News – Feb 16th

While Windows Phone is slowly growing with consumers it seems to be taking off with critics at a much faster rate. Case in point Windows Phone 8 was nominated for the U.K. Design Museum 2013 Design of the Year. The award is given out in seven categories–architecture, digital, fashion, furniture, graphics, product and transport…

Rule #10 is clearly not a problem for Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in their new Hollywood gig The Internship. But as interns at Google, it’s obvious that their journey amongst the brightest and youngest techies will not be smooth, mainly because of their age. There’s only one thing funnier than watching someone get frustrated with technology, and that’s watching it happen on the big screen …

We may still be waiting for T-Mobile’s first 4G LTE markets to officially go live, but today we’ve gotten a little taste of Magenta-flavored LTE thanks to an image leak of some of the carrier’s upcoming hardware. A shot posted by TmoNews has revealed a press render of T-Mobile’s first 4G LTE-capable mobile hotspot, which looks pretty much like one would expect a hotspot to…

Earlier this month, a rumor claimed that Microsoft is prepping a substantial “Blue” update for Windows Phone and in addition to Windows 8 that’ll include user experience tweaks and possibly help to unify their development platforms . Microsoft has yet to officially say anything about the Blue update, but some new job listings found by ZDNet contain references to Windows Phone Blue and Windows Blue…