Nathan Becker from the Dow Jones Newswires reports that for the three-month period ended in October, Blackberry-maker RIM again had the biggest market share at 35.8%, according to comScore Inc. But that was down 3.5 percentage points from the prior three-month period. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone operating system remained at No. 2, gaining 0.8 point to… →
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Microsoft Pink smartphone project: KIN gets killed
After HP acquired and killed the WebOS Smartphone platform, another one bites the dust. As we reported in march, the Danger group Microsoft acquired — a Java-based smartphone platform that pioneered messaging-oriented phones targeted at younger people — has been working for two years on “Pink,” a top secret project operating independently from Windows Mobile,… →
Microsoft turns Pink: competing against its own Widnows 7 Phone series
In an effort to compete with itself, Microsoft is preparing a new smartphone based on the Danger Sidekick. Microsoft recently relaunched the future of Windows Mobile under the name “Windows 7 Phone Series” which it hopes to ship as a product by the end of the year. Microsoft has taken the route of deemphasizing mobile… →
Windows 7 Phone Series: Microsoft is doing something "new" and "original"?
Just four months after Windows Mobile 6.5 hit the market, Microsoft has officially introduced Windows Phone 7 Series, the new multitouch-capable mobile operating system designed to defeat Apple’s iPhone. We were all looking at the iPad and suddenly, Microsoft comes with this new, impressive, and I would dare to say “original” take on the mobile… →
Microsoft Bing iPhone App released
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has now its own iPhone App. The native app is free. It offers search of images, movies, maps, businesses, news and directions. Users can check their flight status, view the image of the day and use voice search. “Make decisions and get where you need to go with Bing,” the official… →