It’s no secret that Nokia is in trouble. It lost close to US$1,5bn in 2011, its market share, particularly in the profitable smartphone market, continues to plunge and its big bet — a partnership with Microsoft — has yet to produce significant revenues. So when I received a review model of Nokia’s newest phone, the Lumia 800
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Microsoft has gone after Google before in advertisements attacking its search and Gmail products, but now the software maker has launched a new off-kilter advertisement showing off Google Apps’ biggest weaknesses. The video, titled “Googlighting”, portrays the Google Apps productivity
After several leaks, Microsoft has confirmed that its SkyDrive cloud storage solution is about to receive a major update with desktop syncing, a SkyDrive Metro app for Windows 8, secure remote access and other helpful additions. There has been much movement in the
The Microsoft team has created a new logo for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, and the results aren’t pretty. You might say this is Microsoft’s “Gap moment”, that uncomfortable situation in which a company chooses a new logo that takes away from its history and chooses blandness over anything striking
Networking technology giant Cisco has filed an appeal with the European Union over last October’s approval of Microsoft’s US$8,5bn acquisition of Skype. Cisco, along with Italian voice-over-Internet Protocol provider Messagenet, is challenging the decision to approve the merger because the European
Mozilla has decided to begin work on a touch-enabled version of its popular Firefox Web browser for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system, the company revealed yesterday. Windows 8 allows companies to develop applications for its touch-based Metro interface as well as
Exactly one year to the day since Stephen Elop unveiled Nokia’s new strategy and its partnership with Microsoft, TechCentral brings you a special edition of the TalkCentral podcast: a roundtable interview with the Nokia CEO himself. Listen as Elop talks about the future of the Windows Phone ecosystem
Corporate IT departments have a big challenge on their hands. Their users are bringing all sorts of newfangled devices like smartphones and tablets into the work environment and expecting them to interact seamlessly with their companies’ IT systems. Employees love these gadgets and
Microsoft’s plan to bring Windows to ARM chips has been a curious endeavor, mainly because the company hasn’t offered many specifics about how the new version of Windows will differ from the traditional x86 and 64-bit versions of the operating system. That all changed on Thurdsay with
Kinect, Microsoft’s remote game console that sits in the corner of the room and registers a user’s intentions from his gestures, will be the shape of things to come if Chris Harrison, a researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University has his way