At today’s “Microsoft Big Picture” event in Melbourne, Australia, Microsoft apparently announced that Lync, Microsoft’s corporate instant messaging client, will be coming to Windows Phone, Android, Blackberry, and “iDevices” within the next 4 weeks.

The news was tweeted out …

Joe Marini, who was fired from Microsoft after tweeting about the at the time unreleased Nokia 800, has landed at Google, according to, of course, a tweet by Marini this morning:

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The former Principal Program Manager for the …

Nokia is set to make a big splash here in the US, with a big presence at CES in Las Vegas in January, and a US launch expected soon after (if not right from CES).  We’re expecting at least …

Remember that Windows Phone device that was accidentally leaked in an official promotional video from Nokia just a few days ago? Well images of that device has just leaked to the web again, this time by Pocketnow.com. The website …

This seems to be a nice surprise, but today an article on Forbes reported that Amazon is currently eyeing the mobile market, with plans to launch a Windows-based smartphone device in Q4 2012. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

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Ok, so the Windows Phone update story got off to a rocky start.  In case you don’t remember, early last year, Windows Phone’s first set of updates, code named “NoDo” didn’t go so well, especially at all at first.  Communication …

So the Windows Phone “Mango” update (Build 7720) was released not long ago to the public, and today reports are coming in that Microsoft is already rolling out a minor update to its Windows Phone OS, bumping the version number …

Just as we reported that Nokia is planning to produce more higher-end phones in 2012, an official promotional video on Nokia’s YouTube channel (now removed) was spotted by MyNokiaBlog which showed a yet to be revealed Windows Phone device. …

Nokia and Microsoft’s relationship might get even closer in 2012, expanding beyond the collaboration with Windows Phone and Bing, but towards Windows 8-based tablets as well. According to French newspaper Les Echos (via WMPU), Paul Amsellem, head of Nokia …

This morning, we posted on a Business Insider report from the Microsoft Annual Meeting quoting Steve Ballmer in regards to Windows 8 and Windows Phone.  Apparently the BI report caused quite a flurry since then, as Microsoft PR scrambled to …