The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show didn't technically kick off until Tuesday morning, but already, Nokia's Lumia 900 has become one of the most buzzed-about products.
Microsoft toasted the demise of Internet Explorer 6 today. According to Net Market Share, IE6 usage has dipped below 1% in the United States, joining other web-savvy countries such as Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway.
The Federal Trade Commission’s year-long investigation into Google’s user privacy practices only finished a few months ago, but two U.S. senators have decided that two months is too long, and have called for the FTC to look into Google all over again, this time focusing on the company’s dominance in the search industry.
The current smartphone intender market is one I am very interested in. It’s up for grabs. In the U.S., this group presents a sizable opportunity. Nielsen has recently published some data suggesting that 44% of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones. So more than half of the U.S. population falls into what we call smartphone intenders.
Bill Gates has shot down reports that he’ll ever go back to work full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded 36 years ago.
A few best- and worst-case scenarios for the year ahead, on Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and more.
The chance to try Windows 8 in beta form may be just a couple months away. Citing “sources close to Microsoft,” The Next Web reports that Microsoft will launch a public beta of Windows 8 in late February.
Yahoo has lost more than half of its value in the last four years, according to a valuation by Silver Lake Partners. The company, working with Microsoft and TPG Capital, has valued the company at $20.6 billion, far below the $44.6 billion the company was estimated to be worth by Microsoft when the latter bid [...]
Research firm Forrester has conducted a survey that supposedly reveals that consumer interest in Windows-based tablets–once quite high–is now tanking. If I were a Microsoft honcho, these results wouldn’t worry me much, for several reasons.
Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world’s dominant personal-computer operating system–a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often infuriating and largely unavoidable piece of software. Windows’ market share has been so overwhelming for so long that there are adults who don’t know what life was like before it.
Microsoft’s leaked social search plans over the summer were no fluke; the company is working on its own social network called “Socl” that will be tested publicly, according to The Verge.
