Windows Phone 8.1 Update hands-on: An insignificant upgrade

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	Windows Phone 8.1 Update hands-on: An insignificant upgrade Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 (we'll call it 'the Update') is rolling out now, but don't get too excited.The infrequency of these releases makes any new one seem important. This was justified with Windows Phone 8.1. Not so with this update (er, Update), which I tried on the Lumia 1520 phablet (it wasn’t available yet for our Nokia Icon test phone). It adds a nice feature or two, but nothing earth-shattering. Mark Hachman Opened folders appear as a small icon at top, with contents grouped below. When compressed, the icons shrink down and live in the folder.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Airwatch AirWatch Connect 2014 Global Tour AirWatch Connect, the leading event for enterprise mobility, connects you to the people, tools and technology to drive mobile innovation across your organization. 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Take a look at this on-demand Webcast where IDG asks an expert panel pressing questions surrounding mobile security and management. Prepare to have with your mobility questions answered! Learn more Amazon Fire dubbed an 'experiment in e-commerce' with lessons for future phones Amazon' first smartphone, the Amazon Fire, has been nothing but controversial.Panned initially by reviewers before its release a week ago, one expert said on Monday that Amazon's basic intent with the Fire is to field an initial device to mainly gather corporate insights on ways to sell more Amazon products online.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: iPhoneys: Apple iPhone 6 concepts "If you view the Fire phone as an effort by Amazon to break into the phone market that then sells millions, this is not it," said Michael Mace, mobile strategist at an independent user testing group called UserTesting. "But if you view it as a long-term experiment to see what's needed to build e-commerce into a phone, then it's a really good experiment to help Amazon find out what's good and what it needs."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Android tops iOS in online usage for the first time, says one tracker A web metrics firm has announced that Android devices accounted for more mobile web traffic than iOS in July, the first time that’s happened since NetMarketShare began tracking such statistics. NetMarketShare uses data from its analytics clients to track which operating systems and browsers are being used to access the websites it serves. Android and iOS, between them, account for the vast majority of mobile web traffic, a total of nearly 89%. Of that, Android’s share for the month of July was 44.62%, while iOS accounted for 44.19%. +ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems used by its networking gear | 20 cool things you can do with a Raspberry Pi +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: RES Software Automation for a Better Tomorrow Check out the five most common annoyances facing enterprise IT service desks today, and how automation can resolve all of them. Download the white paper Learn more Mobile operators lean on Samsung devices for next-generation messaging The Galaxy S5 and S4 are getting new operator-friendly file share and messaging functionality Read More Coolest wearable technology: Robot suits for physical labor Last year, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Engineering tested robotic suits that give workers superhuman strength to handle heavy objects at its facility in Okpo-dong, South Korea, according to a recent report in the New Scientist. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Flying High on the Use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Flybe was one of the 21 companies that were interviewed for quantitative results on their operations as part of an IDC ROI analysis. This case study presents the qualitative side of the company's success story. 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