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Tweet A new study from Kantar Worldpanel claims that Windows Phone’s share of the smartphone market has gone up to 8.2 percent in five key European markets, mainly because of lower priced Nokia phones. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet Xbox One voice commands may be a novelty addition, but many users may miss out on the feature at launch as Microsoft seem to be struggling to hit their release day targets. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet If there was any doubt about Google and its dominant reach on the web, then the five minute outage that took down all Google properties including GMail and YouTube on late Friday proved it for once and for all. Go Squared, which keeps track of web traffic, reported a 40 percent decline in overall traffic. On its website, the company noted that “the number of page views coming into…

Tweet Edward Snowden, the former CIA staffer who recently leaked a trove of documents about an NSA surveillance program known as PRISM, hasn’t exactly been a shrinking violet since he provided the information last week: in addition to a live interview with the Guardian shortly after the documents were published, Snowden did a live question-and-answer session hosted on the newspaper’s website on Monday, in which readers submitted questions via Twitter…

Tweet Microsoft has announced it will release just five security bulletins on June 11th as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday event, including one critical bulletin that affects most versions of IE Read more…      Neowin