Microsoft: Mobile
New Windows Phone “Ad Mediator” Lets Developers Stack Ad Networks
Today Microsoft released Windows Ad Mediator, an extension to help Windows Phone app developers fill more ad inventory. The extension allows...
Report: Mobile Grabbed One-Third Of Global Search Spend In Q3
A third of all paid search spend went to mobile in the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 180 percent year-over-year. Mobile search volume...
Windows Phones Flat As Xiaomi Becomes Globe’s Third Largest OEM
In something of a surprise Android-based smartphone maker Xiaomi has overtaken LG to become the world’s third largest OEM after Samsung...
Microsoft Band: Cross-Platform Wearable With Cortana Baked In
Wearables are here to stay. The question now is what’s the right design, feature set and price. Yesterday Microsoft made its opening...
Microsoft Redesigns MSN Portal For Multi-Platform Era
Microsoft has redesigned its portal site MSN to make it more cross-platform and ad friendly as well as more personalized. It’s a...
Microsoft Cutting 18K Jobs As It Integrates Nokia And Tries To “Move Faster”
Driven in part by its Nokia hardware acquisition and a recognition of the need to restructure for “post-PC” competitiveness,...
Forecast: In 2015, There Will Be About 4 Android Devices For Every Windows Or Mac/iOS Device In 2015
Android devices already beat Windows, Mac and iOS devices by a wide margin, and a new forecast from Gartner sees that growing even more in...
Dueling Smartwatches: Google, Apple, Microsoft Have Designs On Your Wrist
People have been anticipating an Apple smartwatch for what seems like a very long time now. However it’s unlikely, at tomorrow’s...
Nadella Interview: Bing To Stay, ‘Post-PC’ Now The Way
Several days ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave his first in-depth interview at the Code Conference. He spoke about a wide range of issues...
Android To Hit 80 Percent Market Share This Year — Report
Smartphone growth continues according to the latest “shipments share” numbers from IDC. The firm anticipates Android will reach 80...
Microsoft Releases Advertising SDKs And Tools For Windows App Monetization
Though Cortana is has generated the biggest headlines from Microsoft’s annual Build Conference, the company dangled a few new carrots to...
Traditional PCs Shrink To 10 Percent Of Device Market In 2015
IT consulting firm Gartner projected today that overall device shipments (not sales) would increase this year by nearly 7 percent vs. 2013. Sale...
Can Nokia X Android Devices Sell More Windows Phones?
The irony of Nokia introducing low-end Android smartphones upon being absorbed into Microsoft is obvious. Had the company put out Android...
Microsoft Assistant “Cortana” Coming Soon To Phones, PC, Xbox
For months the tech press has been writing about the imminent arrival of Microsoft’s answer to Siri: Cortana. The virtual assistant is...
As Microsoft Figures Out Next Mobile Move, Apple & Android Grab 94 Percent Of Smartphone Market
According to hardware tracking firm IDC, “Android and iOS accounted for 95.7 percent of all smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of...
What 2014 Holds For Mobile Marketing: 5 Predictions
It’s that time again. That’s right, I’m talking about 2014 mobile marketing prediction time. A few weeks ago, I asked some of...
Report: Apple Gains Smartphone Share But The iPad Slips
Ad network Chitika is out this morning with a post-holiday analysis of smartphone and tablet traffic. Based on “tens of millions of...
Microsoft Surface 2 Growth Outpaces Kindle, Nexus Tablets
Ad network Chitika has released data showing that Microsoft Surface 2 driven web traffic has grown at a faster rate (on a percentage basis) than...
Forecast: Mobile Devices To Eclipse PCs In Q4 This Year
IDC has released its latest devices forecast arguing that tablets will overtake PC shipments (desktop + laptops) in Q4 of this year. The firm...
Post BBQ News: Microsoft Buys Most Of Nokia For $7.2 Billion
Many people in the US returned from Labor-Day barbecues to discover that Microsoft had acquired Nokia’s hardware business for roughly $5...