
Microsoft Launches Its Own Branded-Tablet: Microsoft Surface
“Because of Windows 8, the Surface is a PC, the Surface is a tablet, and the Surface is something new that we think people will...

Data Show Tablets Gaining Importance
in conjunction with Barnes & Noble. The event will happen at 3:30 Pacific time. Danny is there (at LA’s Milk Studios) and will be...

Microsoft Brings Larger, More Integrated (But Still Silent) Ads To Skype Calls
Microsoft Advertising is rolling out what it calls a “Conversation Ad” for Skype — a 300×250 medium rectangle that sits in the Windows...

Microsoft Delivers Strong Quarter: $17.4B Revenue, Bing Division Sees Smaller Loss
announced strong fiscal Q3 results earlier this afternoon. The company reported revenues of $17.4 billion, which was a 6 percent...

Microsoft, Nokia Invest $24M In App Development To Help Close The Windows Phone App-Gap
Microsoft and Nokia hope that aggressive pricing and marketing will address the former problem. To address the latter issue, the two...

Google, Dell Prepare Tablet Counterattack As Apple Announces Three-Million iPad Weekend
iPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs? On a conference call this morning about Apple’s just-announced stock dividend, Apple CEO...

Google Wallet Gets Its Second US Carrier — AT&T
said in December that it was blocking Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus handset, because of “security concerns,” conspiracy theories...

Seeking To Banish “Distraction” Microsoft Replaces Hotmail Display Ads With Deals
Not all Hotmail users will see the new ads immediately. Microsoft is doing a pilot in which it’s testing consumer response to deals ads...

Microsoft Posts $21B In Revenue, Xbox May Beat Windows Revenues Soon
Google and Microsoft released quarterly earnings. Google posted its highest gross revenues to date but missed analysts’ Q4 expectations....

Windows Phone Now Recognized By Google Analytics
Welcome to the big leagues, Windows Phone. You’re now being recognized as an operating system by Google Analytics, rather than being...

Who’s Surgin’, Who’s Saggin’: iPhone Or Android?
Some numbers released yesterday by NPD Group suggested that the iPhone was regaining some of the market share it had recently lost to...

Steve Ballmer’s Last CES Keynote: Metro, Metro, Metro & Windows, Window, Windows
If you were expecting big news from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s final CES keynote, forget it. “Windows Store” for applications is...

















