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Wed, 07/27/2011 - 15:04 by Dipankar Roy
The latest version of the Windows Phone operating system (OS), named Mango, has been released to handset manufacturers for testing, said Microsoft.
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Wed, 05/11/2011 - 13:39 by NeelamGoswami
In a landmark deal, Microsoft Corp. has acquired internet phone company Skype Technologies SA, reps for both the companies announced Tuesday. Placing its biggest bet yet, the Redmond software giant paid $8.5 billion in cash to buy VoIP provider Skype Global.
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Sat, 10/02/2010 - 21:17 by Samia Sehgal
Microsoft Corp. has sued Motorola Inc., alleging that the cell-phone maker’s Android smartphones infringe its patents.
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Fri, 07/02/2010 - 02:17 by Pankaj Damin
Redmond, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. Thursday unveiled InstaLoad battery technology that allows users to properly install a battery in either direction.
"Never again will people have to squint to see battery installation diagrams -- the device works regardless if the battery is installed positive-side-up or positive-side-down," the Redmond, Wash., technology giant said in a release.
The most popular off-the-shelf batteries -- AA, AAA, C, D, CR123 -- could be installed in either direction in InstaLoad equipped devices as simple as flashlights and battery chargers -- and as complex as digital cameras.
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Thu, 04/15/2010 - 10:30 by Rakhi
Dongguan City, China -- The typical workweek for teenagers at the KYE factory in China, a Microsoft Corp. supplier, is 90 to 105 hours, a National Labor Committee report said.
The plant recruits "hundreds -- even up to 1,000" workers defined as "work study students," as young as 16 years old, who typically work from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m. In the past, "dozens" of workers ages 14 and 15 were found working at the plant, the report released Tuesday said.
The report said overtime hours, even if calculated at 80.5 hours a week, exceed the legal limit in China by 388 percent.
After deductions for food, which workers described as "awful," the wage falls to 52 cents an hour.
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Fri, 04/02/2010 - 09:54 by Priyanka
Latest in Microsoft Corp.’s court woes, a U.S. federal court of appeals on Thursday has denied software maker’s request to review it’s ruling in the patent lawsuit filed by the Toronto-based software firm i4i.
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Thu, 01/07/2010 - 21:59 by Inderjit Singh
Las Vegas -- U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. said it had partnerships to build three different tablet-style digital readers, which failed to wow investors.
Microsoft shares fell in public trading Wednesday, as did shares of Hewlett-Packard, one of companies using Microsoft software to push into the market of digital readers -- thin, slate-like touchscreen devices used to download books, newspapers and magazines and display the content on a screen.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer unveiled a Hewlett-Packard tablet, "as portable as a phone and … as powerful as a PC running Windows 7," he said.
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Fri, 10/16/2009 - 14:30 by shalini.bahadur
Redmond, Wash., Oct. 15: U.S. technology giant Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it had recovered "most" of the lost consumer data from the Sidekick network system.
"We have determined that the outage was caused by a system failure "that created data loss in the core database and the back-up," Roz Ho, corporate vice president of Premium Mobile Experiences, wrote in a posting on the Sidekick Web site.
"We rebuilt the system component by component, recovering data along the way."
On Saturday, T-Mobile said the system had crashed and the data was likely gone for good, InformationWeek reported Thursday.
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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 03:24 by surajdogra
New York -- Microsoft Corp. unveiled its holiday lineup Tuesday in New York, a mix of new software for work and home, the company said.
Microsoft's head of entertainment and devices said the 2009 holiday season was a combination of software for "lifestyles" and "work-styles," PC World reported Tuesday.
Featured in the announcements were the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system for mobile phones, Windows 7, and updates to portable music device Zune and game platform Xbox, PC World said.
For hand held phones, Windows 6.5 offers new navigation tools and a new digital outlet for phone applications called Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
Microsoft said it will be adding features to allow content downloaded on the
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Wed, 08/12/2009 - 21:39 by Inderjit Singh
Tyler -- Software giant Microsoft Corp. was fined $290 million in a Texas court for infringing on a Canadian company's XML programming patent rights.
The conclusion of the seven-day trial in Tyler, Texas, saw Judge Leonard Davis rule in favor of i4i, an international software developer based in Toronto.
The ruling effectively bars Microsoft from marketing its popular Word 2003 or Word 2007 word processing software that's part of the Microsoft Office package.
The ruling "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML."
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Wed, 08/05/2009 - 23:18 by Salinder Kumar
Redmond, Wash. -- U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. intends to pay Yahoo! Inc. 88 percent of the revenue from searches on Yahoo! Web sites, a regulatory filing said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filing revealed details of the Microsoft and Yahoo! advertising partnership announced on July 29, CNNMoney.com reported Wednesday.
The agreement includes Microsoft hiring 400 Yahoo! employees and paying Yahoo! $150 million over three years. Microsoft, in turn, will be allowed access to Yahoo!'s search engine technology. Microsoft recently launched its own search engine called Bing.
The deal combines two heavyweights in the Internet advertising business and is subject to approval by antitrust regulators.
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Sat, 07/25/2009 - 19:51 by Inderjit Singh
Redmond -- U.S. computer giant Microsoft Corp. says it is preparing to issue a pair of emergency security patches for its Internet Explorer Web browser.
Microsoft officials, in a blog posting late Friday, said the patches -- which are being issued ahead of its regularly scheduled updates -- will come out on Tuesday morning, Computerworld reported.
The company didn't say what the patches were for, but the rushed nature of the IE fixes suggests it may be tied to a widely used Windows component called the Active Template Library, experts said.
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