Along with all the news about Microsoft and Nokia, we’ve been seeing quite a few news items go by that seem to show interest for the Windows Phone developer platform, and interest in Windows Phone apps is picking up.

First …

Steve Ballmer just walked off the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, after delivering a bit of news, most of it known to some degree already, about upcoming advances for Windows Phone.

After pinning down the early “NoDo”, or …

The Nokia Press Briefing in Barcelona isn’t being broadcast live, but Steven Elop and Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President Marketing Nokia Mobile Phones, have been on stage, and of course news of the Microsoft / Nokia partnership dominates.  Elop said, …

If you remember, last year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona featured the unveiling of Windows Phone 7.  What will happen this year?  We just added a TweetBlender Twitter search for the hashtags #mwc and #mwc2011 in our sidebar so you …

In their press materials for the big announcement on Friday, Nokia and Microsoft featured a number of their brands in a collage of goodness about the partnership:

However one brand is conspicuously missing from the equation: Zune.  It doesn’t …

• Well one thing is for sure, the US stock market isn’t too happy with Nokia’s decision to go Windows Phone.  After hours trading late last night showed NOK off some 7 points, and the stock is currently down 14.71%, to

As it’s the middle of the night here in Seattle, we’ll leave you for the night with a quick recap of the highlights of this momentous announcement by Nokia and Microsoft that they are forming a strategic partnership which will …

Nokia has outlined its side of the brave new world we’re undertaking tonight, offering up some details about what’s to come for the mobile hardware giant.

First, as expected, Nokia is streamlining its executive staff and operations.  The first to …

The log-in to the Nokia webcast, due at 10:00 GMT today, requires that you agree to the “forward looking statements” before you get to the video page, and these are one set of small print you won’t want to …

The links to the Nokia webcast just went live, and the word is out, Microsoft and Nokia are creating  a strategic partnership.  According to a press release just issued by Microsoft, the proposed partnership would include these points:

Nokia would