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Nokia and Microsoft Launch $24 Million App Development Center [Nokia]





Microsoft and Nokia are continuing their love-in, today announcing plans to invest a cool $24 million into a new app development center, to be based in Finland. More »



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Microsoft and Nokia to invest $24 million in three-year AppCampus app development program in Finland
Microsoft and Nokia are set to continue building their close relationship by agreeing to invest up to €9 million ($12 million) each in Finland’s mobile economy by way of the new AppCampus development program at Aalto Universit, over the course of th...
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The Fanboy and the Phone: A Love/Hate Story [Rant]





In the ‘90's, no nerd-debate was more contentious than that over the "Best" computer operating system. Were you Windows or were you Mac (or Linux)? Rifts formed in communities, hateful epithets were hurl...
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Departing Yahoo Product Exec Pops Up at eHealth
Top Yahoo product exec Bill Shaughnessy, who recently left the Silicon Valley Internet giant, is joining eHealth as president and COO. Shaughnessy, who will also become a board member at the online health insurance company, was SVP of product management a...
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Microsoft Talks Screen Resolution in Windows 8, Suggests "Retina"-esque Tablets

Microsoft's David Washington has penned another informational tome on the Building Windows 8 blog, this one about Windows 8 and its support for varying screen resolutions. The above chart lists the common (but not the only) resolutions that Microsof...
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Here's How Windows 8 Will Create a Singular User Experience Across Different Screen Sizes [Windows 8]





Microsoft has been adamant that design is central to the development of Windows 8, and early builds have proven that to be true. But so far, we've only really seen Windows 8 on a couple devices, and Micros...
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Microsoft drops lawsuit and ITC complaint against TiVo over video technology patents
Having originally sued and initiated a complaint to the ITC against the maker of the popular TiVo boxes, Microsoft has dropped all of its litigation against the company, ending threats of a ban that could have seen its set-top boxes from being imported to...
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Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7 in China, but handset makers, operators hold the details
Microsoft has officially launched its Windows Phone 7 platform in China at an event in Beijing, where it revealed that it will partner with no fewer than four handset makers.
The event saw a China Telecom executive speak as a number of Windows Phone devic...
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What Does Dan Loeb Want for His $1B -- Lotsa Yahoo News, That's What!

Last week, Yahoo’s activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point, the New York hedge fund that is waging a proxy fight against the Silicon Valley Internet giant, made a regulatory filing noting that it had spent $971.1 million to acquire 70.5 millio...
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StatCounter dings Microsoft for endorsing Net Application’s market share data
Microsoft is quite fond of tooting its own horn when it comes to the performance of Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7, and the decline (at last) of Internet Explorer 6. However, it has a favorite place to get the data that it promotes: Net Applications.
No...
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Vaunted Yahoo Techie Departs for Microsoft (Surprised? Me Neither.)

One of Yahoo’s most respected researchers, Raghu Ramakrishnan, who is the author of one of the most famous database textbooks, “Database Management Systems,” has left the Silicon Valley company to join Microsoft. He was also critical to...
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Brilliant: Use the Surface 2 as a light table
We love Microsoft’s Big Ass Table Surface project, and its latest incarnation, the Surface 2, is the apple our eye.
However, until just a short time ago, we fretted that the hardware would suffer from a very stiff application drought; who would deve...
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Microsoft snags Thom Gruhler from McCann to run Windows Phone’s marketing
Love it or hate it, it’s undeniable that by sheer brute force, Microsoft has carved out a place for Windows Phone in the mobile market. Component of that accomplishment has been a massive advertising campaign, with sums that boggle the mind employed...
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Microsoft fires two Bing marketing execs for ethics violations
Bing just lost two of its marketing honchos, Microsoft has confirmed, acknowledging that they have been fired. Eric Hadley and Sean Carver, Microsoft has said in a statement, are out the door:
We can confirm that as the result of an investigation, Eric Ha...
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Windows 8 to wrap this summer, go on sale in October
According to sources speaking to Bloomberg, Windows 8 is set to be completed this summer, and go on sale this October. Unlike it has been variously rumored, Windows 8 will launch on both Intel, and ARM systems, putting to bed speculation that ARM machines...
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Localized Microsoft WP7 surfaces 2 days before China launch, looking less than local
Microsoft is all set to launch its Windows Phone 7 operating system (OS) to China on March 21 but, there is a surprise, as the ‘localized’ handset isn’t looking particularly local.
According a hands-on look at the HTC Triumph, China̵...
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Windows Phone weekend roundup: A sales uptick?
We don’t do too many roundups here at TNW, aside from my weekly Microsoft entry, but this weekend we are making a small exception. Over the past 24 hours, a great number of Windows Phone tidbits have dropped, and while each is not quite worth its ow...
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Why Mike Daisey Lied About Foxconn According to Mike Daisey [Foxconn]





