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• Windows Phone 7 can be remotely located, wiped

  Lose your phone much? If so, you may want to consider one running Windows Phone 7 (WP7) for your next replacement.

• 'Many thousands' of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets prepped for developers

  Microsoft is confirming that "many thousands" of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets will be given to selected developers starting in July, but confusion over how that will be done continues.

• Apps must disconnect to survive

  If your mobile application can’t work inside a lift, or crashes though train tunnels then you need to back to the drawing board, says one Windows Phone 7 developer.

• Windows Phone 7 vs Android

  Google's Android operating system and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 are the two main challengers to Apple's iPhone platform. These rivals offer two different approaches as they attempt to copy Apple's success in the fast-growing mobile device marketplace.

• Microsoft admits Windows Phone 7 slide was wrong

  Microsoft acknowledged on Friday that it used an inaccurate number to represent research company IDC's sales forecast for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform.

• Microsoft touts 'browser with no name' in Windows Phone 7

  At its MIX Web developer conference this week Microsoft had little to say about the unnamed browser in Windows Phone 7, even as it trumpeted a limited "preview" release of desktop Internet Explorer 9.

• No copy-and-paste in Windows Phone 7 OS

  Microsoft revealed this week at its Mix 10 conference for Microsoft-oriented Web developers that its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile OS will not include a clipboard capability for copy-and-paste operations -- at least not in the first version.

• Windows Phone 7 dumps cut & paste

  Microsoft has removed the cut and paste function from its forthcoming mobile phone OS, Windows Phone 7.

• Microsoft: No native code for Windows Phone 7

  Microsoft officials Monday confirmed at the company's MIX 10 developers event in Las Vegas that native applications will not be allowed on Windows Phone 7 devices. Only applications running in the Silverlight runtime environment or games in the XNA Game Studio runtime will be allowed.

• Windows Mobile apps won't work on new phones

  While Microsoft still isn't commenting on whether current Windows Mobile phones will be upgradeable to its new Windows Phone 7 software, it has finally officially revealed that existing applications won't work on the new platform.

• HTC to debut first Windows Phone 7 smartphone in Q4

  High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's biggest maker of smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system (OS) and Google's Android mobile OS, plans to launch its first smartphone with Microsoft's latest offering, Windows Phone 7, in the fourth quarter of this year.