If you’ve ever used SoundHound (or its arch rival Shazam) chances are good you were holding your phone out to identify a catchy song whose name you didn’t know. Now the company is introducing Hound, SoundHound’s little sibling, but one with a slightly different identity. Instead of helping name that tune, the free Hound for …

Nokia may be committed to producing Windows phones as its primary mobile operating system, but not before slowly parting with its first love. The company will continue to support smartphones that run the Finnish company’s Symbian platform until 2016, CEO Stephen Elop told Anna Shipley of Nokia Conversations, China Edition in an interview (video below). “We’re in a period where …

Microsoft has shared more details about the upcoming refresh to the online Windows Phone Marketplace application store that the company first teased yesterday in a blog post to developers. The screenshot below was internally labeled as a final version of the new design, which is scheduled to launch when Microsoft releases its Mango update this fall. The Mango update will …

Microsoft announced today during a news event tied to a forthcoming Windows Phone 7 update that its Windows Phone Marketplace holds 18,000 apps. While that’s peanuts compared to Android Market’s 200,000 apps and the iPhone App Store’s estimated 500,000 titles, it appears that Windows Phone 7 may actually have a similar or larger haul than BlackBerry App World, depending on …

Among Microsoft’s many software announcements to flow from this morning’s Windows Phone 7 update event in New York is a list of new hardware partners. The next wave of Windows phones will come from a crew that is both diverse and familiar. Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE are new Windows Phone partners. The former two are best known for computing devices …

In addition to today’s Windows Phone 7 Mango software and hardware announcements, there is another tidbit aimed squarely at Windows Phone web use: the Mango update will also include a new version of the online Windows Phone Marketplace. Similar to Google’s Android Market and RIM’s BlackBerry App World, the Mango edition of the online marketplace will sell and download games …

Windows Phone 7 is getting a fair amount of work done. In addition to a more integrated outlook on apps, the Windows Phone update coming this fall (code-named Mango), will feature improvements in communications and better Web browsing, with search. Communications On the communications front, the Mango update will see a multi-network chat feature that gets conversations going among Facebook …

Seven months after launching its bold new Windows Phone 7 OS, Microsoft peels open its forthcoming Mango update at a preview event in New York. There are still plenty of unknowns, like whether the more than 500 software updates will be tempting enough to attract customers and gain market share. Windows Phone Mango update (photos) +14 more See all photos …

In addition to today’s Windows Phone 7 Mango software and hardware announcements pertaining to the phone is another tidbit aimed squarely at Web use. This fall’s Mango update will also include a new version of the online Windows Phone Marketplace. Similar to Google’s Android Market and RIM’s BlackBerry App World, the Mango edition of the online marketplace will sell and …

Imagine that you’re searching for a restaurant or for a movie time on your iPhone, but instead of receiving a long list of links, you see thumbnail images for Web sites instead. Meet Do@ (doo-at) (download), a newly launched iPhone freebie that does just that. With Do@, search results aren’t just thumbnails for pages you have to load, they’re active …