BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. is introducing its third new model in less than a year, a mid-sized device geared toward consumers who might prefer a full keyboard for typing text rather than the abridged one on the popular Pearl.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/03/2007
Capability will allow developers to program against Silverlight for both Windows and Mac environments using any .NET-supported languages
Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 platform got a boost on Monday when Research in Motion announced a new software suite that will provide phones running on WM6 with a "virtual" BlackBerry experience.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/24/2007
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is introducing a software application that can make Palm Treos and other Windows-based mobile devices made by rivals work like a BlackBerry
- By The Associated Press
- 04/23/2007
Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers, according to the latest assessment of the agency's security policies released Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
BlackBerry service was being restored Wednesday morning after an overnight outage that left millions of users without mobile access to their e-mail on the popular device.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Vonage Holdings Corp. is delivering conflicting messages on its ability to deploy a substitute technology should the Internet phone provider lose its bid to overturn a jury's verdict that it infringed on Verizon Communications Inc.'s patents.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
The legal trouble threatening Vonage Holdings Corp. doesn't yet appear to be rippling across the Internet phone industry, a stark contrast to last year's BlackBerry patent dispute that spooked existing and would-be users of the popular e-mail device.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. said Tuesday they expect no disruptions to consumers as the wireless industry heavyweights try to settle differences over licensing fees.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/11/2007
Smart phone maker Palm Inc. said Tuesday it will use a new platform based on Linux to help the company compete better.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/11/2007
Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. will be barred from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc., under an injunction ordered Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/06/2007
Microsoft this week announced the launch of ZenZui, an independent company partially funded by Microsoft created to market ZenZui's Zooming User Interface, which was patented by Microsoft and was first developed in the Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Research lab.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/29/2007
Microsoft's Live Labs applied research group announced Wednesday it is making a limited number of previews available for a new mobile browser technology it has intriguingly dubbed "Deepfish."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/29/2007
Speculation of a buyout of Palm Inc. heightened Tuesday after an industry online publication reported a deal could occur this week.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/21/2007
Microsoft will buy Tellme Networks, which provides voice-enabled mobile search, directory assistance and computerized, speech-driven customer service hotlines.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/14/2007
Computer maker Lenovo Inc. on Thursday recalled about 100,000 lithium-ion batteries used in ThinkPad laptops after receiving four reports of the Sanyo-built batteries overheating.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/01/2007
At Embedded World 2007 in Nuremberg, Germany Tuesday, Microsoft announced it is shipping a developers kit for the smallest of its device systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/13/2007
Data portability stalwart Laplink says it will ship its PCmover for Windows Vista package in time for commercial availability of Vista later this month.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/10/2007
At the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft announced that its Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) group has released its MSN Direct navigation services.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/09/2007
Microsoft began shipping the release candidate for Virtual PC 2007 this week, putting the virtualization environment on track for final shipment in the first quarter as expected.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2007