Microsoft reportedly readying cross-platform streaming music service
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to unveil a new streaming music service at the annual E3 conference later this year. Citing unnamed sources, The Verge reports …
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Final major pre-launch Windows 8 release due during first week of June
Microsoft’s Buildings Windows 8 Twitter account on Monday evening announced that the Windows 8 Release Preview will be available at some point during the first week …
Chrome 18 is world’s most popular browser, Internet Explorer 9 leads in North America
Internet monitoring firm Pingdom on Monday released a new report on global Web browser share by browser version. The company found Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 …
Microsoft and Facebook announce $550 million patent deal
Microsoft and Facebook on Monday announced a $550 million patent agreement in which the social networking giant will purchase a portion of the patent portfolio …
Verizon plans big Windows Phone push for the holidays
Verizon Wireless chief financial officer Fran Shammo said the company is looking to market a third mobile platform to help develop a strong competitor to Apple …
Microsoft may be working on a two-sided smartphone display system
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published details on a Microsoft patent relating to a two-sided smart device display system for phones and tablets, PatentBolt reported …
Developer earns over $1,000 per day with a Windows Phone game
While Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform may not be as big as Apple and Google’s offerings, it is still possible for app developers to find success …
Microsoft posts Q3 beat: Operating income grows to $6.37 billion on $17.41 billion in sales
Following the huge loss reported by major mobile partner Nokia, Microsoft posted its fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday following the close of the market. Wall …
Nokia posts huge $1.7 billion Q1 loss; sales boss resigns as smartphone sales plummet 50%
Nokia warned that its first-quarter earnings would be weak, and the numbers are now in. Revenue declined 30% to €7.4 billion, or $9.7 billion USD last …
Microsoft announces Halo 4, coming this November
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the return of Master Chief and the Halo franchise with the release of “Halo 4” on November 6th. The franchise was …
Windows Phone marketing boss leaves Microsoft after just five months
BGR exclusively broke the news last November that Samsung’s vice president of consumer and enterprise services Gavin Kim had left the company to join Microsoft. As …
Windows 8 aims to take huge chunk of iPad share in less than a year
Microsoft and its partners have seemingly set some very lofty goals for Windows 8. Citing multiple anonymous sources at various unnamed Taiwan-based original device manufacturers, …
Conflicting reports question Windows Phone 8 upgrade plans
Following reports of a Windows Phone developer evangelist claiming that every Windows Phone 7.5 device currently on the market will receive an upgrade to Microsoft’s …
European carriers say Lumia phones can’t compete with iPhone and Android
Nokia’s attempt to regain the traction in the mobile market is turning out to be more difficult than the company once thought. Four major wireless …
Microsoft reveals three editions of its next-generation operating system
Microsoft on Monday announced that there will be three editions of its next-generation Windows 8 operating system: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. …
Microsoft patent reveals hand gesture system for future tablets
A recent patent application from Microsoft reveals that the software giant is looking to bring real-time hand-gestures to tablets, PatentBolt reported on Monday. The patent …
Nokia CEO calls multi-core processors a waste of battery life
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop reportedly stated that multi-core mobile processors are a waste of battery life in a recent interview with a Chinese newspaper. Yangcheng …
Microsoft forms subsidiary to work on various open-source projects
Microsoft on Thursday formed a new subsidiary that will work with open-source projects, open-standards groups and interoperability initiatives. The subsidiary is called Microsoft Open Technologies …
Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Phone roadmap reportedly leaks
Images of Microsoft’s product roadmap for partners have leaked onto the web. The documents were posted on Twitter by Maartin Visser, who discovered the them …
BlackBerry 7 rated most secure operating system
Trend Micro on Wednesday named Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 7 OS as the most secure mobile operating system in a new report titled “Enterprise Readiness of …
Microsoft reportedly plans to bring Kinect to Windows Phone 8
Microsoft’s motion- and voice-based Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs is coming to Windows Phone 8, VR-Zone reported this week. The software …
Nokia appeases angry mob, gains life-long loyalists
Each vendor handles widespread bug reports in its own unique way. Some companies do their best to avoid acknowledging issues unless coverage spills over into …
Windows Vista enters extended support, XP support ends in 2014
Microsoft products fit into two different life cycle stages — mainstream support and extended support. With mainstream support, users receive free security updates, stability improvements, …
Tablet sales to double in 2012
Worldwide consumer tablet sales are forecasted to reach 118.9 million units in 2012, according to market research firm Gartner. The figure represents a 98% increase …
‘Extremely poor’ Symbian sales, mixed Lumia sales to leave Nokia with another rough quarter
Nokia is in store for yet another rough quarter according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley. The struggling Finnish phone vendor posted a massive €954 million …
AT&T is going big with Nokia’s Lumia 900, but reports of a $150M marketing blitz are inaccurate
Nokia’s new Lumia 900 smartphone is getting a huge push at AT&T, but the carrier’s marketing budget for the new flagship Windows Phone won’t quite …
AT&T will spend more promoting the Lumia than it did on Apple’s iPhone [updated]
In the coming months, AT&T will spend as much as $150 million to help promote Nokia’s latest flagship smartphone, the Lumia 900. According to Ad Age, …
Nokia’s Lumia 900 tops Amazon sales chart
Nokia’s first U.S. carrier-backed flagship smartphone to launch in years now occupies the top two spots on Amazon.com’s list of best-selling cell phones. The new …
AOL sells 800 patents to Microsoft in $1 billion deal
AOL and Microsoft on Monday announced an agreement in which the software giant will purchase 800 patents from AOL in a $1.056 billion cash deal. …
Windows Phone will only account for 2% of app downloads in 2012, firm says
Despite reinforcements arriving this year from Nokia, Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform will only account for 2% of all mobile application downloads in 2012, a recent …
