2012

Can college students learn to collaborate using SkyDrive?

Early last November, Mike Torres and Omar Shahine, in a post on designing cloud storage services (read: SkyDrive), posted some telling statistics:

  • Today, less than 10% of college students consider using SkyDrive to access or share docs
  • Overwhelmingly, when students

An Xbox for the rest of us?

kinectA number of rumors have surfaced over the past few months about a next generation Xbox, and about Microsoft’s push into the living room using the popular gaming, and now entertainment system.  In fact, a few months ago we speculated

Skype coming soon to Windows Phone (or is it?) – updated

logo_skype_webIn another bit of what Microsoft calls “momentum”, and we think of as “non-news”, a flurry of posts reported yesterday that according to a video interview posted by “Rob from the Microsoft Social Media Marketing team”, a Skype app for …

Can a Google+ backlash help Bing?

Google -LogoThere’s been a bit of a tempest in a teapot brewing this week as Google introduced what it’s calling “Search Plus Your World”.  The feature, which in some respects is similar to the way Bing uses Facebook interactions to show …

Microsoft and LG agree on a patent deal for Android and Chrome OS

Microsoft has announced that today they have signed a patent agreement with LG that that covers “LG’s tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome OS Platform”. Microsoft and LG are not sharing the details of …

CES 2012: Two new Nokia apps for Windows Phone coming soon – Nokia Transport and Nokia City Lens

Nokia TransportDuring Nokia World 2011 back in October last year, along with the announcement of the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, Nokia also announced four new Windows Phone apps – Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Music and Nokia Pulse

Microsoft restructuring its marketing efforts

News is out today that Microsoft is apparently planning a restructuring of its marketing operations, according to an article in Bloomberg News.  While the move may cut “hundreds” of jobs, it is apparently aimed primarily at restructuring the “CMG”, …

2012 is a very important year for Microsoft and it starts it with a bang

Kip has just published a post about how Microsoft has started the year with a thud following its CES keynote. I have to agree that the keynote was both surreal in places and uninformative for the majority, offering nothing …

In a year full of promise (and risk), Microsoft starts it off with a thud

tweetchoirThis was Microsoft’s last CES keynote, after a 14 year run of opening the consumer electronics event, and the new year, in January in Las Vegas.  In a year that promises Windows 8, renewed hope for Windows Phone with …

The Nokia Lumia 900 press event video from CES

Nokia has just posted the 23 minute video of today’s press event from earlier today at CES.  If you want to relive all the details (it wasn’t webcast live), or if you’re just a big Stephen Elop fan, here it …