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Windows 7 phones only usable with Windows Live ID
May 18th
The use of a smartphone with the new Windows Mobile 7 Phone will be possible only with a valid Windows Live ID. Even with the early versions of the Google Android operating system, there was such pressure, which was then removed under pressure from concerned users and privacy advocates again.
Since Android Google Account 1.5 no longer necessary to use an Android phone.Even Apple’s iPhone at a less rigorous way, such as Microsoft reported tweakers.net Phone with Windows 7, as areamobile.de, citing a report by the Dutch website. Admittedly, the iPhone users have an iTunes account to use the iPhone for the first time to activate them. At a later stage, however, no more iTunes account is required.
Source: microsoft.com
With Windows Mobile 7 this seems to be otherwise well. The use of new Microsoft smartphones will be possible only with a valid Windows Live ID. This should emerge from a secret Microsoft document that tweakers.net present. Thus, a Windows Live ID is not only for the initial set up (to sync to the iPhone) is necessary, but also contacts or other services from Microsoft, such as the Windows phone access 7 Market Place.
In addition to seven cell phones a certificate installed on Windows, which is to prevent that can be installed unauthorized software on the Microsoft Smartphone.Moreover, Microsoft can thus always recognized by whom the Windows Mobile 7 Phone can be used. A similar procedure previously met with great criticism.Android users and data protectors protested against such a constraint in Google’s operating system. With success: Since Android 1.5 a Google account is needed anymore.
Hack: How Google Android 2.1 can be installed on Windows Mobile Phones
Mar 3rd
The mobile phone operating system Windows Mobile is in comparison to competitors such as Android, iPhone OS and webOS as complicated and outdated with the new Windows 7 Phone Series later this year. Although Microsoft will bring an entirely new operating system on their Smartphone’s which scored after their presentation at the Mobile World Congress last week of kud
But who wants to wait as the owner of a Windows Mobile phones and no longer wants to give his old cell phone new skills, interests, perhaps the instructions, such as Android can bring on some Windows Mobile 2.1 Smartphone. The XDA-Developers forum will detail how to do it, but the whole thing is just something for people who know technology.
The four smart phones HTC Tilt (also known as HTC Kaiser), Niki, Vogue and Polaris are eligible for the hack. Still has the whole beta status are the two biggest bugs massive problems with Bluetooth and functioning after installing the new ROM.
Otherwise, the Windows Mobile Smartphone with Android will work pretty well. The chopped Smartphone are thus the first HTC phones with the new 2.1 version of Android
Google also dominates the mobile search market
Mar 2nd
A study of Opera whose browser version Mini has 50 million users in the U.S., more than 9% of the pages that are visited via the mobile comes from Google searches. Although this is a study conducted by users of Opera Mini in the U.S, the results could be very similar in the European continent. Opera has taken into account more than 50 million users who are using a browser for mobile devices as the company says. Thus 9% of all Web pages that are visited via the mobile comes from the results of a search through Google.These are data from January and recorded a total of 23,000 million Web pages visited. Opera Mini was not yet available for the iPhone in this period, so the searches come from devices such as Nokia, RIM BlackBerry, Android, etc. In second place is situated Yahoo!, with 4.3%, while the search engine Microsoft Bing has only been used in 0.03% of the pages visited.
Google swallows Internet photo service Picnik
Mar 2nd
A new day, a new Google service: The same as tireless expansionshungrige California web giant Google can also take pictures in the future to deal more specifically photos online. Because Google has the web-based photo editing service Picnik accepted.
Picnik is a start-up with about 20 employees in Seattle and offers the ability to edit digital photos directly in the Web browser without installing additional software. The basic service is free for two U.S. dollars extra per month you can use more functions, but even without registration, many basic tools are available.
Google would be excited by the functionality and change the time being nothing to Picnik, it was said from Silicon Valley. On the purchase price were not disclosed. The recent expansion underlines the fact that Google already developed from a pure search engine into a major General Merchandise store in the global data network, now extends Google’s portfolio of word processing including about navigation to videos – which is Google from its core business, the sale of make online advertising in the Internet search of independent will. Only two weeks ago Google announced Moreover, even a trial basis to build a super-fast Internet in the United States.
Microsoft is pushing companies to rebel against Google
Feb 27th
A case that has the air of revenge for the Redmond Company that has repeatedly been accused in recent years of abuse of dominance.
Google moreover suggested that Microsoft had prepared the plot that was because it became over time a competitor in many segments (online search and Web services, advertising, browser…). In a contribution posted on the blog “Microsoft on the Issues” (“Microsoft responds to questions”), David Heiner, Deputy General Counsel of the software company, returns to the complaint. The man scratches Google recalling that the latter is the subject of special attention in many countries vis its position in web search, online advertising and to a lesser extent, digitization of literary works. “Many services including search and online advertising are increasingly controlled by a single company, Google”, David Heiner concerned that pushes companies to move to mobilize and make a complaint against Google.
He said complaints against the search engine would have stopped growing in recent months with the rise of the latter.
Need traffic to increase the quality
It is also on the register of innovation that Microsoft wants to train the legislature. “Bing needs a volume of queries that are very important to increase the relevance of research findings concerning the words that are [...] is why Microsoft and Yahoo have pooled their search volume” explains David Heiner. Before concluding: “That’s why we’re concerned about Google’s business practices that tend to lock publishers and advertisers, making it more difficult for Microsoft to gain search volume. If a company cannot be punished for being successful with users, Microsoft’s position reflects the concerns of the latter: losing significant market share in a number of areas. While trying to return the situation to his advantage by taking the defence business.