Is the Microsoft ship really sinking?
April 2010 and the news from Microsoft was the unveiling of a pair of handsets sourced from Sharp known as the Kin One and Kin Two. The devices were being marketed as Windows Phones, and while they’re ultimately based on most of the same underpinnings of Windows Phone 7, they were supposed to provide a [...]
Cloud goes app crazy!
Google looks to do for the ‘cloud’ what Apple successfully did for the mobile world by setting up a Cloud-based app store. But that could be easier said than done.
Is Microsoft re-inventing itself as the cloud and ‘Phone’ take priority?
You know times are a’changing when the CEO of Microsoft announces that 90 per cent of his staff will be working on cloud platforms by next year. Steve Ballmer even went one step further when he said he was “betting the company” on the Windows Azure cloud platform.
Inside the week that was
Big drop in fixed-line revenues Australians are dumping their fixed-lines at an alarming rate, 10% in the last six months to be exact. Local call volumes are down 13% for the same period and total PSTN revenues dropped by 6.9%. The decline was far greater than that forecast by CEO, David Thodey, only six months [...]
Microsoft & Murdoch Mull Gagging Google
Numerous reports are emerging that Microsoft and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, are in discussions about removing News Corporation indexes from Google and making its news content exclusively available on Microsoft’s Bing.
Ballmer publicly admits screw-ups on Windows Mobile
It has been reported that Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer has been criticising his own products, notably Windows Mobile at Microsoft’s Venture Capital Summit. One can only wonder why it’s taken him so long. You would think that falling market share of Windows powered smart phones, the success or offerings from Apple and Google and [...]
Omens for the fall of the Redmond empire?
What game do you suppose Microsoft is playing? When was the last time it came out with a totally new, innovative product that has taken the world by storm? It seems to have become a regular event for competitors like Apple, yet despite having become innovation ‘followers’ Microsoft continues to generate massive income from software [...]
Voicing Concerns
Microsoft subsidiary, Tellme® Networks Inc., recently announced a mobile voice service that combines content and communications, supposedly simplifying how people interact with their phones every day. Apple’s latest iPhone 3GS also boasts a voice activation feature, something that’s been around in mobile devices for years. But who, if anyone, makes use of these brilliant features? [...]
On mobile phone etiquette and the potential for cross-cultural air rage
Taiwan and China have the highest incidences of using the mobile phone in the loo, where 68 per cent and 66 per cent of users, respectively, admit that they do so. Read article…
Microsoft to buy RIM?
The industry rumour mill is in overdrive as speculation mounts that Microsoft is about make a bid to buy Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the Blackberry. Read article…