Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which was itself fined billions by the European Commission’s antitrust department, senses blood in that department’s investigation in to Google’s dominance – it has submitted a six-pronged complaint to the ongoing inquiry… Tweet This Post

One year after the initial launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft decided to share some stats about the platform on its Windows Phone Developer Blog.Looking at the cold, hard numbers only, the stats look like this: 11,500 apps for the platform (7,500 of which are paid apps) and 36,000 developers (with 1,200 newly registered developers [...]

As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) kicks off its “marketing leadership summit” the company has some good news and some not so good news: AdAge is reporting that Mich Mathews, a two-decade veteran of the company, is preparing to leave this summer… Tweet This Post

RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has followed fellow handset makers HTC and Samsung into the arms of Intellectual Property Ventures, signing a deal with the patent-holding company founded by Microsoft’s former CTO, Nathan Myhrvold (pictured) and its former chief architect, Edward Jung… Tweet This Post

These days Paul Allen is largely known for his ridiculously oversized yacht, his lawsuits, and his quest for commercial space flight, but of course it was co-founding Microsoft with Bill Gates that gave him the billions necessary to do all that fun stuff in the first place… Tweet This Post

A conclusion for Captain Obvious to draw, this is not. As with most mega-corp job postings, the wording in Microsoft’s latest is just obfuscated enough to keep us guessing, but a few key phrases have us (as well as ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley) on edge waiting for the next big thing in cloud storage… Tweet This [...]

We’d say this was getting silly but that would imply that it wasn’t already. Microsoft and Apple are still at each other’s throat over the latter’s trademark application for the term “App Store,” with Microsoft now bringing in a Dr… Tweet This Post

Of all the battlefields we’ve witnessed in the browser wars, this one’s never really crossed our minds before: energy efficiency. Yes, the power efficiency of a piece of software, not hardware, is being touted by Microsoft as a differentiating feature for its fresh new Internet Explorer 9… Tweet This Post

Microsoft has made many claims about IE9′s speed, but now the company is saying the latest version of its browser also bests the competition in terms of energy use.Based on several tests conducted by Microsoft, it would seem that IE9 makes fewer demands on a computer’s battery — at least in certain scenarios… Tweet This [...]

Is Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) turning into Palm (NSDQ: PALM), the next big prize in the mobile industry’s consolidation? Two of the most important companies in the prehistoric era of the mobile computer (late 90s to mid 2000s) were Palm, inventor of the Palm Pilot and nurturer of the Treo, and RIM, which introduced [...]

Well, it looks Eric Schmidt wasn’t far off when he said recently that Microsoft is bigger competition than Facebook for Google — at least when it comes to overall brand value, that is. According to BrandFinance’s latest annual ranking, Google has just barely edged out Microsoft for the title of most valuable brand in the [...]

It’s been rumored for a while now that China’s Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) is keen to follow rival search giant Google (NSDQ: GOOG) into the smartphone space with its own operating system for mobiles and tablets, a la Android… Tweet This Post