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Microsoft rakes in the cash with 3rd Qtr results: will it continue?

microsoft-logoYesterday, Microsoft released their 3rd Quarter Earnings statement, and reported a stellar quarter.  This morning, $MSFTs  US stock market price is up over 5.5% on the news (and up over 20% since last April – you can follow some …

Nokia Lumia sales are “mixed”, will Apollo come to the rescue?

nokia 900Nokia released its first quarter earnings today, and as expected, the news isn’t good.  Posting a $1.7 billion quarterly loss, on net sales that were down 30%, Nokia continues to struggle with “greater than expected competitive challenges”, and “mixed’ …

Windows Phone 8 to all current Windows Phones? Not so fast

Earlier today we reported that WMPowerUser posted a transcribed video interview snippet from Portuguese site Zwame.pt, quoting a Microsoft evangelist as saying that “all actual devices will get upgrade to the next major version of Windows Phone (we´re talking about …

Windows Phone 8 coming to all current phones, says evangelist

In a video interview with Portuguese Windows Phone Evangelist Nuno Silva published by Portuguese site Zwame.pt last month, and noticed by WMPowerUser, comes news that all current Windows Phones will be able to be upgraded to Windows Phone 8 …

SkyDrive releases ODF support, more: promises “bigger things coming soon”

As a few of our commenters on this morning’s SkyDrive post noticed, the SkyDrive team, via their Twitter account, have released “a few cool things”:

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The link, which not coincidentally is using the new “sdrv.ms” URL shortener, …

Google Drive on the horizon: can SkyDrive measure up?

Google-DriveThe Next Web considered themselves lucky yesterday to be on the receiving end of a draft release, purportedly from a Google partner,  giving away “a wealth of information” on Google’s upcoming competitor to Dropbox and SkyDrive.  That service, which …

Bing Maps, Windows Phone Translator App updated

A pair of posts on the Bing blogs today announced some new features for both Bing Maps and the Bing Translator App for Windows Phone.

First, with Bing Maps, the nearly 900 venue maps are now much easier to …

Xbox press conference set for E3: June 4th, 10am

e3After Sony’s E3 press conference announcement yesterday, Microsoft has today announced their press event time and date for this year’s E3 conference: Monday June 4th at 10am, according to a post on the Examiner.com and elsewhere.  Even though Microsoft has

Could Microsoft sell Bing to Facebook?

facebingOK this is pretty far-fetched, but according to a post on Barron’s Tech Trader Daily blog, CNBC editor Gary Kaminsky “made passing reference to a report that apparently claims Microsoft might be considering giving its “Bing” search operations to …

Bing to charge subscription fees for Search API

WindowsAzureMarketplaceLogoIn an email letter sent to Bing developers today, and published on the Bing Developer blog, the Bing Developer team has announced significant changes to the Bing Search API access model, which is moving from a free service to …