Mike Daisey lied his tits off in public radio program This American Life. He basically made up a lot of stuff about Foxconn. TAL had to retract the whole thing, but Mike says his lies were all for a good c...
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CDMA Nokia Lumia 800 passes Chinese certification, gets photographed
Nokia’s relentless motion to bring its Lumia line of handsets to every part of the world continues. Recently, the Lumia 800, in CDMA form, made it past the regulators in China. The handset appears prepared to land on the China Telecom network.
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media

In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production company BermanBraun.
As part of the deal, BermanBraun will g...
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Its demise imminent, Zune finds spiritual longevity in Office 15′s design
I’ve intended to write a post on the topic of Zune’s impact on the Metro design aesthetic for some time, but it took musings from Paul Thurrott to jog me into action.
He has an excellent post up, comparing elements of Zune’s desktop clie...
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Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari confirms Nokia’s tablet plans, admits “we are working on it”
Reports of a new Nokia tablet have been seemingly confirmed by one of the company’s most prominent employees, after design chief Marko Ahtisaari confirmed that the company was “working on it” and that he was spending up to a third of his...
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To Stanch Layoffs, Yahoo Has Been Shopping Its Ad Technology Platforms to Google, Microsoft and Others

In an effort to minimize the impact of massive layoffs that Yahoo’s top management has been planning, according to sources close to the situation, one of the latest ideas to save costs and presumably jobs by new CEO Scott Thompson is to sell off mu...
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Microsoft shows off some gooey NUI goodness on the Surface 2
Well, we love this. I don’t know if you are a space junkie (if not, try this, it will help), but if you cannot vibe with the following clip, please check in your nerd badge on your way out.
To refresh your memory, Microsoft used to build a product c...
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Microsoft releases Patch Tuesday updates, this time with shiny charts
Our continuing coverage of Patch Tuesday, a monthly ritual in which Microsoft releases security updates to its products, today picks back up with the formal availability of March’s bulletins.
And just for fun, it turns out that Microsoft’s new...
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Windows 9 Predictions: Looking Forward [Windows 9]





How do you predict the future? It's easy: There's going to be a Windows 9 in a few years. As for what might be inside Microsoft's future operating system, however, that's a whole ‘nother ballgame. More&...
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls "Puzzling" (Including Filing)

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
The attack by the Silicon Valley Internet icon against perhaps the most powerful consumer social networkin...
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Microsoft Can Make Your Voice Speak Foreign Languages [Microsoft]





Ever wonder what you'd sound like speaking German? Or maybe Mandarin? Microsoft Research has a new technology they're cooking up which will take the sound of your voice and synthesize it as part a spoken l...
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Nokia reportedly to launch 10-inch dual-core Qualcomm Windows 8 tablet by Q4
Finnish mobile maker Nokia has yet again been linked with an expansion of its agreement with Microsoft to launch a new 10-inch Windows 8 tablet in the fourth quarter of 2012, Digitimes reports.
Nokia, which is pushing ahead with its new range of Windows P...
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Microsoft set to trump Apple as China Mobile confirms its upcoming WP7 device will support 3G
Microsoft is set to get a significant boost in China after the country’s largest mobile operator, China Mobile, confirmed that it is all set to release a Windows Phone 7 device that is compatible with its 3G network, a feat that the iPhone is yet to...
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Searching for Market Share: Google Up, Microsoft's Bing Up, Yahoo … Not Up

According to the latest comScore report, search dominator Google continued to do so in the U.S. market, upping its share to 66.4 percent in February, from 66.2 percent in the month before.
This marked the third month Google’s search share rose, imp...
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Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat
Even though our D: All Things Digital conference always sells out well in advance every year without our announcing even one single speaker (like this one, too), it’s the action on stage that truly matters.
And in 2012 — which also happens to ...
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Nokia shipping Lumia 900 handsets to developers, likely to spark hype
This is one of those good and bad news posts, where I combine a bit of tragedy with a sparkly object to keep you confused. Here’s the sad part: the Nokia Lumia 900 might be delayed in the US market until April 22nd. That hurts.
The good news is that...
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In-Depth with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Windows has changed a lot since Windows 95 ushered in the modern era of the desktop operating system almost two decades ago—the underlying technology that makes Windows what it is has completely changed since those early days to keep pace with new...
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Beginners' Guide to MongoDB With Node.js on Windows Azure
Beginners' Guide to MongoDB With Node.js on Windows Azure: A very detailed guide to getting started with MongoDB and Node.js on Windows Azure:
Add MongoDB support to an existing Windows Azure service that was created using the Windows Azure SDK for Node.j...
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Is OnLive Violating Microsoft's Licensing Agreements? [Onlive]





