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Microsoft CEO Optimistic About Windows Phone
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a few moments during his company s financial analyst meeting to put a brave face on its smartphone efforts. It was under a year ago that we launched the first Windows Phone, he told an audience of media and analysts gathered to hear Microsoft executives run down the company s…
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RIM Promises BlackBerry PlayBook Updates
Research In Motion reported revenues of $4.2 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, a 15 percent decline from the $4.9 billion it earned during the previous quarter. The company shipped some 10.6 million BlackBerry smartphones and around 200,000 BlackBerry-branded PlayBook tablets during that period. RIM s aging BlackBerry portfolio continued to drag on…
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Microsoft Rolls Out Tools, Windows 8 Server, Cloud Services at BUILD
ANAHEIM, Calif. Microsoft announced a series of moves meant to advance developer opportunities and productivity, including a developer preview of Visual Studio 2011, a preview of Windows Server 8 and the company s Team Foundation Server (TFS) delivered as a service on the Windows Azure cloud. In a Sept. 14 keynote at the Microsoft BUILD…
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Google ITA Launches Flight Search
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Sept. 13 revealed Flight Search, which lets users search for airline flights and fares right from Google. Google Flight Search is the first fruit of Google’s integration of ITA Software, the flight data provider it purchased in April after a protracted antitrust investigation by the Justice Department. The service will compete with popular…