Sourgraping Intel said Nokia should have gone with Android

Release Date 7 Mar, 2011 in Manila Bulletin

 
   

The Technology Newsbucket: Fresh IFPI piracy crackdown in London, Windows ...

The Guardian (blog) - 7 Mar, 2011
"IFPI has proudly announced a new copyright enforcement initiative. It boils down to this: IFPI will submit allegedly infringing websites to the London police department's Economic Crime Directorate. Once the division has "verified the evidence," it ...

Sourgraping Intel said Nokia should have gone with Android

Manila Bulletin - Jerry Liao - 7 Mar, 2011
MANILA, Philippines - After Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Nokia is better off with Android than Windows Phone 7. Yes, this was after Nokia announced that the company will be using Windows ...

Nokia announces long-term software, developer strategies

Philippine Star - Manny N. De Los Reyes - 7 Mar, 2011
MANILA, Philippines - In a bid to clarify all the talk pertaining to their Helsinki-based head office's announcement that their smartphones will be using the Windows platform, Nokia Philippines held a press conference last week and released several key ...

Moonlighting within Microsoft, in pursuit of new apps

San Jose Mercury News - Anne Eisenberg - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
If you have a smartphone, you probably have apps on it to check the news, play games, help with shopping or further a hobby like travel or bird watching. But chances are that you don't yet have Bubblegum -- a new app that lets you ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 update resumes for Samsung devices

Tehran Times - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Microsoft is resuming its latest Windows Phone 7 software update to Samsung smartphones, which it had pulled in the wake of users reporting technical glitches. “Starting, we plan to resume rolling out the February update to Samsung phones,” Michael ...

Windows Phone 7 update woes continue: Fix doesn't fix some Samsungs

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
This week, after halting the process for Samsungs last week, Microsoft released a fix for the botched update. “During the past week the engineering team has pinpointed and fixed problems that were preventing a small percentage of Windows Phones from ...

Microsoft is dead money

MarketWatch - John C. Dvorak - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) " Investors in Microsoft Corp. must be beside themselves as the market climbs. The company seems to be dead money since 2000, and recent events aren't rekindling any excitement. ...

Microsoft Tablet OS Not Due Until 2012

Forbes - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Windows-maker will reportedly not launch a tablet-focused operating system for at least another year. Microsoft reportedly will not launch a tablet computer operating system until the 2012 back-to-school season. Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft ...

Samsung Windows Phone 7 Update Hits New Snag

PCWorld - Nancy Gohring - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
After resuming the update to Samsung Windows phones on Wednesday, Microsoft is running into problems again. Users on a Microsoft help forum are reporting that when they try to install the update, which was designed to improve ...

Report: No Microsoft Tablet OS Until 2012, Windows 8

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman, Sara Yin - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Microsoft won't have a dedicated operating system for the tablet market until the release of Windows 8 sometime next year, according to a report on Friday. Bloomberg reported that Microsoft won't have a true offering for the tablet ...

Windows Phone 7: Will NoDo show? Has Mango gone soft?

ZDNet (blog) - Mary Jo Foley - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
What's the latest with the Windows Phone 7 update saga? Will NoDo show next week? And has Mango gone soft? Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, ...

No Windows 8 Tablet OS Until 2012?

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Microsoft reportedly won't have a version of its operating system ready for slate-style PCs for at least another 18 months. By Paul McDougall , InformationWeek Microsoft won't release a version of the Windows operating system geared for tablet ...

Microsoft Won't Have Tablet-Tailored Windows Until 2012

Forbes (blog) - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
By AGUSTINO FONTEVECCHIA Microsoft won't have a platform to compete in the tablet market until the 2012 back-to-school season, Bloomberg said. The company founded by Bill Gates will be more than 2 years late to the red hot tablet market, which, ...

Microsoft blows Windows Phone update, again

Register - Bill Ray - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Samsung users who held off updating after hearing about the problems last time are being told to hold off again as the fixed fix isn't really fixed at all. This time it seems that owners of the Samsung Omnia 7 ...

Reports: Windows tablets in 2012, demo by June?

Washington Post - Hayley Tsukayama - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
A Friday report from Bloomberg suggests that Microsoft will not launch a tablet version of Windows until the late summer or early fall of 2012. The report builds off a few Windows 8 and tablet rumors that have been building past ...

