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A new photo has leaked of the Nokia Lumia 'EOS', showing this time a white model. This leak gets added to the growing pile surrounding the unreleased phone, which will likely sport a 41 MP camera. Read more...
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Sources are reporting that Microsoft is currently testing a new Surface RT with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset inside, as the company continues to offload current stock of the Windows RT tablet Read more...
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Developer FourBros Studios has posted up an update for its Windows Phone game Taptitude, showing the game continues to gain an audience with over 1 million downloads so far in two years. Read more...
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A Guatemala insurance firm has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming the company tried to extort money from the firm as part of a raid of its offices in 2012. Microsoft has denied the charges. Read more...
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Microsoft claims to have freed "at least 2 million PCs" from the criminal Citadel botnet that it went after earlier in June, although the people behind the botnet are still at large. Read more...
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Microsoft Research's Socl network has added some new features for its users, including a quick way to create animated images and quick meme photos with the new Picotales feature. Read more...
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Microsoft has launched a revamp of its MSDN message boards, offering forum users a number of new features, such as adding previews of message threads, improvements to search and more. Read more...
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Microsoft has announced that it has reached the 0.9 milestone release of TypeScript and have added a bunch of features and tooling capabilities to the platform as they march on towards 1.0 Read more...
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The chairman of Huawei's consumer business says the company is considering an acquisition of Nokia, hinting that Windows Phone might be dropped in favour of Android, if Nokia is willing to negotiate. Read more...
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Huawei has announced its Ascend P6, "the world's slimmest smartphone" at just 6.18mm-thick. The handset features Android 4.2.2, a 1.5GHz quad-core CPU and an "industry-leading" 5MP front camera. Read more...
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One year after Microsoft surprised the world with the announcement of Surface, we look back on the launch, and reflect on how the tablets have done since then, and what's still to come. Read more...
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Microsoft's Phil Spencer, who is the head of Microsoft Game Studios, has stated that the Xbox One is 3x as powerful as the Xbox 360 but then later corrected that statement on Twitter. Read more...
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Microsoft Open Technologies has announced it is adding support for its Pointer Events web standard to Mozilla's Firefox web browser, after previously adding support to Google's Chrome browser. Read more...
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Microsoft's advertising division is showing off some new concepts for upcoming in-app ads that will be used for Windows 8, including client such as Dell, Mercedes-Benz USA and more. Read more...
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Microsoft has announced some more statistics concerning the adoption of its Windows Azure cloud services, including word that over 50 percent of the Fortune 500 companies now uses Windows Azure. Read more...
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Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 game console outsold all of the other consoles in the US in May 2013, with 114,000 units, making this the 29th straight month on top of the US game market. Read more...
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With voice searches becoming a staple after the release of Siri, The Bing Speech Team and Microsoft Research have developed an improved system to more accurately and quickly return search results. Read more...
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Two of the many executives to have recently left HTC have launched Kazam, a new smartphone brand promising a range of devices with "stunning design, robust hardware and outstanding customer service." Read more...
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Starting today, and until August 31 2013, Microsoft will be making its Surface RT 32GB tablet available to students for just $199, through their schools and universities. Read more...
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After seven years and billions of tweets, the key word behind Twitter's main success, 'tweet' has been included as a valid definition for the English language by the Oxford English Dictionary itself. Read more...
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Apple's iOS 7 announcement showed us what the OS will look like on the iPhone, but not the iPad. But developers have taken images from the iPad iOS 7 emulator, giving a hint of what's to come. Read more...
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Microsoft has announced that Outlook.com and Hotmail will soon stop supporting linked accounts which means you may need to make changes to how you check your email each morning. Read more...
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Skype's video messaging feature has exited preview and is now available for free in the Skype Windows client, Mac client, Windows 8 app, iOS app (both iPhone and iPad), Android app and BlackBerry app. Read more...
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Analyst firm DFC Intelligence has released a new report stating the future of Microsoft's Xbox division is in question following the company's recent DRM requirement announcement for the Xbox One. Read more...
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If you have been wondering when GDR2 was going to land for Windows Phone users, it looks like July might be the release window that will bring several new features to the Windows Phone platform. Read more...
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