Apple iPhone leaves Blackberry behind
Apple gained and Research In Motion continued to lose market share in handsets while Google’s Android software took more share, according to market researcher ComScore. According to the tracking firm ComScore, the Apple iPhone has taken 4th-place among handset manufacturers in the United States, surpassing RIM Blackberry. As RIM’s share of US mobile subscribers fell [...]
Nortel’s patents sold to group including RIM, Apple
Apple and Research In Motion (RIM) are part of a winning consortium of six companies buying bankrupt Nortel Networks‘ remaining portfolio of 6,000 patents and patent applications. The group includes Microsoft, Sweden’s Ericsson, EMCand Sony. The price – $4.5 billion (3.1 billion euros) – was about three times what the sale had been expected to raise, [...]
Angry Birds Game Added to Windows Phone 7
After several delays, Angry Birds is finally available to those with Windows Phone 7 devices. The app is now in the Windows Phone Marketplace. It’s free to try and $2.99 to purchase—”a few hours ahead of schedule and so fresh it hasn’t even been rated yet,” Microsoft said in a blog post. “Be the first—or [...]
Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Service
If there’s one thing Microsoft does indisputably better than any other tech company, it’s being fashionably late, and Office 365 is the perfect example. Almost five years after Google Docs first arrived and two years after it finally left its long beta test, Microsoft finally introduced Office 365, Redmond’s own cloud-based productivity suite. But is [...]
Office 365 Overview
Microsoft has just announced its Office 365 for Professionals suite, upping the online Office ante in the process. This is more or less a revamped version of what used to be the Business Productivity Online Suite, where the package will ship in two different forms that are more than willing to let you save and share [...]
Disneyland Adventures from E3 2011
Your living room is now the happiest place on earth, provided that you have an X-Box 360 with Kinect. Announced and demoed at the E3 conference at the LA Convention Center, Kinect Disneyland Adventure, utilizes the hands-free Kinect controller to give players the chance to walk, and fly, around digital Disneyland, “replicated to a fine [...]
Office 365 Launches in June
The rebranded edition of Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs is officially launching on June 28, a top company executive has revealed. Jon Roskill, corporate vice president for the worldwide partner group, has Tweeted that the beta label comes off the productivity and collaboration cloud on June 28, when it will become generally available. Microsoft spokespeople [...]