Competition in the consumer mobile operating system space is starting to shift, according to a new report from IDC.
- By Herb Torrens
- January 26, 2010
Microsoft has tacitly acknowledged that it will have something to say after all about its next-generation mobile platform, including a possible Windows Phone in March.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 20, 2010
Ballmer's talk at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show consisted primarily of incremental announcements and positioning statements, but there were no major surprises.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 07, 2010
Google on Tuesday launched the Nexus One, a touch-based smartphone that boasts many of the features of Apple's iPhone as well as some new features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 06, 2010
Smartphones will grow exponentially in the coming years. If you're betting on one mobile platform, you may want to rethink that strategy.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 01, 2010
Google is reportedly considering offering its own mobile phone based on the Android operating system as early as next year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 14, 2009
Microsoft is planning to rev up the mobility market under its "Windows phone" brand.
- By Herb Torrens
- December 01, 2009
Though smart phone sales grew by 12 percent over the past year, the share of new devices shipping with Windows Mobile have plunged, according to Gartner.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 17, 2009
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding in October, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 23, 2009
Microsoft sent a letter to T-Mobile Sidekick users claiming that most of the customer data thought to be lost during a network failure is now being restored.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2009
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding on Tuesday, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 06, 2009
Inaugural event in Redmond hopes to engage developers of mobile applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 18, 2009
Microsoft and Nokia are staking a new claim to the mobile phone space with a global alliance announced today.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 12, 2009
The U.S. Census Bureau is deploying the Windows Mobile operating system on 140,000 PDAs being used for the 2010 census.
- By Trudy Walsh
- July 22, 2009
Microsoft executive Bill Koefoed answered some questions about the software giant's business prospects on Wednesday at an investment firm-sponsored technology conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 10, 2009
At the Computex event in Taiwan this week, Microsoft presented its vision of a mobile computing world that will include "consumer Internet devices" alongside netbooks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 05, 2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points (APs) and nearly 550 clients in seven different financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either open (unprotected) or used WEP encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 26, 2009
Facing strong competition from Apple and Google, Microsoft looks to re-tool Windows Mobile for the enterprise market.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- May 01, 2009
In a bid to entice application providers to build and distribute their wares on the recently announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Microsoft today revealed plans to offer tooling and guidance on its developer portal.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 11, 2009
Microsoft over the weekend acknowledged it is planning a service that will allow users of its Windows Mobile operating system to synchronize data on their devices with the Web.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 09, 2009