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Goodnight Zune
After five years of false starts, word is leaking out that Microsoft is giving up on its much-maligned portable music player.
By Mark Horowitz, contributor
Dear Zune:
I gave you the best years of my life, and this is how you repay me, by breaking up? And I had to read about it online. You didn't even have the decency to Skype.
But who am I kidding, Zune, I'll always forgive you, because I MORE
Mar 18, 2011 5:43 PM ETPosted in: Bloomberg Television, iTunes, Microsoft, Personal computer, Windows Media Center, Windows Phone 7, Xbox, Zune -
Can Nokia and Microsoft win in the workplace?
The phonemaker and the software giant have struggled in smartphones. But together they just might crack the corporate market.
Nokia's recent decision to outfit its phones with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software should be a CIO's dream come true. Corporate tech chiefs love their vendors to compete, and the Nokia/Microsoft hookup would appear to offer companies a viable alternative to RIM, (RIMM) whose BlackBerry system rules with a 33% share of MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Mar 15, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Google, iPhones, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, NokiaSoft, Research in Motion, RIM, Smartphones, Windows Phone 7 -
Today in Tech: new iPad 2 shipments, HP CEO Leo Apotheker's company strategy
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Put a fork in it, everyone -- the Zune is dead. Microsoft will reportedly put an end to its ill-fated music-video player due to lack of demand. Instead, the company will focus on putting its Zune software onto smartphones likely running Windows Phone 7. (Bloomberg)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 15, 2011 5:00 AM ET
AT&T may be leveraging MOREPosted in: Amin Zoufonoun, Angry Birds, Apple, AT&T, David Lawee, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Groupon, how to get an iPad 2, HP, iPad, iPad 2, Jambool, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Léo Apotheker, Microsoft, Postini, ReachLocal, Silicon Alley Insider, Sprint, TechCrunch, Verizon, where to get an iPad 2, Windows Phone 7, Zune -
Today in Tech: Is this the iPhone 5?
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Let's kick off the new week with a new iPhone 5 rumor... An alleged leak from China reveals engineering sketches of Apple's next-generation smartphone which will be used to make case and bumper accessories. On first glance, you'll notice it pretty much resembles the iPhone 4, but MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 14, 2011 7:20 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Facebook email rolling out, NokSoft's $1 billion deal
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Microsoft is paying Nokia $1 billion to develop and market Windows Phone 7 smartphones. In exchange, Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows Phone 7 used on its devices, and those costs will likely be offset as the company downsizes its internal MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 8, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Charlie Sheen, comScore, Google, Hitachi, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, News Corp., Nokia, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, Windows, Windows Phone 7, YouTube -
T-Mobile says farewell to Microsoft Danger
The cell company is rebooting Sidekick phones on Google's Android OS, leaving Microsoft's $500 million purchase of Danger looking wasted.
If you needed more proof that Microsoft's $500 million acquisition of mobile software maker Danger was a flop, here it is: T-Mobile just announced that service to its once-popular Sidekick devices, powered by Danger, will be discontinued on May 31.
What does that mean? For Sidekick users, it means your text-centric smartphone MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Mar 1, 2011 11:07 AM ET -
Intel CEO to Nokia's Elop: I would have gone Google
Paul Otellini told a group of analysts last night that Nokia's choice of Windows Phone 7 over Android was simply a financial decision.
According to a Reuters report this morning, Paul Otellini isn't too thrilled with Nokia's (NOK) decision to go with Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone 7. In fact he thinks that Nokia chose the wrong platform and that the decision was strictly a monetary one.
Clearly, Otellini would have preferred that Nokia continue to MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 17, 2011 1:43 PM ET -
Microsoft-Nokia deal is good news for Android
By creating an alliance that will take a year to materialize, Microsoft is alienating its other mobile partners and ceding the lower and mid-range smartphone market to Google.
Everybody saw it coming but the Microsoft-Nokia announcement is still shaking the market today. Nokia's(NOK) shares have just fallen off a cliff (right) losing 12% of their value ($5B) on the news. Microsoft (MSFT) shares are faring better but its current smartphone partners (LG, Samsung, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 11, 2011 11:19 AM ETPosted in: Android, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Research in Motion, smartphone, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 -
Why Android will not suffer from Verizon's iPhone
Here's why Piper is wrong.
In the U.S., we tend to think that we are the center of the world and what happens here sets a trend for the rest of the world. That's why it is no surprise to hear Americans say that the release of the Verizon (VZ) iPhone today signals the end of the ascent of Android. Piper Jaffay's Gene Munster is one of these believers. In a MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 10, 2011 11:31 AM ET -
Google VP tips Nokia's hand for Friday
Nokia has a big decision to announce Friday and Google VP (and former Microsoft VP) Vic Gundotra might have the inside track.
Vic Gondotra is a Google (GOOG) VP who doesn't shy away from making abrupt public statements. Last night, likely referring to Nokia's (NOK) impending February 11 announcement on whether it will go with Android or Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone 7, he tweeted:
Two turkeys do not make an Eagle
Gundotra was likely in MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 9, 2011 9:02 AM ET
