Microsoft & ARM Partnership Means End Of Wintel?

ARM has announced this morning that Microsoft has become the latest technological company to license its ARM architecture, a significant step which could have some deep consequences in the tech ecosystem. Both companies have been...

The CEO of Cambridge-based chip designer ARM has declared yesterday that it will be aiming to be the dominant player in the netbook market, a segment which Warren East reckons may make up to 90 percent of the computer market over...

Microsoft Corp confirmed on Friday that it has made some massive structural changes to the organisation’s Entertainment and Devices (E&D) unit, the division of the software maker responsible for Windows Mobile, Zune,...

During a Thursday financial analysts' conference at CES 2010, whose transcript has recently been released by Microsoft (DOCX available here), Microsoft Entertainment & Devices division president Robbie Bach painted a...

International Business Machines, the US based information technology giant, has announced that its financial services arm, IBM Global Financing, has signed a deal with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to provide factoring services to...

Confirming the rumors of a brand new tablet PC, Microsoft and HP have unveiled an pint-sized tablet PC at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, during CEO Steve Ballmer's opening key note speech.  The device, which...

Microsoft Corp., the California based software giant, has reportedly filed patents for a new technology that will allow users to control a computer device by merely flexing their muscles and could potentially find its way in its...

Microsoft got a shot in the arm this morning as the NASDAQ opened and shares in the company rose almost 10% in pre-market trading.  The reason for the rise is two fold, Microsoft have announced better than expected results,...

During our interview with Eric Schorn, VP Marketing for ARM's processor division, prior to the official release of the Cortex A9 MPCore, it was clear that the target of the nimble company was the lucrative multi-billion x86...

Netbooks now represent a rather mature market whose borders are now blurred. The main argument that made netbooks so popular in the beginning - price - very often no longer holds. A popular UK-based company is selling a 15.4-inch...

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...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unleashed a new innovative online service that enables consumers to track their household energy usage and offers handy ways to bring their energy consumption down. The new service, codenamed as...

Microsoft has confirmed that it won't be releasing a Windows For Smartbooks version despite the fact that the software company already have it ready for launch in the form of Windows Mobile or Windows CE, paving the way for an...

Windows 7 could mark the point at which Microsoft main consumer desktop operating system adopts other non x86 processors, a break that could end a 20-year tacit agreement between two of the biggest forces in the industry. EETimes...

HP, the world's biggest PC manufacturer, could be considering plans to build Netbooks based on Google's Android and using ARM platform. The Wall Street Journal reports that Satjiv Chahil, a vice president at HP's PC...