{"id":6871,"date":"2009-02-10T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:50:00","slug":"microsoft-takes-mobile-to-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/6871-microsoft-takes-mobile-to-web.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft takes mobile to web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is planning to launch an online mobile app store, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNewsMolt\/idUKTRE51811V20090209\">report<\/a> the &quot;online bazaar&quot; will be for phones running Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Mobile operating system, not unlike Apple&#8217;s iPhone store. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has also launched a limited beta version of a new mobile site called My Phone.<\/p>\n<p>The My Phone website went live late last week and is intended to allow users to synchronise information such as contacts and calendar entries between a Windows Mobile cellphone and the My Phone website. Users will also be able to share pictures with friends and relatives using the free service. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsmobile\/myphone\/myphone.aspx\">My Phone website<\/a>, users of the service will get 200MB of free storage and synchronisation between a users phone and the website will be automatic. <\/p>\n<p>The mobile app store is believed to be modeled on the similar iPhone app store. <\/p>\n<p>Nick Jones, vice president at IT analyst Gartner, says that &quot;Microsoft&#8217;s online mobile application store is pretty much a &#8216;me too&#8217; option trailing behind Apple. This is the sort of thing you need to have to succeed in the mobile platform space, but as the mathematicians say, it&#8217;s a necessary but not sufficient condition for success.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?p=2532641#post2532641\">Discuss My Phone<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users will be able to synchronise their mobile phone with the My Phone service.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}