I was tipped off via Twitter today that O2 Germany expects Mango to be delivered in mid-September which fits in well what other rumours that have been circulating. @Fisi_zubi asked O2 Germany when the update would be hitting O2 Windows Phones and the response he got was: Mango is planned for mid-September, so it may [...]

Here’s a list of what I hope and expect Microsoft to talk about over the next couple of days at the BUILD conference. Windows 8 (obviously) Expectations: – New Metro UI – New dev platform, new app package – New hardware announced and shown off – Windows Store to be announced and demoed – New [...]

Well this isn’t surprising but it is encouraging to see that Nokia is listing Microsoft’s BUILD conference on the company’s upcoming events listings. I guess this means Nokia will have some kind of presence at BUILD focussed on Windows Phone. I wonder if Nokia will be there to do more than drum up support for [...]

Just in case this week wasn’t going to be Microsoft focused enough Microsoft has made one significant announcement before BUILD even gets under way. The Windows Team blog has announced two new Samsung devices that sound very promising to me. The two new phones are the Samsung Focus™ S and the Samsung Focus™ Flash. The [...]

In the build up to BUILD (pun very much intended) I’ve been thinking about what to expect from the conference aside from the obvious Windows 8 news and one thing I keep coming back to is Windows Live. There are two big “things” that I think Windows Live can gain from the BUILD conference and [...]

I just saw via Twitter (thanks @chriswb) that the first Windows Phone Mango to go on sale now has is own website with a very nice video too. The website itself is very also very nice with elements from the Metro UI found on the phone appearing on the site, such as left and right [...]

Microsoft has just released an update to their Zune PC Software bringing the software up to version 4.8. I am about to work my way through the update and try and discover what is new with this update other than being mandatory for all Windows Phone Mango devices to connect to a PC. You can [...]

Well what a week it has been. It kicked off quite explosively with Google announcing that it planned to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5. That was shocking enough, the worlds biggest search company and probably the biggest web company will now be branching out into hardware. There’s no doubt going to be teething problems for [...]

Today Microsoft have launched a new social app from their Bing team that allows people to connect with friends in a new, easy way. The purpose of the app seems to be a quick way to invite your friends to do something; Microsoft use the examples of get-togethers, carpooling and trying to find people in [...]

I have just spotted another, official place that Microsoft is using the new square logo for Windows Phone; for the Facebook app. If this isn’t a clear indication that the logo will become very Metro then I don’t know what is. This follows news from a couple of weeks ago where Microsoft started using the [...]