According to the IDC (International Data Corporation), smartphones’ penetration is above 50% in developed countries. It’s below 25% in many developing countries. The IDC stated that the sale of ...

Microsoft Corp said it would roll out its Lumia 535 smartphone this month with an affordable price tag as it eyes low-cost markets for growth, dropping the Nokia name just months after buying the ...

Steve Ballmer hasn’t been the CEO of Microsoft for a while now but he can’t seem to keep his mouth shut about how the company is being run. Bloomberg reports that Ballmer got feisty with Microsoft’s ...

TORONTO • For anyone who is married to a CrackBerry addict or has dated someone who refuses to stop texting during dinner, it should come as no surprise that in the age of mobile proliferation, the ...

Rumors of Microsoft making its own smartphone have swirled for more than a year and have been further fueled by Microsoft continuing to invest and update its Windows Mobile operating system, which is ...

The media is filled with rumors that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has tested its own smartphone. The move has many disadvantages, but Microsoft should ignore those. There are many advantages if ...

The US company said it would shed up to 1,850 jobs, most of them in Finland, and write down $950 million from the business. It did not say how many employees currently work on smartphones in the group ...

In-house development delays are putting a stealth Microsoft-Verizon smartphone project in danger of collapse, Channelweb.com has learned. Microsoft and Verizon Wireless have reportedly been working on ...

Ever since I first set my eyes upon the Windows 8 Metro Start screen in June last year, I have wondered about Microsoft's precarious balancing act between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Initially, ...

Microsoft’s fight to stay in the smartphone game will begin on Oct. 6 when the first so-called “Windows phones” will be made available at retail stores worldwide. The new phones will run Windows ...

Microsoft Corp announced more big cuts to its smartphone business on Wednesday, just two years after it bought handset maker Nokia in an ill-fated attempt to take on market leaders Apple and Samsung.

Microsoft smartphone partners are expected to deliver about 30 new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices by the end of 2009, including models from HTC and To HTC Imagio shiba shown for the first time at a ...