Some Motorola Mobility smartphones infringe on a Microsoft patent and will be barred from importation to the United States, a U.S. trade panel said on Friday.

Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data centers.  The protests were a follow up to their recently released report, “How…

Sowohl Google als auch Microsoft wollen mit neuen Cloud-Angeboten Amazon Konkurrenz machen. Microsoft wird seine Pläne wohl zuerst der Öffentlichkeit vorstellen.

So much for open defiance against Microsoft. Guise Bule, CEO of TuCloud, has been forced to apologize, reports Ars Technica. He was ticked off that Microsoft had let a competitor, OnLive, offer a free cloud version of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office to iPad users.…

May 17 - Judy Saryan, Equity Fund Manager at Eaton Vance talks about why Apple and Microsoft are top holdings in the Dividend Builder Fund, and why she expects to see more tech dividends in the future.

250,000 students and faculty at Los Angeles community colleges will move to Microsoft Live@edu online communication and collaboration services after school system rejects Google Apps.

By Herr Hansa :The desire to access information anywhere and anytime will be met with a variety of mobile devices, through the small screens of smartphones and the slightly larger to much larger screens of tablets. Netbooks and laptops may be the losers in this shift toward mobile.…

In an interview, Amit Singhal , Google's global head for search engine technology, talks about the competition from Microsoft and Knowledge graph.

With Apple (AAPL) TV set rumors popping up every week, and Google (GOOG) doing whatever it can to make its TV platform a success, the TV industry is about to see a platform war commence that's similar to the mobile industry's fight, argues Forrester. And in that war, Microsoft (MSFT)…

Microsoft is overhauling Bing to make its online search engine more social.

Das Landgericht Hamburg untersagt dem Konzern, vor dem Kauf von gebrauchten OEM-Versionen zu warnen; das LG Berlin erklärt die Form der Durchsuchung der Geschäftsräume des Gebrauchtsoftware-Händlers NewXL für rechtswidrig.

Der Softwarekonzern will eine neue Werbeform etablieren: Die sogenannten "NUads" können auf Kamera und Audiosensoren des Kinect-Systems zugreifen und sollen Interaktion mit dem Nutzer ermöglichen.

Microsoft pushing the idea that cloud services offer more cost-effective security for SMBs than the alternative.

On-demand dynamic content service with flat-rate pricing may give Amazon's CloudFront an advantage against players including Akamai, Dell, and Microsoft.

After more than 12 years, it's clear that Steve Ballmer doesn't understand the organization or industry he's in. Can someone please tell me why this guy is still running Microsoft?

David Einhorn?s Greenlight Capital disclosed its first quarter long equity positions on Tuesday, cutting exposure across the tech spectrum, from Dell to Microsoft to Research in Motion.  Einhorn also sold out of Yahoo and bought some Xerox, while trimming his exposure to riskier gold…

By Vatalyst: While analysts expect Microsoft's (MSFT) earnings per share to grow by 11% from $2.72 to $3.04 going into its next fiscal year - impressive for a company Microsoft's size - its stock price is only expected to rise by about 29% to a high of $40 a share. That is a…

By HK Skeptic: Summary Nokia's (NOK) share price suggests that their choice of Windows over Android will consign them to becoming a minor player in the global mobile phone market, and potentially never to be profitable again. This is reflected in Nokia's valuation, as Nokia is…

[at Forbes] - If Microsoft is able to bridge the app gap between Windows Phone and other platforms, coupled with its initiative to invade the budget smartphone segment, it could help it become one of the top players in the smartphone market in the coming years.

By Sageworks, Inc: By Mary Ellen Biery Facebook's (FB) initial public offering, scheduled to begin trading on May 18, will have a rich valuation compared to other big tech players, according to Sageworks CEO Brian Hamilton, a noted expert on privately held companies."To put…

If you buy a new PC after June 2, you'll be able to upgrade to Windows 8 for $15, reports Supersite For Windows. That's pretty cheap, but it's not free and Microsoft has historically given away its OS for free to people who buy a new PC a few months before a new operating system comes out.…

The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email. MSFT Sideways In Positive Market    The market is rebounding as inflation stays flat and retail sales come in line. Shares of MSFT are up with tech. Catalysts for the stock include Windows 8,…

Microsoft wird voraussichtlich ab Anfang Juni ein Upgrade-Programm starten. Käufer eines PC mit Windows 7 erhalten dann die Option für ein kostenpflichtiges Upgrade auf Windows 8.

Rivals say new Microsoft operating system favors Internet Explorer over third-party browsers such as Firefox.