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Microsoft Windows Phone is losing to... Bada
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John Moe
Aug 12, 2011
The big question here is: what the heck is Bada? It's a mobile phone platform from Samsung (Samsung!) that is outselling the much heralded and oft...
Microsoft momentarily reveals new social network thing
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John Moe
Jul 15, 2011
Microsoft is calling it an accident but for a little while yesterday visitors to socl.com were greeted with a project codenamed Tulalip (name of a...
Microsoft banning terrible passwords from Hotmail
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John Moe
Jul 15, 2011
You don't normally think of Hotmail as being the most forward looking web application. It's often accused of being clunky, spammy, just old and...
It's Facebook "something awesome" day
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John Moe
Jul 6, 2011
Today's the day Facebook announces what has only officially been described as "something awesome". Therefore, among the possibilities: the '75...
Microsoft cloud data policy ruffles Europe
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John Moe
Jul 6, 2011
Microsoft confirmed that data on its European servers can be handed over to American investigators because of the Patriot Act. This can be done wi...
Good news for Android in new Comscore scores
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John Moe
Jul 6, 2011
We get these periodic reports from Comscore that indicate exactly where the trends are going in terms of personal electronics, particularly smartp...
Microsoft and Baidu team up
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John Moe
Jul 5, 2011
Baidu is the dominant search engine in China and the fourth most visited web site in the world. Being in China, of course, means that Baidu censors...
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Windows Phone finally gets Angry Birds
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John Moe
Jun 29, 2011
So what, so it's a video game that's on a phone, big deal. Yeah yeah, I know. But I think this says a lot about Microsoft right now. Angry Birds...
Microsoft getting all Googly with Office 365
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John Moe
Jun 28, 2011
As discussed on Marketplace Morning Report this morning, Microsoft is launching another effort to take on Google in the area of cloud computing, t...
Myspace to lay off 150 people
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John Moe
Jun 28, 2011
If that was Microsoft or Google, you wouldn't think twice about it. But Myspace only has about 400 employees as of today and by end of day tomorrow...