Yesterday, as part of the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft presented an updated version of its mobile platform. Windows Phone 8 is very different from the “seven” and may well become a real competitor to iOS and Android.

The development of the secret Meltemi OS for low-cost smartphones was discontinued by Nokia due to budget cuts of the company. 

The other day we wrote that Angry Birds and PES do not work on new budget smartphones from Nokia (namely Lumia 610). Just last night it turned out that the problems are not only with the gadgets of the Finnish manufacturer. It turns out that in addition to the mentioned applications on budget devices, about 25% of mobile Xbox Live games will not work on Windows Phone. 

According to a study conducted by Game Developer magazine, Unity is the most popular engine among mobile developers. More than half of the insiders interviewed by the magazine said that they use this package for development. 

Microsoft and Nokia, with the help of a jury, determined 7 winners of the second wave of the mobile developers competition called “The best applications – free promotion!”.

According to figures published by Microsoft, its mobile platform has not only caught up in popularity, but also left behind Apple’s operating system in the People’s Republic of China. MTS claims that the share of WP in Russia is greater than that of iOS.

According to unofficial data, there are very few left to the mark of 100 thousand unique applications on the Microsoft platform.

Microsoft and Intel are going to seriously shrink Apple’s share in the tablet market by releasing more than 30 devices on the “eight” to the shelves by the end of the year. 

The Redmonds made an unexpected offer to the developers: to transfer their applications to the newly opened new Windows Phone Marketplace markets by Microsoft itself.

As soon as Apple released a new iPad, rumors began to spread about a new, new iPad. They say it will be quite small. Why its release will not take place, read below.  

On June 7-8, the VIII International Business Forum “The World of Mobile Content – MoCO 2012” will be held in Moscow.

 Transitions of specialists from one corporation to another are quite common in the IT market.

Western journalists are sure that the Apple company is developing an original controller for its devices.

A representative of the Finnish company Rovio last Friday said that the company is not going to publish Angry Birds Space on Windows Phone 7. Analysts considered this statement a serious blow to the Microsoft platform, which may well negatively affect its future. However, as it turned out later, everything is not so sad. 

Microsoft’s mobile platform in the UK market is growing mainly due to sales of the Lumia 800; American users are more satisfied with the Lumia 710 than the iPhone 4S.

Microsoft, together with Nokia, announces the launch of a program to support the best applications created for Windows Phone 7. 

To protect the rights of users, six leading companies in the field of mobile technologies have created a single legal protocol for mobile applications. 

The CES exhibition was relatively quiet – without discoveries and interesting releases. It is believed that the loudest announcements of the first half of 2012 will take place at the Mobile World Congress show, which will begin in Barcelona on February 27. Which ones exactly? Read below. 

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