Report: Windows Phones Gain In EU, Struggle In US, China
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech today reported that Windows Phones are seeing meaningful share gains across a number of European countries. In...
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Microsoft CEO Ballmer To Retire Next Year, Market Likes The News
This morning, Microsoft announced that Ballmer will retire in the next 12 months. Ballmer has been CEO of the Redmond, WA-based company...
Study: Mobile Site Performance Drives Customer Satisfaction Over Premium Content
customer satisfaction report from ForeSee, focusing on media and entertainment mobile websites and apps, revealed that a site’s mobile...
Microsoft Also Misses On $19.9 Billion In Quarterly Revenue
missing bullish revenue estimates. Microsoft also did so when it reported fiscal quarter and full-year earnings today. Redmond’s overall...
Microsoft Unveils New Ad Solution For Windows 8 Apps, Aimed At Brands
The new solution came out of Microsoft’s partnership with creative agencies — including AKQA, Big Spaceship, Razorfish, Team...
Mobile App Developers Must Update Windows Phone Ad Units By September 12 To Continue Receiving Ads
After launching a number of pubCenter changes, Microsoft announced today that mobile app developers will need to update all existing...
Survey: Windows Phone Gaining At Android’s Expense
Kantar argues that Windows Phones “have begun to capture consumers from across the competitor set.” According to the research unit of...
Tablet Shipments To Overtake Laptops This Year — Report
says in its latest forecast that tablet shipments will exceed what it calls “portable PCs” (laptops) this year. The firm reported...
Microsoft Posts $20.49B Quarterly Revs: Online Ads Worth $784M, Rev Per Search Up
reported $20.49 billion in fiscal quarterly revenue (Q3 13). That figure was just shy of analysts’ consensus estimates of $20.5 billion;...
Awkward: Microsoft Rips Facebook, Says Windows Phone Is Real “People First” Device
Microsoft’s “Real Thing” People Phone From today’s post by Frank X. Shaw, corporate vice president of communication for Microsoft: I...
Duopoly Time: Apple And Samsung Combine For Almost 90 Percent Of 2012 Global Smartphone Market
out today from IDC show the two combining for a staggering 87.6 percent of all smartphones “shipped” in 2012 on a global basis. In Q4,...
Global Handset Sales Fall But Smartphones Continue To Gain
According to sales data compiled by Gartner, global mobile handset sales in 2012 hit 1.75 billion units. However that was a nearly 2...
Windows Phone, Microsoft Surface And The “Battle Of The Ecosystems”
And while Windows Phones (8) do have some unique features and the UI is nicely done, none of those individual OS features is likely to...
Report: Mobile Safari Users Generate More Clicks, Longest Queries
Chitika provided us with some interesting data comparing click through rates (CTRs) and query lengths on the various desktop and mobile...
September Smartphone Market: Once Again The Apple-Android Show
Metrics firm comScore reported that in September Android grew its dominant market share to 52.5 percent. Powered by the iPhone 5, Apple...
Live Blog: The Windows Phone 8 Launch Event
Live from San Francisco, it’s Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 launch event. Our live blogging will begin when the event starts at 10am, so...
Dueling Apple, Microsoft, Google Press Events Promise Onslaught Of Mobile Devices For Holiday Buyers
Right on the heels of Apple’s tablet unveiling Google and Microsoft are holding dueling press events a week from now. Microsoft’s Windows...
Microsoft Revenues Soft As Company Awaits Windows 8 Rollout
announced quarterly results yesterday and, although they were massive, they were flat or down compared with a year ago. Overall Microsoft...
RIM, Windows Continue To Lose Mobile Market Share, Android Near 53 Percent — comScore
reported August US mobile market share data. Consistent with the pattern of the last several months Samsung continued to lead other...
A Blizzard Of Smartphones Announced In Run Up To iPhone 5
announced two new Lumia-Windows (8) Phones. Google’s Motorola division also announced three new RAZR smartphones. Today Amazon will...
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