November 10th, 2011 admin
If you take a look around the Bell Canada site, there is no longer any sign of Windows 7 Phones? In fact if you search for WP7 – you end up with a link to the HD7, however this results in the following message:
So what’s happening? There appears to be a general lack of interest between Canadian carriers to support the platform, who instead are focusing on iPhone, Android and RIM?
Take a look in retail stores and there are little or no signs of any Windows Phone 7 devices. The only units I’ve found have been mislabelled as running Android!
So are the carriers finally dropping support for Windows Phone 7, or simply clearing stock ready for the imminent arrival of Mango devices?
Nokia has stated that they’ll be bringing WP7 Mango devices to Canada in 2012, however there’s no confirmation on dates, carriers or models yet? How long will consumers be wiling to wait for WP7 before giving up and going with a different platform?
Are Microsoft and the device manufacturers going to miss their window of opportunity to establish a WP7 Mango presence in the Canadian mobile marketplace?
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November 3rd, 2011 admin
Just came across this error when running Windows Update on a fresh install of Server 2008 R2. Not a good start!
Initial suggestions pointed to the system date/time which was indeed incorrect, however after fixing (and even rebooting just in case) the error still appeared?
Turns out you need to update the root certificate for the machine first! You can download the update for this from the following Microsoft URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5397
Once downloaded, double click on the file to install. There’s no feedback to say it’s run successfully, but Windows Update suddenly springs back into life..
Now downloading the first 30 updates of many probably!…
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November 3rd, 2011 admin
If you’ve been suffering short battery life on your iPhone since upgrading to iOS 5, you’ll be relieve to know that Apple has acknowledged the problem and promised to release an iOS 5.0.1 fix within a few weeks.
According to “The Loop”, an Apple spokesperson said:
“A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices, We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks.”
In the meantime, people are reporting improved battery life by disabling “Setting Time Zone” (Settings>Location Services>System Services).
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