Microsoft risks ceding the smartphone market. Its apparent decision to delay the release of Windows Mobile 7 could be the final nail in the coffin of its mobile ambitions. Given that computing is going mobile, that’s a big problem for the software maker
Never in the history of the computer industry has a product launch been this hyped. Not even Apple’s launch of…
omputer maker Apple has beaten analysts’ estimates thanks to record sales of Macintosh computers, sending the share nearly 3% higher in after-hours trading on Monday. The company, which is expected to unveil a tablet computing device at a press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday
[Best of the Web — Monday, 25 January 2010] We didn’t attack Google, China says: China has dismissed suggestions that…
Online retailer Amazon.com is opening its Kindle e-book reader to third-party application developers. The announcement comes less than a week before Apple is expected to announce a tablet device that will compete with Amazon in the e-book market
When Apple introduced the iPhone in January 2007, some commentators were quick to write obituaries for the BlackBerry. Three years…
[Best of the Web — 20 January 2010] Bill Gates joins Twitter: Within hours of joining Twitter, former Microsoft CEO…
[Best of the Web — Monday, 18 January 2010] Nokia, Apple step up war of words: The fight between Nokia…
Welcome to our new “Best of the Web” daily feature, in which we summarise the big tech stories from around the world. Videogames are big business. If you were in any doubt of that, consider that the Christmas season’s big blockbuster, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, has just exceeded US$1bn in sales. It’s estimated that the game has sold more than 15m units since launch on 10 November 2009
In less than a fortnight, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take to a stage in San Francisco to unveil one of the most eagerly awaited consumer electronics products in history. Can the brains behind the iPod and the iPhone deliver the goods once again?
