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Author Archive: Aliqudsi

Hey, my name's Ali- Currently a fifth (and final) year Dental Student from Chicago; studying in Jordan. I love all sorts of gadgets almost as much as I love my cookies! Be sure to follow my Twitter handle @AliQudsi and Subcribe to my Youtube for the latest videos - no pressure. Thanks.

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Video: The Reality of the WP App Situation #MustSee

Video: The Reality of the WP App Situation #MustSee

| March 8, 2014 | 60 Replies

Advertisements Nokia Canada have published a truly super video explaining the app situation across the platforms, detailing that bigger numbers isn’t always better, like when there are thousands of flashlight apps in the store (many of which usually involve accessing your SMS, Contacts and location on Android). The video also explains that although WP might […]

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Jimmy Fallon Thanks Microsoft for Releasing Cortona Voice Assistant

Jimmy Fallon Thanks Microsoft for Releasing Cortona Voice Assistant

| March 8, 2014 | 2 Replies

Although Microsoft have yet to release Cortana and WP 8.1, or to even announce it; Jimmy Fallon called it out on his late night show, thanking them for naming it Cortana. Pretty interesting since I assumed no-one outside the tech world even knew what was going on with WP 8.1, let along knowing what it’s […]

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More Details About WP 8.1 Action Center Revealed

More Details About WP 8.1 Action Center Revealed

| March 7, 2014 | 4 Replies

According to “Roman” one of the original leakers of the WP 8.1 SDK, here are a couple more details of the upcoming action center. pic.twitter.com/aNgEJACWgx — Roman L. (@AngelWZR) March 6, 2014 The Action center will be able to support up to 20 notifications per app (20 from Instagram, 20 from FB etc.), which will […]

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WP 8.1 to Support 1 Minute Background Update Intervals + Hints of WP 8.5

WP 8.1 to Support 1 Minute Background Update Intervals + Hints of WP 8.5

| March 7, 2014 | 10 Replies

One of the developers who was using the WP 8.1 SDK to develop his app has noticed that one of the new features in the OS is the ability for tiles and apps to update at one minute intervals when running in the background (I believe the minimum in WP 8 is currently 30 minutes). […]

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Nokia to Hold Event on April 19th? 8.1 Devices to be Announced?

Nokia to Hold Event on April 19th? 8.1 Devices to be Announced?

| March 5, 2014 | 18 Replies

According to @evleaks, Nokia might be holding an event on April 19th. We can expect this event to be a Lumia one, seeing how there wasn’t any Lumia action at MWC; in fact the Microsoft Build conference is at the beginning of April, meaning that WP 8.1 would be fully announced by then. If so […]

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Report: Bill Gates and Nadella Opposed Nokia Acquisition at First

Report: Bill Gates and Nadella Opposed Nokia Acquisition at First

| March 5, 2014 | 40 Replies

A newly published report by Business Week has shed some more light on the thoughts of the Microsoft board and current CEO Satya Nadella on their position regarding the Nokia acquisition. Initially the CEO at the time, Ballmer was the biggest supporter for the acquisition, hoping to buy not only the Devices and Services division, […]

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Video: Sailfish OS Running on Nexus 4

Video: Sailfish OS Running on Nexus 4

| March 5, 2014 | 17 Replies

Our old friend Sam was over at the Jolla booth last week during MWC, and got his hands on a Nexus 4 running Sailfish OS! Apparently Jolla are planning on allowing anyone interested to flash the OS onto their phone (similar to what Ubuntu and Firefox tried doing), the idea behind this is to gain […]

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Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone Now Available! (Video Demo)

Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone Now Available! (Video Demo)

| March 5, 2014 | 6 Replies

Facebook Messenger was announced to come to Windows Phone about a week ago at MWC, and it’s already here! the app works as expected with quick notifications and virtually no delay, the Facebook Messenger app also acts as a standalone messaging app meaning that people should be able to reach you by your phone number […]

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Video: Cortana in Action on WP 8.1 + Quiet Hours

Video: Cortana in Action on WP 8.1 + Quiet Hours

| March 4, 2014 | 12 Replies

The folks over at UnleashThePhones have just released yet another video, this time showing off Cortana in action on WP 8.1. Cortana is accessed by a live tile shortcut in the demo (hopefully though long pressing one of the navigation buttons will suffice in the future). After that some questions are details are taken for […]

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