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Microsoft and Canon have just entered into a broad patent cross-licensing agreement which is actually expansion of existing alliance between Microsoft and Canon. Now, as it happens this has given rise to some speculations and every major tech site is talking about a possibility...

China, the largest smartphone market has been elusive to Nokia and Microsoft largely till now. Microsoft realizes this and also knows about the potential that China market with over one billion mobile subscribers possesses. That’s why, Microsoft seems to tackle this situation by making...

evleaks claims that Microsoft is in final stages of licensing Nokia brand to call its handsets ( we will assume they mean for Lumia / Asha devices, as Microsoft has already licensed Nokia name for feature phones) as “Nokia by Microsoft”. The other part...

The latest version of Android, Android L has been unveiled today during the Google I/O event. So, while Android may be the leading smartphone and Tablet platform, Google seems, has been inspired lately by Microsoft, as far as the new design language which Android...

Apple has a long history of RDF (reality distortion field) behind it and at WWDC they did try to live up to it once again. Tim Cook's presentation had a slide comparing Windows 8 and OS X Mavricks' adoption rates. The chart shows Windows...

IDC has released its smartphone sales volume predictions for the period of 2014-2018. They predict Windows Phone sales volume of 43.3 million units in 2014. With Q1 volume estimated to be close to 8 million units, it seems IDC expects sales of 35 million...

While File manager certainly stole the spotlight during Joe Belfiore's AMA on Reddit, there were some other important stuff which Joe touched upon. Have a look at all the highlight below, New upcoming File Manager almost ready for launch (Expected late May) 'Optimistic' about Mobile data...

Since Nokia's Devices and services division already belongs to Microsoft now, so here you go with the Q1 2014 results for the division. Things don't look rosy and both mobile phones and smartphones vloumes have seen decline. This is inline with the trend identified...

Stephen Elop, the ex-Nokia CEO and now the Executive Vice President of the Microsoft Devices Group has done AMA on (earlier Nokia) Conversations blog. He tackled some tough question posed by Nokia Fans on the first day of his new job. Read in the...

Microsoft has released a security advisory regarding an Internet explorer vulnerability. The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability and it affects Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 10, and Internet Explorer 11. While Windows Phone...

Kantar Worldpanel has released its report for 3 months ending March 2014, and the trend doesn’t look very encouraging in 5 European markets. Windows Phone saw a small sales share decline in Feb 2014 taking its sales share to 9.7% in EU5 markets. In...

Microsoft has done a series of very interesting and significant announcements at BUILD 2014, yesterday. Some of them can have real big impact on the software industry dynamics going forward. We are talking about two such announcements here which may prove to be too...