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Monday February 6, 2012. 09:25 PM
Microsoft's renewed push for its Windows Phone platform centers on Mango, an update with hundreds of tweaks and features. Over the next few months, manufacturers such as Nokia will push an array of new smartphones boasting the software.It should come as no surprise, of...
Wednesday December 28, 2011. 09:50 PM
Now here's something you don't see every day: a leaked road map for Windows Phone's evolution through the end of 2012.That purported road map comes courtesy of WMPoweruser, which included a screen cap of it in a Dec. 27 posting. The blog also declined to mention its source...
Thursday December 22, 2011. 05:39 PM
Microsoft sparked a tech-world furor Dec. 21 with the announcement that, starting in 2013, it will decline to provide a keynote speech or booth at the Consumer Electronics Show.'We have decided that this coming January will be our last keynote presentation and booth at CES,' ...
Wednesday December 21, 2011. 08:44 PM
Microsoft and Nokia apparently toyed with partnering up for a Research In Motion takeover.That bit of news comes from The Wall Street Journal, itself quoting the ever-popular 'people familiar with the matter.' Those sources described the status of the talks as...
Wednesday December 7, 2011. 10:57 PM
Microsoft has pushed back the curtain from the app store it plans on integrating into Windows 8, in the process kicking off what will surely be a vicious competition with Apple and its own app storefront for Mac OS X Lion.Unlike Windows Phone, whose own app store is growing...
Tuesday December 6, 2011. 10:33 PM
At some point soon, Microsoft is going to deliver a radical revamp to the Xbox's Live Dashboard, one that positions the gaming console as more of a home-entertainment center.It's just a question of when, apparently.'We are still working to get the release out,' Larry Hyrb, a ...
Thursday December 1, 2011. 04:23 PM
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff used a high-profile company event in New York City to engage in one of his favorite activities: swiping at competitors such as Microsoft.'I think they've lost their relevancy,' was how he described Microsoft during a Nov. 30 question-and-answer...
Monday November 28, 2011. 10:54 PM
Microsoft has unveiled Bing's top-searched terms for 2011, a list that harbors absolutely no surprises.Topping the list of most-searched people is Justin Bieber, which suggests a lot of tweens are using Microsoft's search engine for their teen-idol needs. No. 1 in the...
Thursday November 10, 2011. 06:10 PM
In a bid to counter some of the Internet's larger ad giants--most notably Google and Facebook--Microsoft has joined in an advertising partnership with AOL and Yahoo.However, Microsoft isn't framing the agreement as a response to its competitors in that arena. 'Other players...
Wednesday November 2, 2011. 09:46 PM
Microsoft has updated its Bing for Mobile app for iPhone and Android, adding some new features and bringing the experience more in line with the experience offered on Windows Phone.'Today's update uses HTML5 to blend the mobile browse experience with the app experience so...
Tuesday November 1, 2011. 05:24 PM
Microsoft's innovative 'Courier' tablet prototype--which, if produced, would have offered two touch-screens bonded together in a book-style format--now has a cause of death: crushed with extreme prejudice by Windows 8.According to CNET's Jay Greene, who interviewed a number...
Monday October 31, 2011. 10:45 PM
Last week Nokia unveiled a pair of Windows Phone devices, the Lumia 710 and 800. They'll arrive in the United States sometime in early 2012, according to the Finnish manufacturer.'Lumia is the first real Windows Phone,' Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told the audience during a...
Monday October 24, 2011. 09:46 PM
A good chunk of Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs focuses on Microsoft and Bill Gates.In the book, he characterizes former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates as 'a business person' but not someone who necessarily made great products: 'He ended up the wealthiest guy around, ...
Thursday October 20, 2011. 11:05 PM
Next up for Windows Phone: attacking the middle range of the market.'We are dramatically broadening the set of price points in Mango-related phones that we can reach,' Andy Lees, president of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, told the audience during the Asia D conference...
Wednesday October 19, 2011. 06:43 PM
We can learn at least one thing from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco: When it comes to smartphone competition, Microsoft sees Android as a bigger threat than Apple.I'm basing that solely on the vitriol that Ballmer leveled at Android ...
Thursday October 13, 2011. 09:07 PM
Analyst Horace Dediu thinks Microsoft sold around 1.4 million Windows Phone units in the platform's first year of release.As he points out, that lowballs an earlier estimate from research firm Gartner, which plugged Microsoft's total number of smartphones sold in 2011 at...
Analyst Horace Dediu thinks Microsoft sold around 1.4 million Windows Phone units in the platform's first year of release.As he points out, that lowballs an earlier estimate from research firm Gartner, which plugged Microsoft's total number of smartphones sold in 2011 at...
Friday September 30, 2011. 05:43 PM
Microsoft's Bing search engine now offers detailed airport maps for searchers.'The new airport maps give you everything you need to navigate your way through your travels,' read a Sept. 29 posting on the Bing Community blog. 'Airport maps include information on parking...
Wednesday September 21, 2011. 04:47 PM
On Sept. 7, one of Microsoft's principal program managers for Windows Phone offered the world a very interesting Tweet.'I just got a chance to try out one of the slickest looking #Nokia phones I have ever seen. Soon, you will too! #wp7,' read that micro-message from Joe...
Tuesday September 20, 2011. 09:22 PM
I stumbled onto a CNN article about Bing a couple minutes ago. I have to admit, the lede was pretty eye-catching: 'Bing, Microsoft's two-year old search engine, is losing nearly $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up.'CNNMoneyTech reporter David Goldman then broke...
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