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Mainstream support for WP 8 ends July 2014, WP 7.8 September 2014
— Plaffo.com reports on the life cycle support dates of Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8. — According to the table Windows Phone 7.8 will receive security updates until 9 September 2014, while Windows Phone 8 will sunset on the 8th July 2014.
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Job posting confirms Holidays target for next major Windows Phone release
— There has been some controversy about the time scales for the next major release for Windows Phone and its counterpart for Windows 8. — According to Mary Jo Foley Windows Phone Blue will come after the Windows 8 release …
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Windows Phone Dev Centre will now allow multiple XAPs for the same Windows Phone 7 and 8 app
— Here is an interesting development for Windows Phone Developers. The latest improvements to the Windows Phone Dev Centre allows developers to basically publish two different apps for Windows Phone 7 …
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75,000 Windows Phone apps published this year, 54 apps per phone downloaded
— Speaking on the Windows Blog, Todd Brix, Senior Director of Windows Phone Apps Team, made some announcements about the year in review for the Windows Phone Store. — He noted Microsoft certified and published 75,000 apps …
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Microsoft claims 100% + increase in app downloads, developer revenue after WP8 debut
— On Twitter Microsoft's Todd Brix, Senior Director, Windows Phone Apps Team, has announced that Windows Phone app downloads and developer revenue has more than doubled since the advent of Windows Phone 8 in November.
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Windows Phone Developer Toolkit updated for Windows Phone 8
— Microsoft has announced the release of the Windows Phone 8 version of the Windows Phone Toolkit. — The Windows Phone Toolkit provide an additional package of controls that developers can use with the Windows Phone SDK …
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StatCounter data shows Windows Phone overtaking Blackberry in US by November 2012
— More by virtue of Blackberry's plummeting market share than amazing Windows Phone growth, it seems the installed base of Windows Phone is set to overtake that of Blackberry in US by the end of November 2012 (around week 47).
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Nokia VP: Pureview will come to Lumia devices “very soon”, Sprint and Verizon will get Lumias
— Neowin spoke to Nokia's Richard Kerris, VP of Worldwide Developer Relations who revealed a few interesting titbits. — According to Kerris “it wont be long” before we see Nokia Lumias on Sprint …
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New Arc soft keyboard may be coming to Windows Phone 8
— More than a year ago we reported on Microsoft designing a “one handed and next gen soft keyboard” for Windows Phone 8. — We now have a picture of the keyboard in question, courtesy of a leaked Microsoft Research presentation.
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Intel: Android dual core support so poor “having a second core is actually a detriment”
— Dual-core processors are just for show on Android — Android OEMs famously shipped phones with dual core processors well before the operating system even supported it.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).