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Bing chat bot, Cortana’s sister from Microsoft China

Four days ago, Microsoft China released a Bing branded AI chat bot Xiaobing. Initially, the Bing chat bot was exclusively available in Tencent’s WeChat, the most popular mobile messaging app in China. But since yesterday, Tencent immediately banned all …

Microsoft quietly pushes Cortana China specific features to users

Today I noticed some changes to Cortana on Windows Phone 8.1. Microsoft has quietly pushed China specific features and contents to Chinese users, though Cortana is still only available when the phone is set to US(region, speech and language).

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Microsoft Careers job teases Cortana on Windows

Since Microsoft announced Cortana along with Windows Phone 8.1 at Build 2014, “Will Cortana come to more platforms” seems to be one of the top questions. Cortana herself has said she’s a fan of PCs – a hint that Cortana …

Microsoft announced new WP OEMs K-Touch and Blu

Today, two new phone makers K-Touch and Blu join Windows Phone OEMs camp. Microsoft announced these two OEM partners at the Qualcomm Reference Design and Wireless Innovation Summit in China.…

Nokia X launches on Mar 24th in China, pre-order begins now

Today Nokia and JD.com jointly announced the pre-order of Nokia X phones begins today in China. The Nokia X phones, Nokia’s newly announced Android family, will exclusively be selling through JD.com JDPhone program and be available on March 24th.…

Bing Health and Fitness Beta comes to Windows Phone 8

When Windows 8.1 was delivered last October, Microsoft released two brand new Bing Apps, Bing Health & Fitness and Bing Food & Drink, to extend already existing Bing Apps family . At the same time, Microsoft Bing AppEx team …

Microsoft SkyDrive renamed to OneDrive

Microsoft today announces the SkyDrive will become OneDrive. OneDrive.com preview site is available and titled “OneDrive is coming soon”. Users can sign up on the OneDrive site to be first to know when OneDrive is rolled out. And don’t forget …

Nokia Lumia 526, a Lumia 525 variant, passes Chinese certification

Nokia Lumia 525, codename “Glee”, has passed Chinese certification TENAA early this week. But soon after that, another unannounced Nokia Lumia phone passed TENAA certification. It is Lumia 526, likely a Lumia 525 variant, for China Mobile “TD-SCDMA

Microsoft to take operating rights for Skype from TOM Online in China this month

In mainland China , Skype has been operated by a joint venture with TOM Online for about 9 years. Now, TOM-Skype announces Microsoft will take operating rights for Skype in China on November 24th. It is definitely a good news …

Lumia 1520 pricing and specs leaked by Nokia official Tmall store

Nokia World is only 2 days away, Nokia is expected to announce six new devices, including phablet Lumia 1520 and tablet Lumia 2520. Today, it is reported that Nokia China’s official Tmall store leaks Lumia 1520 pricing and specs information.…