Yesterday Microsoft took the usual action of filing a suit against the popular GPS provider TomTom. The case revolves around patents involving file management as well as in-car navigation features. The trick is that TomTom runs Linux as does most of the navigational vendors.
Linux is where the twist is in this case and where Microsoft [...]

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As Microsoft always strives to be less sucky that the last thing that Microsoft did, Windows Mobile 6.5 is a movement in the right direction. Highlights include a friendly hardware start button, the honeycomb touch screen and app store:
Smartphones are the main growth area in the mobile industry, and Microsoft is in the beginning of [...]

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Aside from my MacBookpro, I have a Dell D600 which served a purpose about 3 years ago. Luckily it is now repurposed as a Linux Netbook running gOS 3.1, a version of Ubuntu Linux specifically tailored to maximise the Google Experience on a laptop. It also however attempts to follow design elements from the Mac [...]

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After the Microsoft purging in early January no one department was left untouched including the team working on the Zune player. All of Microsoft’s divisions are losing money except Windows, Office, Tools and Business CRM
Although they deny it, it is related to the precipitous drop in revenue in the last quarter (down 54%) Microsoft recently [...]

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Over at Gigaom, they are predicting a wide spread slow down of Wireless Data Services WDS:
Last week, UBS Research in a research note pointed out that AT&T had 1.25 million 3G laptop subscribers as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2008. Net card additions had fallen 121,000 from the 186,000 additions in the [...]

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Microsoft entered 2009, midnight PST to be exact, with egg on their faces over failure of the Zune Media player to account for the Leap Second which ended 2008.
According to Zune owners from across the globe, thousands of Microsoft’s 30GB iPod imitators suddenly gave up the ghost at exactly midnight Pacific time last night.
“We’ve [...]

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Uploaded on November 11, 2006 by penmachine
Victor Godinez of the Dallas Morning News comments today about the fate of the Zune and indeed why iPod users should care.
But anyone who plans to buy an iPod should hope that Microsoft is able to turn the Zune into at least a modest success.
His basic argument is [...]

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Buried in the Microsoft latest SEC filing is an interesting and noteworthly comment about the Zune player:
Zune platform revenue decreased $100 million or 54% reflecting a decrease in device sales….
This means the Zune went from $185M for the quarter ending Sept 2008 to $85M for quarter ending Dec 2008. The December should be it’s best [...]

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Henry Blodget , mostly is known mostly for being spectacularly wrong during the dot com bubble of the early 2000s, and Silicon Alley Insider have decided this week to put pen to tablet (so to speak) and wax on about how Microsoft is poised to take advantage of the current weakness in the stock market. [...]

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Analyst firm Canalys has released the results of it’s Consumer Mobility Analysis Report and it is very good news for Apple, good news for RIM and Microsoft and bad news for Nokia:
The success of Apple and RIM, as well as fifth-placed HTC with its Windows Mobile devices, has eaten into Nokia’s share of [...]

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