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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

There is an old adage in the tech industry “innovation is good, but not at the cost of functionality”. This means that you need to do what your customer bought the product for really well, …

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 …

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With Microsoft’s stumbling with the lauch of Vista has come a litany of stories about the demise of Windows as the IT industries richest franchise. However it’s death, if evident, …

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With the departure of Bill Gates from the day to day running of Microsoft it marks an end of an era for Microsoft and one of the …

Those of us who are used to the nightmare of upgrading and installing software on Windows will relate to Bill Gates 2003 experience when he tried to download and install Moviemaker:
I decided to download (Moviemaker) …

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A club to celebrate the love child between Steve Ballmer and Robbie the Robot, otherwise known as the Zune player has opened in downtown …