Though you might expect a company whose business model is based around sharing installations of Windows via the web to have thought about licensing... you'd be wrong. Microsoft is claiming that OnLive&mda...
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Want to own a Sony Ericsson prototype running Windows Phone? Now you can (via eBay)
Before Sony bought out Ericsson’s stake in the company, Sony Ericsson had flaunted with the idea to introduce smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform.
Whilst the devices never made the mass market, an enterprising eBay user has ...
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Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox will reportedly drop disc drives, launching in 2013
Microsoft has stayed quiet on its plans to launch a successor to its wildly popular Xbox 360 console, but a new report today has suggested that the company will do away with the traditional disc drive for its next-generation console and launch in 2013.
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The Windows Mobile Marketplace is set to die on May 9th
Hate Windows Phone? Love Windows Mobile? There must be a few of you out there, clinging to your tired UI and terrible hardware. Listen up: the show is almost over.
Here’s a new fact: Microsoft is shuttering the Windows Mobile Marketplace in May, ess...
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Here's What Won't Work in Cheaper Windows Phones [Windows Phone]





They good news: Microsoft is loosening its strict spec standards to push some highly affordable Windows Phones to the market. The bad news? Those phones are going to be gimpy little crud boxes. But hey, th...
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Exclusive: High-Ranking Yahoo Product Exec Shaughnessy Departs
Bill Shaughnessy, who is Yahoo’s SVP of product management, is leaving the company, according to an internal memo he sent out this morning to staff. The former Microsoft exec came to the Silicon Valley Internet giant in mid-2010, part of the team as...
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Here’s what Windows Phone handsets running Tango won’t be able to do
By now you must know about Tango, a coming update to the Windows Phone smartphone line that will lower its minimum system specifications. By doing so, Tango will allow for cheaper handsets to be built, opening new markets for the platform. More markets, i...
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Why Apple’s latest iPad moves cloud the tablet future of Windows 8
Unless you’ve been dead for the day, you must know the news: not only is there a new, greatly improved iPad on the way, but the iPad 2, the iteration of the device that was current up to today, will continue to be sold by Apple at a reduced price po...
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Windows 8: 20 Tips and Tricks [Windows 8 Tips]





What do you do with a new operating system? You roll up your shirt sleeves and jump elbow-deep into every part of the OS you can get your hands on. You make manual registry tweaks to open up hidden element...
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Building a Windows 8 Metro app? Bing has a fresh SDK for you
One of the more interesting, if underdeveloped apps that shipped with the Windows 8 Consumer Preivew is a little program called ‘Maps,’ which uses Bing technology to providing mapping tools for the operating system. It’s a slick app, if ...
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Microsoft promises to fix Windows Phone dev on Windows 8′s Consumer Preview
Developers of Windows Phone applications who decided to install the Windows 8 Consumer Preview are in a tight spot: their development tools are having a hard time working with the new test build of the operating system.
Microsoft has responded. The compan...
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Microsoft-commissioned IDC study says cloud computing will create 14 million new jobs by 2015
The future for cloud service providers is very bright, at least if a new report (PDF) from research firm IDC is to be believed.
Commissioned by software giant Microsoft (which obviously also offers a range of cloud solutions), the study claims spending o...
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HTC beats Nokia to launch China’s first WP7 ‘Tango’ device, the Triumph
Windows Phone 7 has begun its invasion of China and it is HTC that has put its flag into the ground with the pre-launch of the Triumph, which has entered the market first, according to a report from Engadget.
The Triumph, which is better known as Titan in...
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Microsoft inks deal to bring Windows Phone to the Middle East & North Africa
Microsoft has entered into an an agreement with Kuwait-based telecommunications company, Zain which will see Windows Mobile devices distributed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Concluding the deal in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congre...
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Google’s CEO Larry Page is pretty stoked that Chrome users are smarter than IE users
According to the number puzzle website Calcudoku, Chrome users appear to have the highest level of numerical intelligence when it comes to solving the puzzles on its site.
The company recently published a study based on 2010 and 2011 usage data and parsed...
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