleinsider.com 10/9/2009 — Earlier this week, an anonymous tipster leaked the news that Microsoft's top secret Pink project, aimed to take on the iPhone just as the Zune targeted the iPod, was "near death and probably will be canceled." Another source has now spilled even more ...
Microsoft Must Make More Apps For The iPhone
businessinsider.com 9/30/2009 —
Apple's iPhone has quickly become the world's most important mobile software platform. It's time for Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, to take it more seriously.
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Mac security researcher wins Pwn2Own contest
appleinsider.com 3/19/2009 — In a repeat performance of last year, security researcher Charlie Miller arrived at the CanSecWest conference this week with a prepared exploit to use in cracking Safari running on Mac OS X. Unsurprisingly, Miller was able to use his exploit to ...
Microsoft's anti-Mac pricing campaign takes to the web
appleinsider.com 4/3/2009 — In a new series of web ads, Microsoft portrays two slot machines, one ringing up a Mac with bits of garbage, and the other presenting a cheaper generic PC along with the Zune, Xbox 360, and other things buyers could get with the money they'd save with ...
Windows Mobile Wants In the iPhone App Action, Literally [Apps]
gizmodo.com 8/11/2009 — The last few app store launches we've seen were plagued by the same problem: a dearth a stuff that's at all new, or that anyone, you know, wants . Microsoft's novel idea to avoid this same problem ? Port some iPhone apps ! The company posted a ...
Microsoft's New Retail Stores Look Just Like Apple Stores
businessinsider.com 16 days ago —
Microsoft opened its second retail store in Mission Viejo, Calif., last Thursday. It drew quite a crowd -- some 1,000 people, according to the Orange County Register , via CNET -- in part because Microsoft was giving away concert tickets to those ...
Microsoft's SideSight: Something Apple Should Watch
gearlog.com 10/22/2008 — A new Microsoft-developed technology called SideSight looks like something that deserves to be on a next-generation iPod touch. Or in a magician's repertoire.
The SideSight technology is contained in yet another paper that company executives are ...
Loopt shows iPhone a new trick —
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Apple's iPhone has been a sensation from its launch '” even if, digitally speaking, it can't walk and chew gum at the same time. There are now more than 65,000 applications in the App Store, but the iPhone only runs one at a time '” a ...
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