Microsoft and HTC agree Android patent deal

Figures shows that almost half of the smartphones sold in the UK in the last three months were powered by Android, Google's smartphone operating system, with RIM's BlackBerry phones coming in second with 22.5 percent, and an 18.5...

Microsoft has developed the web based version of its Windows Phone Marketplace application store.The web based store’s launch coincides with the release of the much awaited Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update which brings more...

Search engine giant Google has asked the US International Trade Commission to ban a Microsoft expert from testifying in an ongoing lawsuit between the latter and Motorola.The company said that Microsoft had violated the...

Internet search giant Google’s top legal officer has officially accused rivals Microsoft, Oracle and Apple of making “bogus” patent claims which may eventually lead to the costs of the company’s Android...

Software giant Microsoft might be latest in line to stir a privacy controversy after Google and Apple, as its Live.com website exposes location data of millions of users.According to CNET, the company has stored location data...

Google plans to end support for ageing web browsers on its Google Apps platform. In a blog post Google explained that certain functionalities present on its Google Apps platform require modern web browsers to function properly,...

Google is following the footsteps of Microsoft and Apple by seeking to implement some sense of order in the rather chaotic world of ARM, the architecture that powers nearly all the devices that run on Android, Google's mobile...

Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Barnes & Nobel and its partners, Foxconn International Holdings Ltd and Inventec Corporation, alleging that their Android based Nook e-reader violates its patents. The...

Google's Android smartphone OS has overtaken Microsoft's Windows Mobile in the smartphone sales chart produced by Gartner's crystal ball rubbers today. Android knocked Windows Mobile into fifth spot in the chart for the first...

Dutch website Tweaker.net has leaked the confidential manufacturing details of Microsoft's Windows 7 mobile phone, which was announced by the software gaint at the Mobile World Congress in February 2010. The Dutch website, which...

There are a number of similarities between Google and Toyota, the Japanese car manufacturer. A few hours ago, an executive told US congressmen that the world's largest car maker might have grown too fast. Now the European...

Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, has confirmed that there's a significant possibility that both Android and Chrome OS will merge over time partly because of the presence of both Linux and Webkit DNA in both projects.In an...

Acer has showcased what it claims is the first netbook which comes with both Google's mobile platform, Android, and Microsoft's very own Windows 7, which is scheduled to be launched on the 22nd of October. In reality though, the...

Some of us may be surprised that Google is actually using Chrome, the browser, as the foundation of its forthcoming operating system Chrome OS; after all, browsers, ever since they are built were applications that came on top of...

Google dropped a bombshell by announcing that it will be developing a Chrome Operating System which would first be pitted as an open source, lightweight operating system for Netbooks. The news was revealed yesterday night on...