Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. issued results yesterday that topped analysts’ estimates, showing that buoyant business demand is girding the largest technology companies against Europe’s debt crisis and a consumer-spending slump. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 rose as most of the reports were positive but the Nasdaq was [...]
Research In Motion (RIM) surged as much as 12.6 per-cent in German trading after reports said Microsoft Corp and Nokia mulled a joint bid, while Amazon. com considered buying the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone. RIM “turned down takeover overtures” from Amazon because it wanted to fix its shortcomings independently, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The [...]
Microsoft claims to have had it’s biggest sales week in Xbox history riding the momentum of Black Friday. The company has released a statement concerning their sales numbers for last week, where they claim to have sold nearly 1 million (960K) Xbox 360 consoles in the week. Alongside the massive Xbox 360 sales, Microsoft also [...]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates spoke to about a thousand students at the University of Washington’s School of Computer Sciences and Engineering Thursday. But the Microsoft co-founder also got a little birthday cupcake from his father Bill Gates Sr. Gates turns 56 Friday. William Henry Gates, III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, [...]
“In time for the holidays” has now been clarified to mean November 2nd. Nearly a month after T-Mobile initially unveiled the US version of the Windows Phone 7.5-containing HTC Radar, its Facebook page trumpeted the date along with its accompanying $100 cost attached to a two-year contract and after $50 mail-in rebate. So if this [...]
Microsoft can’t make up its mind on whether Zune hardware is dead or alive — or at least that’s the way it looks after a series of conflicting messages over the last couple days. Microsoft is flip-flopping more than a presidential politician, and it’s doing so in record time. The software giant came to [...]
Microsoft has confirmed that it will no longer be producing the Zune, wrapping up 5 years of production on the company’s Zune music player. The company confirmed late yesterday that it would no longer be producing Zune hardware, with Windows Phone now the focus of Redmond’s mobile music strategy. Microsoft’s Zune was never much [...]
Windows Phone BENCH was “one of the most comprehensive benchmarking apps [they've] seen so far.” Now, Windows Phone BENCH 2 is again closer to the full desktop benchmarks, with online charts, user profile or all the stats and of course in Windows Phone Metro experience. Now, we are awaiting new devices to compare and Mango [...]
