A top executive at Motorola suggested on Tuesday that the company is open to a deal with Microsoft on Windows.
To develop secure mobile apps, an investment in time to apply the correct testing and auditing techniques is worth the effort.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 08/08/2011
The legal "knife fight" over patents and Android use continues, with two Microsoft executives contesting complaints by Google.
IT pros need to constantly update their skills in order to survive. Redmond asked experts -- and readers -- which skills and jobs have a solid future and which ones will crumble in the years to come. Here's what we found.
A jury on Friday awarded Alcatel-Lucent $70 million in a long-running dispute over Microsoft's use of patented Alcatel software technology.
Google earlier this month purchased more than 1,000 patents from IBM, covering a broad array of technologies.
From monitoring SQL Server to remote-access tools to cloud synching to Cisco security, here's 11 apps that any Windows techie with an iPhone or iPad will want to check out.
The Kinect sensor may one day be miniaturized for laptops, mobile smartphones and other mobile devices, according to Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced yet another intellectual property deal associated with the use of the Android open source mobile operating system.
The Toronto-based telecom and networking giant indicated that the winning bidder was a consortium of companies, including Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony.
Microsoft today chalked up yet another intellectual property win against the Linux-based Android mobile operating system.
Microsoft announced a transition plan this week to move those using various versions of its older Windows Mobile 6 operating systems onto its Windows Live SkyDrive storage service.
Apple, Google and Microsoft are battling for market share in the smartphone OS space. While Apple and Google have more popular but similar offerings, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 represents a new vision in the market.
Free software is now available that enables Internet connections to be shared using Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.
In the Q1 2011 sales figures for mobile devices, released by Gartner today, shows that Android-based devices have taken the lead with 36 percent of the market thanks to the more than 36 million units sold.
According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released today, customer satisfactionfor Microsoft software has reached an all-time high of 78 on the 100-point scale.
See how System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) 2008 will help you manage them just like other desktops and laptops via Group Policy and more.
Barnes & Noble rolled out its legal defense brief on Monday, rebutting all of Microsoft's patent infringement claims.
So far, useful apps are hard to come by on Windows Phone 7 devices. But that doesn't mean there aren't any. Check out what apps we think are worth your time in the operating system's infancy.
ARM, maker of tablet and smartphone processor architectures, plans to release its Cortex-A15 system-on-chip at the end of 2012.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 04/21/2011