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by Anndrew Vacca
Feb 07, 2012
OneNote, Microsoft's popular Office-bundled software, is now available in app form on the Android Market. OneNote allows users to take notes on the go, complete with photos, bullets, and t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 04, 2012
Brandon Watson, a major player in the resurrection of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, specifically in his work with developers, has taken a job with Amazon. Watson confirmed his departure Friday o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 01, 2012
Google, having already explained to the boys and girls inside the Beltway that they don't need to go all Chicken Little over its upcoming new consolidated privacy policy, today took aim at Redmo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 27, 2012
Jailbreaking or rooting your smartphone is currently "legal" under Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but that exemption is set to expire in 2012. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Fo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 12, 2012
We've already put the Samsung Galay Nexus up against the new Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 900, and now it's time to take a look at it next to the venerable HTC Titan II, announced Monday at the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 12, 2012
Microsoft says 70 percent of all Android phones sold in the U.S. are covered by its portfolio
Microsoft today announced that Korean smartphone (and everything else) manufacturer LG has signed a ...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 06, 2012
At this moment in time it's only our cousins over at WPCentral who get to enjoy the best Xbox Live mobile experience from Microsoft. But according to a recent job listing, that could be changing...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2011
Analytics firm ComScore just released a new batch of numbers, showing Android extending its lead over, well, everybody in the United States for September through November of 2011.
Out of the 91.4 m...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2011
Microsoft has won a partial victory in their dispute with Motorola over patents, but it's far from the outcome they would have liked. The International Trade Commission has ruled that some...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 18, 2011
What would a week in the mobile arena without legal drama be like? We have no idea, and probably never will. Today there's so much that we're just going to round it all up in one...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 14, 2011
The cat's out of the bag, thanks to Barnes & Noble's letters to the ITC about their dispute with Microsoft. Rather than roll over and pay Microsoft what they demand like some big n...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 08, 2011
Chinese company Huawei is the latest to find itself on the end of a chase from Microsoft over royalty payments from its Android products.
They confirmed on Monday that "negotiations ar...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 24, 2011
Verizon is officially pushing the Android 2.3 updates out to the Droid Pro and the Droid 2 Global over-the-air today. Besides the features you would expect from Gingerbread, the Droid 2 Global...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 24, 2011
Microsoft on Sunday -- you know, day press releases are typically sent out -- announced it had reached a patent licensing agreement with Compal over its tablets, phones, e-readers and any other devi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 14, 2011
Microsoft and Quanta Computer have signed (what we presume is a giant stack of legal papers) an agreement that protects and licenses Quanta by providing "broad coverage under Microsoft's pa...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 13, 2011
Google is in the middle of their Q3 earnings call, where they have announced that they are doing very well. During the Q&A, someone asked about the patent issues currently going on and what Goog...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 05, 2011
Microsoft announces wealth of new Xbox 360 content partners
Google TV's pretty much been a non-starter since it was announced at Google IO in 2010. Trouble with networks and other content pr...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Oct 03, 2011
Microsoft has released its official Hotmail app for Android, available now (finally!) in the Android Market. For the Hotmail faithful, the native Android experience has been far from perfect, so an ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2011
Samsung will pay Microsoft royalties for smartphones and tablets running Android. A cross-licensing deal reach between the two companies was announced Wednesday morning. And while that means both co...
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by Joshua Munoz
Sep 12, 2011
I've recently stumbled across Seven+ Android, which is an initiative to create apps that can replace default Android UI's and stuff to give your phone a more WP7 feel. The whole thing is pretty ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 08, 2011
Microsoft this morning announced it has reached licensing agreements with Acer and Viewsonic over the companies' Android devices. Terms of either agreement were not announced, but Viewsonic will pay r...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 31, 2011
Microsoft has released the Azure Toolkit for Android, providing an SDK and native libraries to support storage and authorization for its Windows Azure cloud-based development platform. This will...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Aug 30, 2011
ComScore has released its latest round of data, which tracks the smartphone market during the months of May, June, and July of 2011. During this time period, 82.2 million Americans owned a smart...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 23, 2011
Look at the list of Motorola smartphones that Microsoft has dragged out before the International Trade Commission in hopes of blocking future imports, and you can't help but chuckle. Oh, there are a ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 17, 2011
Say what you want about Bing on Android -- and we've said plenty -- but it's always been a pretty visually stunning app, and darned useful, too. It was never the app itself we had a problem with -- i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 04, 2011
Let's just break it down thusly:
Google SVP and chief legal officer David Drummond pens a blog post explaining the company's position in the current patent situation.
Microsoft's lawyer responds ....
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 04, 2011
"Your Honor, I present Exhibit A -- an e-mail I posted on Twitter." This, apparently, is where we now stand in the he said-she said battle that has become Google v. the World in regard...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 03, 2011
We've heard the cries. "Why isn't Google fighting back on the patent front?!?!" Trust us, there are people in suits working on this every day. And today David Drummond, senior vice pres...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 22, 2011
Microsoft has released a set of tools and samples that now makes it a good bit easier to get users Windows Live data from Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger for smartphone applications, including Androi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
Microsoft and Samsung reportedly are in discussions over licensing fees concerning the latter's Android smartphones. Reuters, citing "local media," reported that Microsoft was "demandin...
