The folks in Redmond must be feeling relieved about getting their taxes done (today, April 15th, is the deadline for paying your federal income taxes here in the US), as not only has Skype for Windows Phone 8 updated, …

Another Skype update (is this becoming a thing? regular updates from a Microsoft product?) for Windows Phone just hit the Windows Phone Store, this one coming hot on the heels of last month’s update, which brought back People …

Are you a Pinterest user?  Pinterest, “a tool for collecting and organizing things you love”, launched in March, 2010, and has grown to be the 3rd largest social networking site in the US (behind only Facebook and Twitter) according …

Here we go again, another day, and another negative ad campaign coming from Microsoft, this time attacking supposed privacy problems with Android phones.  Carrying on with the “Scroogled” theme, where Microsoft, apparently unable to make much of a …

Last month we exclusively reported one of the new security features coming to Microsoft account – enhanced account aliases, aimed to replace the account renaming feature currently in place. Whilst Microsoft has recently silently switched back on the account renaming …

Microsoft and Ericsson announced today that Microsoft is selling its Mediaroom IPTV platform to Ericsson, a deal to be completed in the second half of this year.  Mediaroom currently powers 22 million set-top boxes in 11 million households, and …

It seems like Nokia is hot in the news again. Yesterday we reported a leak of the specifications of the Nokia “Catwalk” device, said to be coming in May this year with a significantly slimmer and lighter aluminium body. Today …

We first heard rumors of a couple of new, lighter Nokia devices back in January, and now, according to a set of tweets (noted by WMPowerUser) by Italian mobile phones guy @flapic (“Flavio”), we can now add …

Despite the fact that Sony has already announced their next-generation console, the Playstation 4, Microsoft remains as tight-lipped about the new Xbox as ever. Outside of the acquisition of the (as of this writing) still unpopulated XboxEvent.com domain, virtually nothing …

Yesterday Microsoft released their new updated version of an online calendar, offering a clean new interface and a basic set of features as part of Outlook.com. We called it a “nice little calendar”, and it is. What it is, …