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Microsoft Demanded To Samsung For Paying $15 Of Each Smartphone Handset Sold

Android is already a leading platform for smartphones with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 trailing extremely far behind, although Microsoft hopes that will change with their Mango update and new WP7 devices. In April last year, Microsoft said it had reached a licensing deal with Taiwan’s HTC Corp, under which it would receive royalty payments on its handsets running Android.

Microsoft And Wistron Merge Togather Against Android and Chrome OS

Microsoft and Wistron come to terms in royalty agreement, Android and Chrome OS now targeted. Wistron Corp, a spinoff of Acer, is the latest company to make an agreement with Microsoft in a string of lawsuits and royalty clashes that’s spanned the course of two months.

Microsoft’s Bing App For iPad Released

Microsoft has released a Bing application for the iPad in April this year. On July 5, they have updated that app. In this update they adding a new touch-search capability known as Lasso, to the release. Bing is a decision engine that’s been designed to work beautifully with your iPad. Bing for iPad brings you closer to what you’re looking for by delivering a visually rich, touch-enabled way to search and browse news, movies, Bing homepage images, local businesses, popular searches and much more.

China-Based Alibaba Planning To Develop New Mobile OS To Counter Google Android & Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS

China-based Alibaba Group is reportedly planning to develop and launch its own mobile operating system to rival Google’s Android platform and Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, which will comeing in the third quater. The new OS will offer cloud-based services like mobile apps and the platform may also be actively marketed by the company to the growing number of mobile phone and CE companies that sell their gear via Alibaba……

New App Demonstrated To Capture 3D Video With Microsoft’s Kinect Through iPad2

Augmented Reality Microsoft Kinect is a controller that has the ability to capture your motion and work accordingly And it is an XBox controller, now iOS developer Laan Labs used the String Augmented Reality SDK to display real-time 3d video+audio recorded from the Kinect and it makes you think of the diversity of possibilities to augment people in a new reality………….

Microsoft Released Facebook For Windows Phone 2

Facebook 2.0 finally brings push notifications to Windows Phone 7 and for those of you that’ve been waiting with baited breath, included are notifications for: messages, wall posts, feed comments and replies, photo tags and replies, or in short about everything your addiction requires. Version 2.0 adds push notifications and live tile support to the app, as well as improves scrolling and overall behavior and also users can now opt to have notifications in both toast and live tile form…………

Microsoft, Apple, Ericsson, RIM, Sony and EMC – The Whole Consortium Outbids Google Of Nortel Telecommunications Patents

Nortel Networks announced that it had sold its juggernaut patent portfolio to a consortium made up of the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and RIM for a hefty sum of $4.5 billion cash and Sony, Ericsson, and EMC will now have access to more than 6,000 patents that relate to all manner of technologies, including 4G LTE wireless capabilities, Wi-Fi, semiconductors, and social networking. Each company in the consortium could have paid $750 million each, significantly less than Google’s original $900 million bid and it is not clear if each company contributed equally or will equally share in ownership of the patents in question………….

Microsoft Office 365 Launches Globally

Microsoft Corp. just announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company's newest cloud service. Microsoft after making its beta debut last year, Office 365 is officially ready to lunch…