{"id":703,"date":"2009-08-24T20:57:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=703"},"modified":"2009-08-24T20:57:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:57:10","slug":"microsoft-dials-up-emerging-market-phone-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft dials up emerging-market phone push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Monday announced plans for mobile software that aims to allow people in emerging markets to access various Internet programs using lower-end feature phones. <\/p>\n<p>The software, known as OneApp, is due out later this year and should allow people in emerging markets to access services like Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Live Messenger using the kinds of inexpensive phones most often sold for $20 or $30. Microsoft said Blue Label Telecoms in South Africa will be the first to use OneApp and will use it to offer phones that ship with a dozen mobile applications, including a mobile wallet program as well as the social-networking tools. <\/p>\n<p>Link &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10315927-56.html\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10315927-56.html\">http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10315927-56.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Monday announced plans for mobile software that aims to allow people in emerging markets to access various Internet programs using lower-end feature phones. The software, known as OneApp, is due out later this year and should allow people in emerging markets to access services like Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Live Messenger using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,36],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}