MSFT: No Tablet OS Till 2012, Says Bloomberg

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Bloomberg's Ian King and Dina Bass this morning write that Microsoft (MSFT) will not have a competing tablet operating system until 2012, citing anonymous sources “with knowledge of the plans.” King and Bass note that Microsoft is ...

Windows Phone 7 update failing again

CNET - David Meyer - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Windows Phone 7 updates for Samsung handsets using that operating system are still not working, according to online forum reports. Microsoft restarted the rollout Wednesday, 10 days after it first tried pushing out the update--a ...

iPad 3 Could Ship Before Rival Windows Tablet

PCWorld - Daniel Ionescu - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
This time next year Steve Jobs may take to the stage and introduce the iPad 3, while Microsoft is still working on a tablet-tailored Windows, according to a Bloomberg report. A few months after, though, ...

Microsoft tablet OS to see light of day in 'autumn 2012'

Register - Kelly Fiveash - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer was given a gentle kick up the backside late last year by the company's board, after he failed to move quickly enough against Apple's iPad and lost market share in the mobile ...

Update problems continue to plague Windows Phone

Inquirer - Rob Coppinger - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
THE WINDOWS PHONE 7 (WP7) update process is becoming a protracted embarrassment not only for Microsoft but for Samsung as well. Despite stopping the update process for the Omnia 7, amongst other handsets, the restart was expected to ...

No Microsoft tablet OS until September 2012

Inquirer - Rob Coppinger - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
SOFTWARE BEHEMOTH Microsoft is going to come to the tablet operating system market very late if it is true that the release date will be in about September of next year. By then Ipad 3 will likely be out or imminent with whatever ...

Windows tablet OS is due in 2012, says report

ZDNet UK - Steven Musil - ‎Mar 4, 2011‎
Microsoft does not plan to challenge Apple and Google with a new tablet operating system until late 2012, according to a published report. The software giant will not release a Windows operating system ...

Report: Microsoft's tablet OS not due until 2012

CNET (blog) - Steven Musil - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Microsoft doesn't plan to challenge Apple and Google with a new tablet operating system until the latter part of next year, according to a published report. The software giant won't release a Windows operating system tailored especially ...

So Microsoft Gets A Tablet Out In Two Years -- Then What? (MSFT)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Microsoft has a come-from-behind strategy that's working in search and could eventually pay off in smartphones. But it might not be able to use the same strategy for tablets when it finally releases Windows 8 for tablets in late 2012. ...

Microsoft Will Enter The Tablet Game In Late 2012 (MSFT, AAPL)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is hoping to have Windows 8 tablets available in time for the back to school season. In 2012. The report cites confidential sources, and it's in line with what we've heard as well. That's more than two years after Apple ...

Report: Next version of Windows for tablets coming in fall 2012

Seattle Times - Sharon Pian Chan - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Microsoft's next version of Windows, which will compete with Apple and Google to run on tablets, is unlikely to come out until fall 2012, Bloomberg reports. The Bloomberg report cited unnamed sources with knowledge of the plans, who said public testing ...

Microsoft Resumes Windows Phone 7 Updates for Samsung Devices

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Microsoft on Wednesday resumed the roll-out of its first Windows Phone 7 update to Samsung phones. The software giant suspended updates to Samsung devices last week after a glitch prompted the update to fail for certain users. ...

Windows Phone update for Samsung users fixed

CNET (blog) - Josh Lowensohn - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Microsoft says it's fixed an issue with the Windows Phone 7 system software update that had caused some users headaches, and left others with unusable phones. The problem first cropped up shortly after Microsoft began rolling out a ...

Samsung Windows Phone updates back on track

ZDNet UK (blog) - David Meyer - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Microsoft has resumed its rollout of updates for Samsung Windows Phone 7 handsets, after the first batch 'bricked' some devices. The updates started to return on Wednesday, according to a blog post by ...

Microsoft Resumes Windows Phone 7 Updates

PCWorld - Daniel Ionescu - ‎Mar 3, 2011‎
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software update is back on track after bugs with the upgrade bricked a small number of Samsung phones. About ten percent of Windows Phone 7 smartphones owners had problems with ...

 

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