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Microsoft announced today a series of executive promotions and Andy Lees will be the company’s mobile chief as it is about to go to battle with Windows Phone 7. Lees will officially become the President of the Mobile Communications Business and he was integral in helping to create Windows Phone 7. “Today’s promotions underscore the…
Microsoft is suing Motorola over alleged patent infringements on its Android phones like the Droid X. Microsoft said Motorola is infringing on multiple patents “that are essential to the smartphone user experience, including synchronizing email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power.” In a blog post,…
We know that the launch of the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform is right around the corner but we just couldn’t wait to show it off to you in HD video. We spoke with Microsoft at the Mobilize conference in San Francisco and you can watch a walk through of the software in the video…
Yesterday we had heard from one RIM VP that BlackBerry smartphones would, in the long haul, be loaded up with the QNX operating system running on their recently-announced PlayBook tablet. Though that one source hardly locked down the possibility of such a switch, some fellow bloggers have prodded VPs on the matter and yielded comments…
If you’ve been keeping up with the news, it’s no surprise where Apple stands with the iPhone. It has been losing some market share to Android, Google’s rapidly growing operating system, but the iPhone is still special. The infographic above just shows where it stands in the U.S., and globally. Poor little Steve Jobs is…
Over a breakfast event today at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, a RIM VP confirmed that the QNX operating system announced in their new PlayBook tablet would in fact be finding its way to smartphones in the long run, and ultimately replace the existing BlackBerry OS. Of course that kind of major transition would take time,…
Several years ago a concept video (below) went around the internet that showed a future Nokia device bending, folding, and doing things that today are still not possible due to limited advances in both circuit and battery technology. Now that doesn’t mean Nokia isn’t trying to make fantasy into reality however. In the video above…
RIM just announced their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet device, powered by the QNX operating system that the BlackBerry maker recently acquired, at the BlackBerry DevCon 2010 opening keynote in San Francisco. A bunch of RIM higher-ups took to the stage to talk about all kinds of developer-focused services and tools, but the highlight of the 2.5…
It’s what BlackBerry fanatics have been waiting for, and it’s finally here — a tablet computer from RIM. Gone is the BlackPad name, though no one was ever really sure that’s what it would be called, and instead we have the BlackBerry PlayBook. It has multitasking, Flash, music multimedia and despite its capabilities and its…
The Nexus One has seen its fair share of ROMs and operating systems that were not intended for it, and Android’s open source nature is to thank for this. Well, we now have yet another mobile operating system ported to the N1. We just got word that the Maemo 5 successor, MeeGo has been ported…