Microsoft hiring for mobile game studio

The mobile game unit will help develop titles for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and potentially other mobile platforms.
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Nokia loses market share to smartphones

HELSINKI: Nokia Oyj, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, lost market share as smartphones continued to outpace growth in the overall handset market, Gartner Inc said in a report. Nokia's share of global sales to end users fell to 34.2 per cent from 36.8 per cent in the year-earlier period, according to the Stamford, Connecticut-based market researcher. Smartphone sales gained 50.5 per ...
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Samsung Windows Phone 7 prototype spotted in wild

Up until now, Samsung’s public Windows Phone 7 outings have been limited to the Omnia-based developers’ prototype we reviewed back in July . Now what looks to be a commercially-headed device has broken cover, courtesy of Andrej Tozon ; his friend Matjaz Sircelj is Technical Community Manager at Microsoft, and gave him some hands-on access. Andrej can’t say much about the Samsung handset, bar the ...
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Could touch-screen smudges reveal passwords?

University of Pennsylvania researchers testing Android phones believe fingerprints on the touch screens could actually be a security risk.
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