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EU: formal complaint filed by Microsoft over Google dominance

Published on: 4th April, 2011

A few days ago, Microsoft filed a complaint to the European Union, incriminating Google for unfair competition. The document is backing earlier complaints, partly generated by a Microsoft subsidiary and maintains that Google had excluded competition systematically. Many complaints were centered on YouTube, deliberately excluded from results of search for rivals, for example Bing. Access [...]

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, brings out conflicts with Bill Gates

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Co-founder Paul Allen has publicly declared that Gates intended to take shares of Microsoft while Allen was subject to cancer treatment. These allegations are included in Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft, Allen’s upcoming book, expected to go on sale on the 17th of April, the Wall Street Journal says. Allen and [...]

Google, Microsoft and Apple, some of the highest-rated brands in the world

Published on: 31st March, 2011

Brand Directory has published its rankings for 2011, listing the most valuable brands on earth. Technology and US-based companies dominate this list, with Google and Microsoft taking the two top spots. IBM is on fourth place and Vodafone is following very close on fifth. Apple on eighth and AT&T are filling out the top ten. [...]

Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO -$6 million paid to jump from Microsoft

Published on: 16th March, 2011

According to a Nokia just-filed 20-F form (PDF) filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company’s successful head-hunt of Stephen Elop, Microsoft executive, as the new CEO in September 2010 will most certainly cost more than $6 million. This breakdown includes about 2.3 million euros (about $3.18 million) which was paid in October, [...]

Microsoft relaxes Windows Phone 7 application policies, reaches 9,000

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Microsoft recently incited its Windows Phone 7 developers with some policy changes and a milestone for its applications. It is now closer to iOS and Android policies and will allow publishers certify a free application one hundred times without having to pay the developer fee a second time. The limit was five previously and therefore [...]

Microsoft posts new jobs for third-generation Xbox

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Microsoft seems to show the first signs of preparing for its Xbox 360’s eventual substitution with a set of new jobs posted on March 4 and discovered three days later. Listings for VLSI performance and graphics architects would offer new recruits the possibility to work on next generation console architectures; the jobs target for a [...]

Windows 8 ARM-based tablets being explored by Taiwanese companies

Published on: 10th March, 2011

ITProPortal has recently found out, thanks to the CeBIT show taking place in Taiwan, that most of the companies exhibiting were anxious to launch ARM-based products running on Windows 8. Products will include tablets, notebooks, mainboards and even barebone PCs. The first companies to do so are expected to be those who already manufacture ARM-based [...]

Microsoft and Google try to shut down patent troll of GeoTag

Published on: 8th March, 2011

Microsoft and Google, in a quite unexpected case of cooperation, launched a lawsuit which attempts to shut down patent troll GeoTag. The suit, which is based in Delaware, asks in court for the invalidation of GeoTag’s lone patent, a claim from 1996, to an “Internet organizer for accessing geographically and topically based information” founded on [...]

Windows Phone 7 updates for Samsung’s handsets resumed by Microsoft

Published on: 5th March, 2011

Microsoft has recently said that it had started again to send out the frozen Samsung Windows Phone 7 update. The company also said that it had identified and fixed the issue that had led the Omnia 7 and Focus to fail and even brick in some cases, when users tried to get the patch. Microsoft [...]

Nokia says Microsoft deal conditioned by very low-price Windows Phone devices

Published on: 23rd February, 2011

Stephen Elop, recently installed CEO at Nokia, at a Finnish press event, said that a condition of the Microsoft deal was to develop ultra-budget Windows Phone devices. Before making the switch, Nokia had to be convinced that it could hit a “very low price point” in a short time. Although he did not provide a [...]

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