{"id":388460,"date":"2010-03-04T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:59:35","slug":"microsoft-made-tag-app-lands-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388460","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft-made Tag app lands on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-163157\" title=\"and2\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/and2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/>In December 2008, Microsoft surprised a lot of people by <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2008\/12\/13\/microsoft-dips-its-toe-into-the-iphone-with-seadragon\/\">releasing an iPhone app<\/a> \u2014 Seadragon Mobile. A month later, they ensured the move wasn&#8217;t taken as a joke or gimmick by <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/01\/08\/microsoft-releases-tag-its-second-iphone-application\/\">launching another app<\/a>, Tag, into Apple&#8217;s App Store. Now, they have a few, including an app for <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/15\/bing-iphone-porn\/\">Bing<\/a>. And starting today, they&#8217;re doing the same for Android.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft.com\/tag\">Tag<\/a> for Android is the first Microsoft-made app <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tag\/archive\/2010\/03\/03\/microsoft-tag-reader-for-google-android-available.aspx\">launched<\/a> on the mobile platform. This is notable, of course, because Android is the mobile platform by Microsoft&#8217;s chief rival: Google. Still, as we saw with the iPhone, Microsoft has no problems getting its technology out there, even if it means using rival platforms. Aside from Android and iPhone, Tag also currently works on Windows Mobile, J2ME, Blackberry and Symbian S60 phones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vjSHbUp1ctq33e9ygpo-Q5pkm1c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vjSHbUp1ctq33e9ygpo-Q5pkm1c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vjSHbUp1ctq33e9ygpo-Q5pkm1c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vjSHbUp1ctq33e9ygpo-Q5pkm1c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=lzK8fd7-ECQ:9exB_NxBw3U:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=lzK8fd7-ECQ:9exB_NxBw3U:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=lzK8fd7-ECQ:9exB_NxBw3U:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=lzK8fd7-ECQ:9exB_NxBw3U:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=lzK8fd7-ECQ:9exB_NxBw3U:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2008, Microsoft surprised a lot of people by releasing an iPhone app \u2014 Seadragon Mobile. A month later, they ensured the move wasn&#8217;t taken as a joke or gimmick by launching another app, Tag, into Apple&#8217;s App Store. Now, they have a few, including an app for Bing. And starting today, they&#8217;re doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}