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Microsoft has released an app in the Google Play store designed to get people to stop using said store and the Android phones that connect to it. Simply called “Switch to Windows Phone,” it scans your Android phone for all of your installed apps and then saves the results with your Microsoft ID. Then, using a companion app on Windows Phone itself, you can sign in and see all of the equivalent apps in Microsoft’s own store, tapping through to install them each one-by-one. It doesn’t show current Android users what those matched apps are, but it could be helpful to recent switchers.

It’s a clever idea, getting people over the concerns that apps won’t be available on Windows Phone, but the execution isn’t quite there yet. Scanning was…

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Due to Microsoft’s confirmation that support for its Silverlight plugin will end and the increase of plugin-free web browsers, Netflix will at some point should stream to Computers utilizing something various other than the tech it’s had in place considering that 2008. The business has already executed one example of the innovation for Samsung’s ARM Chromebooks, and prepares to bring it to Chrome on Computers and Macs ultimately. Right now, it’s awaiting several W3C initiatives it’s been working on called the HTML5 Premium Video extensions that handle things like video quality and DRM support to be fully implemented. As soon as the last one (Web Cryptography API) is readily available, it can ditch the custom-made API plugin it’s currently making use of and start checking on Computers and Macs. Not discussed, is any support for various other platforms like Linux, although Netflix states it cannot wait up until the attributes are “executed in all web browsers!”

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Three’s CEO could teach Vodafone’s CEO a thing or two about diplomacy. Whereas Vittorio Colao dismissed British LTE users as “technofreaks“, Dave Dyson has merely said that he’s “fairly relaxed” about upgrading Three’s network. During a quarterly earnings report yesterday, he said he’s in “no rush for LTE” and told people not to expect Three’s newly acquired chunks of LTE spectrum to be brought to life until Q4 of this year. He intends to wait and see how O2 and Vodafone position themselves, and that’s fine — just so long as he sticks to the earlier promise not to charge extra for unlimited LTE data.

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A month after North Korea began allowing foreign vacationers to make use of cellular phones within its borders, the country has provided the go-ahead to a move with far broader effects: for the first time, it will allow access to the web by means of mobile information. The 3G network won’t be readily available to normal North Korean residents, but the AP reports carrier Koryolink informed foreign citizens that the service will be offered no later on than March 1st.

Following his recent check out to the nation, Google chairman Eric Schmidt noted that it would be “really simple” for North Korea to provide mobile net access to its citizens. The country is unlikely to give broad access to the worldwide internet anytime quickly– the couple of North Koreans with cellphones are limited …

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At CES 2012, Belkin outed its WeMo line of home automation items with the House Control Switch and Movement Sensor with a Infant Display added in October. This year in Las Vegas, the company includes a Light Switch to the family. When joined an iOS device, WiFi router and your home’s existing electrical wiring, the Light Switch can be made use of to control lights from anywhere– including organizing– via the WeMo app. Furthermore, Belkin has actually revealed that Android compatibility will be readily available with the device introduces this summer or shortly after that. Ice Cream Sandwich the minimum OS requirement and beta screening is set to begin following month for Samsung Galaxy S III users.

(We’re waiting on images from Belkin, however when they arrive we’ll update this post promote de suite.)

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