Manchester City Football Club outlines its digital agenda

Manchester City, the world’s wealthiest soccer club, is rolling out a number of new digital initiatives to help drive support and increase fan engagement,reportspaidContent. If you’re not overly familiar with football in the UK, most professional teams in both England and Scotland charge users to access its online content, including video and audio coverage of games. Manchester City began bucking that trend a couple of years ago when the club started offering its online content for free....

4 min · 706 words · Kevin Johnson

Mango update borking Office 365 and Exchange 2003 for some WP7 users

You knew that something had to go wrong. Microsoft was not going to deliver the Mango (Windows Phone 7.1) to all WP7 device owners without a single hitch, right? We have found the fly in the ointment. Microsoft is currently, and officially, looking into issues that users of its mobile line that have executed the update are having with accessing Office 365 and Exchange 2003. According to reports, the SharePoint Online part of Office 365 is causing problems....

2 min · 400 words · Kristen Mckenzie

Mango’s launch beats the odds and does not mimic NoDo’s fiasco

To the surprise of many, today’s Windows Phone mobileMango updatehas gone smoothly thus far. So much so, that several publications are applauding its graceful entry into the market. Why is that? Because the last released update to Windows Phone, NoDo, had one of the more awkward birthing processes we have ever seen with a firmware update. It was late, fragmented, prone to error, and subject to continued delay. That it was also minor in size made the problems all the harder to bear....

3 min · 474 words · Scott Thomas

Manhattan-sized portable island? Fund it on Kickstarter!

We’ve seen some great projects come out ofKickstarter, but nothing can top this. UK-born, SF-living Benjamin Peter Bernard Way wants to make an island. Oh, but not just any island. HisArc Island conceptwould be movable. Ah yes, and it would also be the size of Manhattan. You see, Mr. Way has some big ideas. With big ideas come big projects, and this one is no exception. He’s had a number of ideas over the years, raising £25 million for a venture known as Pulsar while still in his teens....

3 min · 434 words · Matthew Armstrong

Manilla’s free, online account management now on Android and iOS

By now you’ve likely gotten your automatic bill pay set up, you have a list of your monthly bills and you don’t really have to think about them all that much. While that’s handy, there is a lot to be said for having access to at-a-glance information about your accounts that automatic pay often can’t provide. Now take that a step further. What if you could keep track of your frequent flyer accounts, your Netflix, LivingSocial, Groupon and magazine subscriptions all in that same interface?...

3 min · 627 words · Kenneth King
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