Nokia has been working with Microsoft for quite some time, creating flagship Windows Phone handsets for Microsoft’s mobile platform. Recently, Microsoft purchased Nokia’s mobile phone business. This has prompted strikes among Nokia’s workers in China who have accused the company of offering them weaker packages as a result of the deal.
Nearly two decades ago, Winamp was one of the most popular media players. Especially effective in running MP3 content, Winamp was among the top throughout the 90s. But then AOL acquired it and pretty much wrecked it in the subsequent years. Now, the company has announced that it will be shutting down Winamp by December 20, 2013.
Earlier we have seen Staples offering 32GB Surface RT tablet for $424. Now what we have come to know that is Staples will sell HP ChromeBook for $180 and Kindle Fire for $80 on Black Friday.
Twitter’s expected IPO had been causing a lot of stir in the tech-finance arena for quite some time now. The company announced a share price of $26 and hoped for an $18.3 billion valuation. But as soon as Twitter went public, there was strong investor interest and the share price surged up to $45.10
When Microsoft unveiled its first-generation Surface slates, they comprised of a Windows RT Surface tablet and one running Windows 8. The ‘RT’ branding apparently caused a lot of confusion and Microsoft has now decided to stop using ‘RT’ in the name of any further Surface slates.
Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer, has long been lambasted and criticized for providing inadequate security. However, the company seems adamant on providing better security features in IE 11. To that end, Microsoft recently paid $28,000 to six researchers who were able to find key bugs in IE 11.
We all know that Yahoo is recycling email accounts. And now like Yahoo, software giant Microsoft has started recycling email accounts too.
Samsung Electronics launched its ChatON Messaging Service two years ago in 2011. Lately, the company proudly announces that its ChatON now has a global subscriber base of over 100 million users.