Skype plans to acquire popular group-messaging service GroupMe for a rumored $85 million. But more important than how GroupMe will benefit Skype is how it will benefit Microsoft, which is in the process of acquiring Skype for $8.5 billion.READ»
While the tech world focuses on the strategy behind Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, we take a look at what the move means for the way we think about our smartphones, and the way they work.READ»
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RIM's monopoly on email-addicted professionals and government contracts could bolster the BlackBerry's popularity only for so long. According to a new report by Nielsen, the Apple iPhone has finally passed its main competitor in U.S. smartphone market share.READ»
Mobile apps have taken over the world. So it's only fitting that we take a look at the current state of mobile apps with this colorful, informative infographic.READ»
HTC just announced three new smartphones at MWC that push the company's custom Sense UI onto some of the best hardware around. The Desire and Legend are destined to become the two hottest Android phones on the market, and, well, the ...READ»
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 smartphone operating system casts a long shadow over a whole line of upcoming devices that will use Windows Mobile 6.5, an older OS that now looks extremely jaded.READ»
It looks like Microsoft is all set to finally reveal Windows Mobile 7, long-awaited cure to the ills of all the earlier WinMo OSes. The action's due to happen at Mobile World Congress on Monday. When no one in the U.S. will care. ...READ»
Microsoft has declared a massive victory for its latest operating system: "Windows 7 is by far the fastest selling Operating System in history," according to Craig Beilinson, the Director of Marketing for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division. READ»
This week's big mobile news is the launch of bada, Samsung's own-brand operating system. In the few days since the news hit, however, there's been an awful lot of rumors, disinformation, misinformation and general blather. Does the ...READ»
We've covered bits and bobs about Microsoft's "Project Pink" Zune smartphone before, but the device since disappeared from the news. It's back again, matched with exciting rumors of an MS Tablet PC. Doesn't this all sound familiar?READ»
The App Stores War is getting a lot more interesting: Palm, it seems, is paying serious cash to app developers, while Microsoft has resorted to placing ads for developers in iPhone Apps. All to beat Apple.READ»
Microsoft will use one version of its Windows Mobile operating system to combat Android sales, and another version against the iPhone, According to Digitimes.
The hare-brained two-tier strategy won't roll out until October, when ...READ»
According to AdMob, Web traffic from Google Android devices is quickly overtaking Windows Mobile in the smartphone segment with 25% month-over-month growth in June. The advertising company, which does 40% of its business serving ads ...READ»
Good news for Windows Mobile users from the Worldwide Partner Conference: by year's end, Windows Marketplace, Microsoft's upcoming app vendor, will be open to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1. Previously Microsoft was gearing the site toward WinMo ...READ»
Cherry is going to have T-Mobile and AT&T more than a little worried. The Belgium-based startup modifies your GSM smartphone to allow it to switch seamlessly between WiFi and cell network calling, all at ultra cheap "WiFi calling" ...READ»
Garmin's been teasing its entry into the smartphone market, the Nuvifone, for ages. And there had been suggestions that Asus was building an Eee phone. But the two companies have now revealed they're joining forces to make cellphones ...READ»
Windows Mobile is the oft-forgotten prince of Smartphoneland, with millions of smartphone handsets carrying at least one version of the OS, sometimes behind the scenes. But to counter the rising threat from the iPhone and Android, it ...READ»
