For example, Cortana cannot help you with your next meeting if she doesn't have access to your calendar, contacts, location and so on.
Its own products such as Google Now make search unnecessary: information finds us based on contextual cues such as calendar and location.
Windows Phone devices will tell you how long it will take you to get to your next meeting, based on information from your calendar and location.
"The app is going to surface your most relevant notes based on calendar entries, location data and your own note access information," says vice president of mobile products Jamie Hull.
We access the native device services (calendar, contacts, location) and use this to cross reference the data with internet-based digital information".
For example, if a colleague asks to do lunch at 1pm, the app could gather information from a user's calendar, current location, past preferences and outside data (such as access to OpenTable) to suggest personalized responses, such as "I'm not available until 1 30.
This should boost a perception of privacy on the Facebook platform, but also deny developers the ability to build apps like photo album browsers, search engines, calendars, and location maps that could compete with Facebook's own products.
While they're promising that Mojo applications will run at native speeds and can use Javascript calls (Javascript Object Notation, to be specific) to access a "wide range of device services, including contacts, calendars, and location", we're still a wee bit tainted by Apple's strictly limited execution of web applications.
Cola, meanwhile, launched a text messaging app last year with interactive capabilities like calendar- and location-sharing, polling and shared to-do lists.
Now, in addition to contact information, people with iPhones or Android phones can share photos, music, calendar appointments and location, and can also become friends on social networks and send messages to one another.
