Windows Phoneification will get you sooner or later, even if you never buy a Windows Phone at all. The first step was, obviously, the release of Windows Phone cellphones. But since Android and iPhone are much more popular it is rather unlikely you will have contact with them. However, many people have Xbox at home, many people use Windows-powered PCs at home and work, and now the look and feel of Windows Phone - tiles - is spreading like a disease. While it may be understandable why Apple is iOSinizing the Mac OS: the huge success of iPhone and iPad. It is strange why Microsoft is pushing the user...


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Convertcast Episode 102 Sunday, January 22, 2012     MISC Protect IP Act (PIPA), Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), OPEN Act - many sites go dark on 1/18/12 to protest (XDA developers, REDDIT, WikiPedia, CyanogenMod included) KODAK company goes bankrupt, some other companies like Microsoft and IBM fear they can long-term also share this destiny. Did you have Kodak camera or somethig? Kodak bankrupt because failed in TRANSITION from analog film to digital cameras. Android Some Sprint devices get Honeycomb update.  Evo 3d only gets an update that removes the embedded...


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Convertcast Episode 101 Sunday, January 15, 2012 MISC ICANN new domains - wtf?! Wasn't .xxx bad enough? thick whois system ICANN wants to indroduce - so no private whois and one needs to identify to registrars etc. the US embassy and terror alerts in Bangkok Was yours one of the disappearing 4Square accounts this week? SOPA samsung’s bada OS to merge with intel tizen OS (samsung is biggest maker of smarpthones globally!) http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2012/01/13/samsung-merging-its-bada-os-with-intel-backed-tizen-project/ Android CM lets you put ICS on HP Touchpad....


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Convertcast Episode 100 Sunday, January 8, 2012 Edward - resident Windows Phone and Kinect expert Diana - resident Android expert What did you like best in the 2011 tech world? I liked the push for competition, but not so much the litigation. Plethora of e-readers. the best in 2011: iCloud, iOS5, Windows Phone mango with multitasking and WiFi tethering, Kindle Touch, Kinect Siri and clones like it What do you want to see in 2012? Whatever happened to those paper thin batteries? One social network to rule them all, or updates to what we've got  so we can have the best...


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Convertcast Episode 94 November 9, 2011 Special guest: Wyatt LeCadre Apple bringing cornerstone apps to all platforms http://wyattlecadre.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/apple-everywhere/ Adobe kills Flash mobile Windows Phone in NYC (Herald Square) Alli and the iPad http://squaretrade.extole.com/a/clk/35307 Let's talk apps: Zite - Flipboard - Pulse Tweetings TWC Newstand ESPN - NFL 2011 Gas Cubby WordPress Follow Jerry on Twitter Follow Alli on Twitter Follow Wyatt on Twitter Call the Just Another Geek Site Google Voice number, and leave us a message! (304)...


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Nokia is currently still the biggest cellphone vendor in the world, considering units sold and including non-smartphones like their S40 feature phones that are popular in India and South America (revenue-wise Samsung and Apple are bigger thanks to fat margins in smartphone area) And after the failure of their own operating systems (Symbian, Meego) Nokia decided to switch to Windows Phone from Microsoft. A Nokia phone powered by Windows Phone? Really? Yes, really, dude: In the middle of November 2011 in Europe and in 2012 in USA the first Nokia smartphones powered by Windows Phone are going...


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3 years ago, in 2008, Apple started an app revolution (some say the 3rd computer revolution after the invention of the computer and the Internet) that has changed everything. Now we are reaching a phase in the app revolution where, metaphorically speaking, robots are making robots: apps can make apps inside of the mobile devices! Have you ever been commuting to work and thinking "if only I could spend this time interestingly?" or maybe you have been listening to a boring lecture of a professor and thought "I could play a game in my phone but it wouldn't be intellectually challenging enough..."?...


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We are now on the verge of the 3rd major phase of smartphone wars. Episode 3 if you like, or as I like to call it, Smartphone War 3. Let's take a short look back and let's predict what will be going on in smartphones in the next few years - after all how well one can predict is a primary measure of intelligence. Smartphone War 1 Before Smartphone War 1 started, Nokia-controlled Symbian (a mobile OS that originated from British EPOC mobile OS for PDAs) had the dominant market share. And as you can see from this graph, Microsoft's mobile operating system had a comfortable second or third...


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Convertcast Episode 88 August 30, 2011 I took a look around the interwebs for some Windows Phone 7 news. Their app store has hit a whopping 30,000 titles. According to our old friend Surur over at wmpoweruser, http://wmpoweruser.com/analysts-confirm-windows-phone-7-as-the-3rd-ecosystem-but-remain-guarded/ The Mango "resuming" screen is lame. Microsoft job posting - The Windows Live DRX team produces the SkyDrive client applications that fuel our customers thirst for stable, secure and available online storage. DRX is building experiences to deliver all of your content from the cloud and your...


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Back in March at CTIA, I discovered the DryCase. I shared their little demo with you here on JAGS. It was voted amongst the top 25 in the Last Gadget Standing, and was amongst my top two of show. But seeing a trade show demo, is never quite the same as DIY. So the nice people at DryCase sent me the small model to play with. When you play, you should play with children, so I enlisted the help of my nephew. Of course, it didn't hurt that he has a Kin, and I was far more willing to throw the Kin in a tub of water than my iPhone. They DryCase is as cool as it seemed from a distance, and I'm really...


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