released Windows Ad Mediator, an extension to help Windows Phone app developers fill more ad inventory. The extension allows developers...

In something of a surprise Android-based smartphone maker Xiaomi has overtaken LG to become the world’s third largest OEM after Samsung...

Wearables are here to stay. The question now is what’s the right design, feature set and price. Yesterday Microsoft made its opening...

This afternoon Microsoft reported fiscal Q1 revenues and profit, beating Wall Street estimates for both the top and bottom lines....

Microsoft has redesigned its portal site MSN to make it more cross-platform and ad friendly as well as more personalized. It’s a...

The monthly smartphone report from comScore has become as “boring” as the search market share report. It now changes very little month...

Fueled by surging growth by Android in emerging markets, smartphone companies shipped a record 301.3 million devices during the second...

Apple’s iOS and Android appear to be locked in a zero-sum battle in the enterprise market, with iOS maintaining a healthy lead as Android...

announced widely anticipated layoffs this morning. A total of 18,000 jobs will be eliminated by June 30, 2015, most by the end of the...

Android devices already beat Windows, Mac and iOS devices by a wide margin, and a new forecast from Gartner sees that growing even more...

interview at the Code Conference. He spoke about a wide range of issues and challenges that Microsoft faces. He also helped demo some...

Yesterday afternoon comScore released its US smartphone and mobile app rankings for March. Interestingly the company appears to have...

Though Cortana is has generated the biggest headlines from Microsoft’s annual Build Conference, the company dangled a few new carrots to...

I projected today that overall device shipments (not sales) would increase this year by nearly 7 percent vs. 2013. Sale of traditional...

This morning comScore released its latest US smartphone report. These monthly missives have become largely static documents with little...

Microsoft is apparently readying its own digital assistant called “Cortana,” to take on Apple’s Siri and Google Now. Hopefully, Cortana...

introducing low-end Android smartphones upon being absorbed into Microsoft is obvious. Had the company put out Android devices earlier,...

For months the tech press has been writing about the imminent arrival of Microsoft’s answer to Siri: Cortana. The virtual assistant is...

IDC, “Android and iOS accounted for 95.7 percent of all smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2013, and for 93.8 percent of all...

ComScore released US November smartphone metrics today. The company says smartphone penetration in the US is 63.8 percent. By comparison...