How Nokia plans to take US with Windows Phone 7
Nokia has a few tricks up its sleeve for introducing its upcoming Windows Phones to North America. The mobile phone giant, quickly losing grip on one of the hottest markets in tech, plans to use...
View ArticleMonday surprise: Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5B
Well, I get back from a weekend vacation and there’s a surprise in my inbox this afternoon (I was off the grid until then). Google wants to buy Motorola Mobility? For its intellectual property? I guess...
View ArticleWhat Google’s Motorola acquisition means for Microsoft
Microsoft could end up an accidental winner as a result of Google’s planned $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. But it needs to make the right moves. So far, Windows Phone 7 has not been...
View ArticleNokia asks you what its Windows Phones should be named
How about Nokia Core? Or Nokia Vision? Or Nokia Metro? These are just a few of the choices people have posted to a new online poll that asks what Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phones should be named. The...
View ArticleLawsuit: Microsoft tracks Windows Phone users against their wishes
Seattlepi.com’s Levi Pulkkinen reports: “Microsoft has been tracking Windows Phone 7 users movements despite promises that customers can opt out of the location-reporting program, according to a...
View ArticleMicrosoft has high expectations for Windows Phone ‘Mango’
Gartner Research says Windows Phone will attain a 19.5 percent worldwide market share by 2015. Analysis firm IDC is forecasting a 20.3 percent share for Microsoft’s smart-phone operating system. But...
View ArticleNearly half of smart-phone users considering Windows Phone, firm says
While 44 percent of current smart-phone owners are considering Windows Phone 7 for their next device, half of consumers don’t even know about Microsoft’s newest mobile platform, NPD Group says. It...
View ArticleWindows Phone Mango update coming ‘in the next week or two’
Microsoft will start rolling out the first big update to Windows Phone 7 “in the next week or two,” the company said today. Actually, to be perfectly clear, the update – known as “Mango” – will mark...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Samsung expand their smartphone partnership
The Associated Press reports: “Microsoft and Samsung Electronics have agreed to cross-license each other’s patent portfolios, with Microsoft getting royalties for the mobile phones and tablets Samsung...
View Article‘Where’s my Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) update?’
There seems to be some confusion around when Windows Phone users will get their big “Mango” software update. As least that’s what I’m hearing from Microsoft Blog readers. One reader called to say many...
View ArticleIs Microsoft making $1 billion from mobile?
There’s been considerable buzz today about Goldman Sachs’ new estimate that Microsoft will bring in around $444 million this fiscal year by asserting patent licenses for Google Android. But could it be...
View ArticleNew Microsoft ads aim to dispel the ‘dark side of tech’
Microsoft is beginning a big new advertising campaign Sunday evening, and the company wants to show people how four of its major products work together in the living room – and help families break free...
View ArticleNokia unveils its Windows Phones
The Associated Press reports: “Nokia Corp. on Wednesday launched its long-awaited first Windows cellphones, hoping to claw back market share it has lost in the tough, top-end smartphone race to chief...
View ArticleNew Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ smartphones hit the market
Microsoft and its partners today released the newest line of smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 software, an updated mobile operating system also known as “Mango.” Three new phones are...
View ArticleMicrosoft builds a giant Windows Phone at NYC’s Herald Square
If you’re not Apple and can’t drum up huge anticipation for a new smartphone simply because it’s a new smartphone, you’ve gotta resort to more drastic measures – like building a ginormous phone in the...
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