Ever See A Windows Phone In The Wild?

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Internally we’ve been discussing just how hard it is to find someone walking around with a Windows Phone. Admittedly, there’s a sea of iPhones, Android devices and Blackberries but I probably only see a Windows Phone in someone’s hands once a week. That’s still more than the zero times I’ve seen a WebOS device but … Read more

Microsoft Preempted The Wii U Four Months Ago – Xbox + WP7

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Just rethinking the demonstrations that Nintendo put on yesterday when they unveiled the Wii U. Well what they admittedly did was unveil the New Controller (some video footage they’ve acknowledged to have use Xbox and PlayStation images for because the Wii U is a year off). It’s a somewhat novel idea to have a touchscreen … Read more

Mobility Digest Review: ToughSkin Case for iPhone 4

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Touch capacitive devices like the iPhone 4 are great until you drop them. If that tragedy ever befalls you then you may have a shattered screen or at best a hairline crack. Either one of these scenarios is a bad one; it’s better to be pro-active in protecting one’s iPhone 4.

Today we will look at a case designed to protect the iPhone 4 from life’s daily traumas. Speck the well known and highly regarded Apple mobile device peripheral maker have released the ToughSkin Case for iPhone 4. This rugged case was created to be multifunctional with its rubberized exterior, inner hard shell case and belt clip holster that doubles as a viewing stand.

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iCloud – Brought To You By Microsoft and Amazon

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So about that iCloud thing. Infinite Apple received some screen shots of what a wifi sniffer reveals when traffic goes through the iCloud and the result: Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS cloud services received calls. They state “icloud.com provides some sort of authentication to a windows.net address, and then sends a confirmation back to iCloud. … Read more

iCloud vs Mango: Microsoft Showcases the Power of SkyDrive

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If yesterday’s iCloud feature announcement served to do anything it was to give iOS users their one shot at being able to claim innovation.  There is one problem with that, Microsoft isn’t going to let that happen.  Way back at Mobile World Congress and at MIX ‘11 we saw that SkyDrive integration was deepened.  People … Read more