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Microsoft Axes Last Vestiges of Nokia Purchase
After swallowing Nokia’s smartphone business in 2014, it seems like Redmond doesn’t actually want it. After shelling out a cool $7 billion for the Finnish firm, Microsoft turned tail last year and admitted it was a mistake. An expensive mistake it turned out as they took a $7.6 billion…
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Nokia May Cut up to 14% of Workforce
After a slew of bad years, Nokia still hasn’t found their footing yet. Once one of the dominant handset and wireless hardware firms, the Finnish firm has struggled in the changing landscape. 2 years after dumping their Lumia and handset business on Microsoft, the company looks to be cutting more…
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Microsoft Has 3 Surface Phones for 2017 But Nothing Till Then
Even as Microsoft continues to work on their Windows 10 Mobile OS, the hardware side has been lagging behind. After acquiring Nokia’s handset business for a massive sum 2 years ago, