One of the problems with Windows Phone when the operating system was first released was that while you could secure your phone with a passcode it was either all or nothing. This meant that you either had to type in a passcode every single time you wanted to do anything on your phone or it [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Why Smartphone Security Has to Come Front and Centre
For the last few days I’ve been using the new beta update to Microsoft’s smartphone operating system, Windows Phone, on my HTC handset. I’ve written a full hands-on review of this ‘Mango’ update at our sister website Windows7News. It’s a great update and finally brings full cloud services to smartphones with the integration of SkyDrive [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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More Mango Features Emerge
As we get closer to the official release of the first major update for Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, more details of features are emerging, and some of them are looking extremely useful indeed. The expanded features list comes courtesy of WPSauce.com and includes… AppChecker – a feature that will find appropriate applications in the marketplace [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
BBC Languages
BBC Languages is a website by the BBC that is providing language courses for several popular languages such as German, French, Spanish and Chinese. A language portal was constructed for each language that is used as the main hub for that language. From there students can get a quick fix of the selected language which [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Free online language courses
Most online language courses that I have tested so far do not utilize the advantages of the web at all. Those courses simply copy language courses from books. Mango is the first language course that I’m aware of that uses interactive elements to support the language course.