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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...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jul 01, 2011
Google is participating in preliminary talks to buy Hulu, according to a report today by the Los Angeles Times. The article cited anonymous sources close to the situation who say that Google is inter...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 26, 2011
You're going to talk down on the LG Revolution. You're going to say some not-so-nice things about it. And that's a shame, really. Because save for one thing, we really don't have much to say ab...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2011
Another day, another chart showing Android's spectacular growth. What you see above is Gartner's numbers for the first quarter of 2011. And in those three months, some 36.2 million Android device...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 10, 2011
And there you have it: Microsoft put out the press release this morning that it indeed is buying Skype, the leading video and VoIP client. The price? $8.5 billion. (We'll let that sink in fo...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 09, 2011
If Google was hoping to control all the hallway chatter at this year's Google IO, well, it looks like they've lost that bid. Perhaps, in fact, they've lost two, as the WSJ is reporting that Microsoft ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 13, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingSo at Microsoft's MIX developer conference today in Las Vegas, Microsoft VP of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore did a little HTML test showing IE9 on a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 12, 2011
Good news for those of you waiting anxiously for the LG Revolution -- the 4.3-inch, LTE-capable Froyo device (see our first look from CES) is hitting the hands of testers, which brings it t...
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by Joshua Munoz
Apr 11, 2011
There's a definite lack of Windows Phone-themed music players in the Android Market -- can't imagine why -- but simplePlay hopes to remedy that. SimplePlay is actually a dual music/podcast player that...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 02, 2011
Apparently some crazy fool went and shared this picture on Twitter and, no, we haven't jumped ship to Windows Phone 7. But that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun with it. What you see here is t...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Dec 29, 2010
Google is no stranger to lawsuits, and they will have yet another on their hands it appears. Paul Allen, the Co-Founder (and least spoken about) of Microsoft filed an amended lawsuit against Google, a...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Dec 18, 2010
Now that Bing is available in the Android Market for all carriers, Microsoft is making sure its premiere search app is the best it can be. The big M has updated their app to bring users these new feat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 15, 2010
Sprint's version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab -- all of one day old at this point -- has already gotten its first over-their-air update. MR0 DJ30 "will address the Microsoft Exchange IT A...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 20, 2010
Docs to Go 3.0, the heavily anticipated update to the popular Microsoft Office viewing/editing app may finally be released in the next couple of weeks. Yes, we write this knowing full well that Datavi...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 11, 2010
Microsoft dominated headlines this morning with the announcement of their new Windows Phone 7 platform. For all Windows Phone 7 news, check out our sister site, WPCentral.Along with the announce...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 01, 2010
Take the natural progression of mobile device software, add in some overpriced corporate law types and a very big and very popular target, and you get a new round of patent lawsuits! This time ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 22, 2010
We in the Android world have been basking in some pretty bad-arse hardware for some time now. Our Windows Phone cousins, on the other hand, have been patiently waiting for something new since -- well,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 17, 2010
Bash Bing for Android all you want. Go ahead. We'll wait. For we share your frustration that Verizon set it as the default search service on the Samsung Fascinate (and that's why we worked so h...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 10, 2010
In all seriousness, congratulations to the Windows Phone 7 team (and our pals at WMExperts) for reaching RTM status. It's a huge step in finally getting Windows Phone 7 to consumers (and we're excite...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 30, 2010
Microsoft unveiled its Bing search app for Android today. But if you want to get in on the action, you're going to have to have a Verizon phone, as it's exclusive to the carrier's section of the Andr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 13, 2010
Knew it was only a matter of time before we saw a Bing app for Android, right? It's pretty good for Windows Mobile, pretty darn good on the iPhone, and we're expecting it to be really good on Windows ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2010
It's not much of a secret, judging by all the talk in our Evo 4G forums, that a lot of you folks out there are getting ready to jump one ship or another to join the ranks of Android with the Sprint ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 28, 2010
Microsoft issued a news release late late night, announcing it signed a patent agreement with HTC over its entire line of smartphones running the Android operating system. Specific terms of the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 12, 2010
For a fleeting second -- but not much more than that -- I was worried. Here's Microsoft, unveiling its new "Kin" (or KIN, if you ask them) dumber-than-a-smartphone, smarter-than-a-dumbphone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 09, 2010
So Verizon has some "journey" that it's beginning on Monday. While we're all waiting on the HTC Incredible to be announced any day now, we're not quite sure it fits the "it's new, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2010
This is another one of those deals that's likely to raise a few eyebrows, or at least produce some unwarranted exclamation points. The long and short of it is that Microsoft and Motorola have come to ...
