Tag: Windows Phone

Facebook will reportedly pull its apps from Windows Phone at the end of April

The list of reasons to keep using your Windows Phone is getting shorter.

Report: Facebook ending support for Windows Phone

Users of older versions may have to download Facebook Lite to continue using the service.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone keeps slipping in market share

A 3.9 percent increase in global sales of smartphones hasn’t helped Nokia. Not one bit.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone is dying a rapid death

Microsoft’s latest earnings report paints a pretty bleak picture of Lumia’s future, as sales are way down compared to this time last year.

WhatsApp ending support for BB10 and older Androids may affect millions of South Africans

WhatsApp’s suggesting that users simply get better phones is not that simple.

Blackberry and Windows Phone are breathing their last

Windows Phone sold 4.3 million units in the last quarter of 2015, while Blackberry had a paltry 906 000.

Microsoft cutting back on Windows phone, writes off more than $8bn

Bad news all round for Microsoft, its users and its employees.

Microsoft backed app for mobile payments launches

Microsoft and Paycorp have partnered to bring their ZipZap mPOS app to smart devices.

Microsoft releases its own time-lapse app for Android and Windows Phone

Microsoft Hyperlapse is aimed at speeding up action movies into more than the edited highlights.

Microsoft changes the name of Windows Phone, again

The company has come full-circle with the naming policy of its mobile phones.

Microsoft competition offers upcoming devs R50k digital marketing prize

Calling all Azure developers.

Gauteng 2016 school registration site for parents goes live

Parents can now apply to register their kids for school in 2016 through the new Gauteng Department of Education online system.

Cortana is coming to iOS and Android

Microsoft’s digital assistant will appear on more phones and tablets than ever before later this year.

Qualcomm launches new mobile fingerprint scanner, uses sound to see your digits

The company also wants to put LTE into the WIFi spectrum and a brain in your phone.

Microsoft’s first Lumia is very good, and very cheap

The first MS-branded Lumia is a well-specced mid-range smartphone with a fantastically low price tag… and it’s available now.

Free Moovit app, the Waze of public transport, now works in Cape Town

Capetonians, prepare to navigate public transport with greater ease than before thanks to Moovit’s inclusion of the Mother City in its list of supported cities.

Windows Phone 10 preview is on the way

Will the next version of Windows Phone be the panacea that brings it to the fore.

Two blue ticks tell you when your WhatsApp messages are read

Two blues make a read in the latest update to WhatsApp’s feature set.