With Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) as Customers British Chip Designers ARM Holdings Plc (ARMH) Competes with Intel (INTC) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will preview a Windows operating system designed for tablets this week that will compete directly with Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPad, reports Bloomberg. British chip designer ARM Holdings Plc created the technology used in [...]
Search engine giant Google will sell bonds for the first time, in order to increase its domestic cash reserves by $3bn, at a time when a drop in US Treasury yields have caused corporate borrowing costs to fall to record lows. Google will sell three, five, and ten year bonds. There are several reasons for [...]
Microsoft Corporation has considerably exceeded the Wall Street expectations with Q3 results. Despite drop in PC sales, adversely affecting the revenues from software giant’s Windows operating system, Microsoft has achieved a net profit growth of 31% on the back of successful sales of Office 2010 as well as gaming consoles Xbox 360 and controller Kinect, [...]
Nokia and Microsoft have signed a partnership agreement under which the Finnish company will manufacture smartphones based on Windows Phone operating system. Nokia has noted that this deal will save the company about 1.5 billion dollars annually. The first smartphone based on WP7 is expected to be launched next year. Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, said [...]
In the continuing battle between tech behemoths Google and Microsoft for government cloud contracts, Google says that the guys at Redmond have resorted to false allegations to win. According to Google, it isn’t true that it has made false claims about features of its cloud-based suite of software to win government contracts. This comes after [...]
In a new planned partnership between Washington state and Microsoft, the technology powerhouse will be supplying software and training to every high school within the state. The news comes from an announcement made on Monday by Washington’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn. According to Dorn’s statement, he is close to an agreement with [...]
Microsoft has finally broken its silence over “Phantom Data” that is related to significantly high cellular data usage by the gadgets running on Windows Phone 7. While suspecting and putting the blame on third-party service, it said that it may necessarily be the OS itself. The ‘phantom data’ issue surfaced recently in which some users [...]
Though Microsoft figures show the sale of their smartphone to be around the 1.5 million mark, the product is considered to have underachieved. The phone rarely make the talking points of magazines and Microsoft itself has not said much about the device which is uncharacteristic of the company which enjoys a good boast about one [...]
With the imminent launch of the Playstation phone and Nintendo 3DS gaming console, Microsoft has described its Windows Phone 7 as its mobile console. Kevin Unangst Microsoft’s senior director of PC and mobile gaming said the new Windows Phone 7 operating system represented the company’s gaming efforts. “This is our mobile platform for games,” said [...]
Nvidia Corp., the electronics manufacturer famous for its production of computer graphics processing units (GPU), plans to challenge Intel Corp. as it revealed plans to manufacture computer central processing units (CPU). Nvidia revealed that it has won the rights to produce CPUs under ARM holdings, a British firm concentrated on microprocessor Intellectual Property. The move [...]
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