Microsoft, Google Tussle Over Android Phone Patents
Apple’s iPhone may be the most talked about smartphone on the market, but there are far more phones using Google’s Android operating system — 40 percent of the U.S. market. Microsoft’s Windows for Mobile comes in near the bottom, with around 5 percent. But Microsoft states Android steps all over its patents.
Nokia Jumps as Motorola Deal May Shift Makers to Microsoft
(Updates with estimate for Nokia’s patents in ninth paragraph.) Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones by volume, climbed the most in 1 1/2 years in Helsinki trading after Google Inc.
Nokia shows Ovi brand the door
Nokia is to abandon its Ovi brand, the handset manufacturer stated on Monday. The company had been pushing the mobile services brand hard since its 2007 launch, but the Ovi services will rebranded as ‘Nokia services’ later this year. It is not clear how much of this is to do with Nokia’s tie-in with Microsoft, a deal that will involve the integration of the Ovi services and content store with Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace.
Skype skal trylle for Microsoft
Af Thomas BreinstrupMandag den 16. maj 2011, 05:00 Optur. Aldrig før har Microsoft betalt så meget, men dansk-svenske Skype kan vise sig afgørende for softwaregiganten på vejen tilbage til IT-tronen. Skype skal nemlig skaffe Microsoft tilbage i front – et voldsomt udfald mod Apple og ærkerivalen Google, som bid for bid har pillet Microsoft ned fra IT-tronen.
ETech provides peek inside Microsoft labs
SAN DIEGO–Previewing its lab technology this week, Microsoft researchers trotted out a new browser for the cell phone and an Xbox game that asks children to be programmers. Microsoft researchers showed off several new technologies that the company has been incubating in its Microsoft Research and Live Labs divisions Wednesday and Thursday at the ETech conference, a four-day event on emerging technology.
5 điều Microsoft có thể thực hiện với Skype
Thông báo ngày thứ ba (10/05/2011) vừa rồi của Microsoft rằng công ty đang mua lại Skype rõ ràng là một tin tức nóng hổi, nhưng hàng triệu người tiêu dùng lại không hề quan tâm. Thay vào đó, rất nhiều khách hàng trong hơn 660 triệu tài khoản video và công cụ web của Microsoft lại bày tỏ sự lo lắng về tác động kinh tế của thỏa thuận mua bán trị giá 8,5 tỷ USD này và cuộc ...
Another Fine Mess
When anyone with a laptop, an iPhone or a Android phone can use Skype, what on earth is the point of owning it? Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of Skype looks like one of those deals where a silvery-tongued investment banker has persuaded a CEO of the benefits of a take-over only for the CEO to wake up scratching his head after the deal is done wondering: “Why on earth did I do this?” It’s like buying a public footpath.
Buzz Out Loud 1466: Google and the nine OS strategy, and Microsoft buys Skype …
Huge news day today, with Google’s I/O presentation packing about a day’s worth of news into a single hourlong presentation–and this is just the first day. We wonder whether Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Chrome OS can exist in the same world, and whether the music labels will ever again get a seat at the table.
Skype ska leva vidare
Microsoft och Skype diskuterade från början ett partnerskap kring annonsering, men i slutändan blev ett uppköp den bästa vägen. Det säger Microsofts vd Steve Ballmer i sitt första framträdande efter det största företagsköpet i Microsofts historia. – Vi har mer att tillföra som ett enda företag, säger Steve Ballmer.
Five things Microsoft may do with Skype
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, left, and Skype CEO Tony Bates shake hands at a news conference Tuesday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS For Skype and Microsoft users, Tuesday’s news raises questions about the future The Xbox 360 Kinect, Windows Phone and even Facebook could see integration with Skype Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Skype will not disappear from Apple and Android devices (CNN) — Tuesday’s announcement that Microsoft has purchased Skype is obviously large business news, but millions of consumers aren’t focused on that.
