This article is from geek.com : Bill Gates gets all the press, and for good reason: Microsoft’s other co-founder, Paul Allen, hasn’t done too much to garner big headlines over the last decade. Now he’s looking to change that, though… by suing most of the Internet in a high-profile patent dispute. The...

This article is from FierceWireless : With the fourth quarter of the year coming up soon, my eyes are on one company: Microsoft. It's been an active year for the smartphone market: Apple's iPhone setting off another round of die-hard loyalists waiting to get their iPhone 4, Motorola storming...

This article is from Information Week : Posted by Ed Hansberry For the early part of its life, Windows Mobile was one of the more powerful mobile platforms, yet it was never known as being the most spry. Microsoft set out to fix that with Windows Phone 7 and early indications are it has succeeded. function...

This is from the Xbox UK Press Centre : COLOGNE, Germany — August 17, 2010 - Today at Gamescom 2010, the world’s largest consumer-oriented games showcase, Microsoft Corp. premiered the first wave of Xbox LIVE games launching on Windows Phone 7 this Christmas. With even more games and applications to...

This article is from Mobile Business Briefing : Microsoft has launched a new website called 'Mobile App Match' intended to promote discussion between application developers and consumers, "to start conversations, exchange ideas and see what develops." Programmers can post apps and videos...

This article is from PC World : Hoping to leapfrog over Google and Apple's successes in the smartphone market, Microsoft plans to use cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing technology to offer user interface capabilities not found on the iPhone or Android devices. "We...

This article is from WMExperts : One of the biggest changes to the Windows Phone 7 ecosystem is the installation of applications: you can only install them via the Marketplace and all programs need to be approved by Microsoft. A lot of anger was directed against Microsoft for this decision, but we actually...

This article is from Computerworld : Microsoft has officially divulged names of at least five manufacturers for its coming Windows Phone 7 devices, with Asus recently added to a list of four revealed at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference on July 13. Microsoft's mobile senior vice president...

This article from TechCrunch is fascinating : If you’ve watched television at all over the past two months, you’ve likely seen the trailer for Inception, the new film by Christopher Nolan. The trailer is great, and the film looks like it could be even better. In it, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, a special...

This article is from PC World : Microsoft will release a new mobile OS for enterprise handheld devices later this year as it tries to simplify the Windows Mobile upgrade cycle for customers, the company said Thursday. The Windows Embedded Handheld OS will come out later this year and be based on the...