Microsoft’s mobile market fortunes continue to shrink, announces 2,850 layoffs
Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. clearly doesn’t expect its fortunes in the mobile devices market to improve anytime soon,…
Microsoft layoffs puts in question company’s mobile future
Microsoft Corp. announced it would be “streamlining” its mobile hardware business, taking a significant write-down of approximately…
This smartphone monitor-keyboard dock is disguised as a laptop
When we said we wanted to see whether device manufacturers could take the desktop-like capabilities of the Lumia 950…
Microsoft’s new Windows Phones can run as a desktop
TORONTO, ON – Remember Ubuntu for Android? The effort by Canonical to bring the free open-source operating…
Windows Phone sales rose amidst slowing smartphone shipment growth
Microsoft is gaining traction, albeit slowly, in a global smartphone market that is seeing slowed growth, a new…
BlackBerry, Windows Phone struggle in an Android & iOS world
Observers won’t be surprised to see BlackBerry nearly off the map in the latest mobile OS market…
CDN Digital Edition examines Apple-IBM partnership, Microsoft revamp
In the past few weeks there have been a few very interesting developments in the technology industry.…
Salesforce gains mobile launch pad with Microsoft partnership
Salesforce.com will be bringing its cloud-based CRM service to Windows Phone and more closely integrating it with…
Sophos MDM tool integrates file encryption, AV, Web filtering
Cloud-based file sharing sites were once thought of as purely consumer-focused, but in recent years a growing…
Windows Phone winning more business users: Microsoft
SAN FRANCISCO –Enterprise users are warming up to Windows Phone, according to Microsoft Corp. “Customers across different…
BlackBerry bringing BBM to Windows Phones and Nokia X
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) used to just be for BlackBerry smartphones. Then it came to the Apple iOS…
New Microsoft Store focuses on service
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Microsoft’s fourth retail location had its grand opening today at the Square One Shopping…
Bumpy road for IOS in the enterprise, research firm says
According to new findings ABI Research’s Enterprise Mobile Devices Research Service report, the consumerization of IT has reached a…
Microsoft buys Nokia’s devices business; Canadian CEO Elop becomes Ballmer’s heir apparent
In case you doubted Microsoft’s commitment to its devices and services transformation, the vendor put an exclamation…
Mobile business apps shake up
While Apple may be running away with the mobile consumer apps race, in the enterprise things are getting very interesting