Kip has just published a post about how Microsoft has started the year with a thud following its CES keynote. I have to agree that the keynote was both surreal in places and uninformative for the majority, offering nothing …
In a year full of promise (and risk), Microsoft starts it off with a thud
This was Microsoft’s last CES keynote, after a 14 year run of opening the consumer electronics event, and the new year, in January in Las Vegas. In a year that promises Windows 8, renewed hope for Windows Phone with …
The Nokia Lumia 900 press event video from CES
Nokia has just posted the 23 minute video of today’s press event from earlier today at CES. If you want to relive all the details (it wasn’t webcast live), or if you’re just a big Stephen Elop fan, here it …
Watch Steve Ballmer’s last keynote live from CES
This time we’re not in Las Vegas, and not live blogging, but we’ll still be watching the CES keynote and you can too:
(the press conference is over, but you can watch the video on Microsoft News Center)
If …
Nokia announces 900 for AT&T, available “in the coming months”
At a press event at CES in Las Vegas today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage to announce the Nokia 900, the widely anticipated first “re-entry” for Nokia into the US smartphone market. The new phone, available “in the …
Can we get real about phone updates?
Yesterday Eric Hautala posted on the Windows Phone blog about the latest Windows Phone update, dubbed 8107, which, according to the Windows Phone website, addresses the disappearing keyboard issue, a Gmail sync issue, the location permissions issue, and a …
SkyDrive now supports geotags with Bing Maps
Windows Live SkyDrive was only recently updated back in November last year to Version 16.2 (Build 2955) with better sharing and file management functionalities (see the official change log here). Today we noticed that the SkyDrive team had released …
Xbox Live mobile gaming: coming to Android and iOS soon?
In early December, Microsoft released an Xbox Live app for iOS, along with an Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone, and now, according to a recent job posting on Microsoft Careers, they’re planning on bringing more Xbox Live …
Good news for Nokia and Windows Phone in the new year: will they sell 80 million phones in 2012?
The beginning of a new year is always a hopeful time, and two reports coming out this week are buoying the hopes (and the stock prices) of Nokia and Microsoft. First up, a report from Reuters that a Nokia handset …
Windows Phone update coming: can Microsoft leverage the 0.6%?
On the heels of news that Microsoft, Nokia, and the other hardware partners are ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, promotion, and payola, Windows Phone is getting ready to roll out another update, this …
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