Nokia outlines its plans: “MeeGo computers”, streamlining

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 11th, 2011 at 1:30 am

Nokia-Microsoft: some details from “forward looking statements”

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 11th, 2011 at 12:00 am

Nokia to form Strategic Partnership with Microsoft

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

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
February 10th, 2011 at 11:45 pm

IE9 Release Candidate officially released

If you haven’t downloaded it already, the IE9 RC is now officially up for grabs, with an IE9 blog post from Dean Hachamovitch explaining what’s new in the RC.  With some very nice tabbed browsing improvements (along with a …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
February 10th, 2011 at 9:34 am

Channel 9 posts IE9 RC videos

Already up at Channel 9 are some videos highlighting improvements in IE9 RC.  Our early favorite? – the ability to create pinned sites with multiple tabs!  We’ve just installed the RC here, but so far so good, and we’ve noticed …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 10th, 2011 at 8:52 am

IE9 Release Candidate available now

A quick heads up that as usual, with an announcement due later this morning on the availability  of IE9 RC at an event in San Francisco, the download links have gone live early.  Tom Warren at WinRumors.com has more, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 10th, 2011 at 8:14 am

Nokia and WP7: the rumor mill heats up

This whole Windows Phone to Nokia thing is gaining some traction, as more reports are coming out linking the new Microsoft mobile OS to Nokia, who even as their platform “burns”, still control much of the market share worldwide for …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 9th, 2011 at 11:05 pm

Hey, Bing has a Like Button!

We just fired up Bing to look for a Nokia logo for our last post, and noticed what we think is something new on the Bing home page, a Facebook Like Button:

bing-like

The button allows you to “Like” the day’s …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 9th, 2011 at 9:59 am

Reports: Meego is out, is WP7 in at Nokia?

Nokia-LogoReuters is reporting a rather cryptic report today that two of its sources are saying that Nokia has ended development of the first Meego powered Nokia phone before it even launched. Nokia has refused comment on the report, and the …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 9th, 2011 at 9:43 am

Reading the WP7 update tea leaves: no new apps, Zune update

While we still have no official idea of when we’ll see the first Windows Phone 7 update, we’ve noticed a couple of hopeful developments, which may or may not signal an impending Windows Phone update.

First, for the past two …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 8th, 2011 at 3:07 pm