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Newly registered Microsoft trademark may hint at longer Google offensive

February 05, 2012   Alex Wilhelm

It’s always fun to watch a tech squabble, and the recent few rounds between Google and Microsoft have delivered mightily. Microsoft, gleeful over the public shellacking that Google is currently enduring over it privacy policies, took some very low-cost, and low-tech pot…

Apple is saying “No” to ARM based MacBooks, focusing on iPads

February 04, 2012   Drew Olanoff

Just in case you were wondering if Apple would start making lower-priced MacBook airs and other mobile devices based on the ARM chip set, ala Microsoft, the company has no interest according to a report by AppleInsider.
Citi analysts recently…

Amazon nabs Windows Phone’s Developer Experience lead for the Kindle team

February 03, 2012   Harrison Weber

Brandon Watson, the leader of the Developer Experience team for Windows Phone 7, is leaving Microsoft for Amazon. Watson had worked for and left Microsoft in the past, and it isn’t surprising that he left a second time, considering that his…

Microsoft signals Zune may not be dead after all

February 03, 2012   Alex Wilhelm

Fresh off the leaked Windows Phone 8 news that seemed to signal the end of Zune as we know it, Microsoft has a new deal out that seems to paint a very different picture.
Let’s go back a few days…

This week at Microsoft: Windows Phone 8, ARM, and Google

February 03, 2012   Alex Wilhelm

While the rest of the tech world has had a singular focus this week (Facebook’s filing to go public), Microsoft has been busy stirring up all sorts of narratives. It was a bit of a time getting them all straight, but…

Nokia’s domination of Q4 Windows Phone sales laid bare

February 03, 2012   Alex Wilhelm

Just two weeks ago we brought you figures that showed Nokia as controlling some 45% of second generation Windows Phone handset unit sales. New data out today confirms that early number, estimating that in the fourth quarter Nokia soaked up…

Skype for Windows Phone may finally launch by month’s end

February 03, 2012   Matt Brian

Microsoft could launch Skype for Windows Phone by the end of the month, after it was reported by The Verge that it has already begun seeding a test version of the app to its Windows Phone Marketplace for employees to…

You Can Now Pre-Order the Nokia Lumia 900 at Microsoft Retail Stores

February 03, 2012   Stan Schroeder

If you live near a Microsoft retail store, you can now pre-order a Nokia Lumia 900 with a $25 down payment, the Verge reports.
Unfortunately, even if you do that, you still won’t know how much the device will…

I switched to Bing on my iPhone and I kind of liked it

February 03, 2012   Matthew Panzarino

By the time that Microsoft announced its Bing search engine in 2009, Google had long since become a verb and several failed attempts at the search game were under the bridge. But Bing was something different, a visually appealing and more…

Microsoft Has Huge Changes in Store for Windows Phone 8 [REPORT]

February 02, 2012   Peter Pachal

Brace yourself, Windows Phone users, because everything’s going to change.
An internal Microsoft video that was supposedly leaked to a website reveals that the entire mobile operating system will be revamped later this year to better integrate it with…

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