Feb
11
2010
According to the gadget website T3, Microsoft Senior Product Manager Mike Tedesco recently let it be known that the Seattle based company is currently toying with the possibility of creating a version of their Office [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: ipad, Microsoft, News, office, rumor, Rumors, Software
Feb
11
2010
Former Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, and Windows Vista honcho, Bill Allchin, had an email exchange back in 2003 when Apple launched iTunes and were rather candid about how well Steve Jobs put it together, and [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: bill gates, iTunes, jim allchin, Microsoft, News, The competition
Jan
31
2010
Prior to Steve Jobs laying into Google and Adobe, Google, Nokia, Microsoft, and Nintendo got their shots in on Apple and the iPad, and here’s what they had to say:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “You might [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: ceo-snap, Google, ipad, Microsoft, News, nintendo, nokia
Jan
21
2010
Jim Goldman of CNBC claims to have a source that is giving up some goods on the whole Apple and Microsoft teaming up against Google fiasco story:
Microsoft wants part of the iPhone pie as the [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: bing, Eric Schmidt, Google, Microsoft, News, Search, Steve Jobs
Jan
20
2010
Business Insider is reporting that, given Google’s new rise to smartphone rival, Apple is now in talks with previous-generation frenemy Microsoft to replace the iPhone’s default search engine with Bing.
“Apple and Google know [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: bing, Google, Microsoft, Rumors, search wars
Jan
7
2010
Microsoft and Ford were showing off the third version of Ford Sync at CES, and Casey and Phil from Android Central and I jumped in and got a demo. The good news is that it [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: ces, ces 2010, ford sync, Microsoft, microsoft sycn, News
Jan
7
2010
I saw Microsoft’s massive booth at CES and a giant Bing sign so, optimistically, I went on over to talk with them while our friends from WMExperts hit up the devices. The Bing folks were [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, bing, ces, ces 2010, Microsoft
Jan
6
2010
So the rumor is Steve is about to introduce a new tablet device — no, not Steve Jobs of Apple, but his nemesis Steve Ballmer of Microsoft — and he’s rumored to be doing it [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: ballmer, ces, ces 2010, itablet, Microsoft, News
Dec
22
2009
PCWorld, ReadWrite Enterprise, and 9to5mac all have interesting “what-if” articles up that describes a mirror universe where Apple and Microsoft unite to fight off the advances of an all-powerful Google.
Admittedly a lot has happened [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Google, Microsoft, mirror universe, News
Dec
17
2009
Paul Thurrott over at the Windows Supersite Blog posted this up in reference to Microsoft’s apparent strategy so far when it comes to Windows Mobile and Zune.
Funny.
Steve Jobs likes to quote hockey legend [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: dilbert, Humor, Microsoft, The competition, windows mobile, zune
Dec
16
2009
Microsoft has just made Bing [Free - iTunes app] their second iPhone and iPod touch app (no, Office wasn’t first — that’s still MIA — the amazing image-zooming Seadragon was), and it’s fairly impressive. It [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, bing, Microsoft, News, Quick Apps, Search
Oct
7
2009
ZDnet is reporting that Microsoft has plans to port their Zune software over to other platforms… and that means rumors of Zune on iPhone.
“Zune is a music and video service from Microsoft. Period, Our next [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: iPhone, Microsoft, News, Rumors, Software, zune
Oct
6
2009
Microsoft today takes the wrappers off their latest generation of mobile software and services, and our good friend George Ponder from sibling site WMExpert.com gives us the details in his complete Windows Mobile 6.5 review. [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Microsoft, News, The competition, windows marketplace for mobile, windows mobile 6.5, windows phone
Oct
6
2009
Rumor has it Microsoft is on the verge of axing the Pink Project. Come on, you remember those Pure Turtle phones we’ve been hearing about for months? The ones built by the former Danger/Sidekick team [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Microsoft, pink, pure, rumor, Rumors, The competition, turtle
Oct
1
2009
While TiPb is still waiting for an iPhone 3.1.1 bug-fix update, not to mention iPhone 3.2 betas to start dropping, it looks like the competition is getting their OS on this week:
Palm webOS 1.2 [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: andorid, android 1.6 donut, BlackBerry, Microsoft, News, palm, rim, The competition, webos, webos 1.2, windows mobile 6.5
Sep
24
2009
Some feel there’s got to be more to this Microsoft Pink platform, Turtle and Pure phone concept than meets the eye. We’re wondering if, like Newman on Seinfeld, there’s actually less?
Could it really just be [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Microsoft, News, pink, pure, sidekick, The competition, turtle
Sep
23
2009
While everyone is waiting on Apple to unveil their universally rumored iTablet/iPad device next year, Gizmodo has just scored the scoop on what Microsoft just might be planning to counter it — the “Courier” tablet.
Decidedly [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: courier, itablet, Microsoft, News, The competition
Sep
18
2009
Now this is something from Microsoft that we’re really excited about — Office Web Apps that take the traditional second pillar of Microsoft’s business and launch it up into the iPhone Safari browser-compatible cloud.
We’d prefer [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft office, News, Web Apps, webapps
Sep
1
2009
Learn that Name for the iPhone, coming soon to the iTunes App Store for $2.99, beat out 14 other apps and walked away with top honour at the Startup Weekend’s 54-hour coding marathon. Oh, and [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Development, learn that name, Microsoft, News, startup weekend
Aug
26
2009
Could Apple eventually gain monopoly status in one or more businesses, and become as “evil” (or worse) as Microsoft was when regulators went after them in the 1990s? Windows pundit Paul Thurrott thinks so, and [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Editorial, Google, Microsoft, monopoly, thurrott