Samsung announced a deal to enable Galaxy smartphone owners to download Nokia’s Here mapping app. While the move may signal Samsung’s eagerness to move away from Android, it may be the… Read more »
While carrying some amount of risk and a high amount of resistance from entrenched vendors, modular handsets may present a viable economic and ecological alternative as we look toward the inevitable… Read more »
Number crunching leads to some not too surprising results for Microsoft’s Surface, which is increasingly looking like a boat anchor, pulling the company down. The company’s 8-K statement filed with the… Read more »
Nokia’s handset sales are flagging as Microsoft closes its acquisition of the manufacturer, and Windows Phone has recently lost market share in major markets such as the U.S. and China. But… Read more »
The Nokia deal is done. Microsoft now owns the mobile phone part of the pioneering Finnish communications company that famously missed the transition to touch and watched its fortunes crumble. Back… Read more »
Analysts continue to unpack the generally well-received announcements that Microsoft has unfurled since Satya Nadella ascended to the position of CEO last month. In his Weekly Update, Stowe Boyd, the Gigaom… Read more »
Cortana, Microsoft’s clone of Apple’s Siri, got a lot of the attention and ink during last week’s Build conference, but the real news was something more foundational, and economic. Microsoft showed… Read more »
Satya Nadella is continuing his rapid reconfiguration of the partly reorganized Microsoft he had handed to him a few months ago, most importantly making Scott Guthrie EVP of Cloud and Enterprise,… Read more »
Anyone who reads the new Gigaom Research report, 3D Printing: hype, hope or threat?, will be taken through a deflation of the hype to the hope of the technology, likely wondering:… Read more »
Although tablet prices are dropping and devices are getting smaller, competition from emerging connected devices such as wearables, phablets, and convertible laptops is slowing market growth. Read more »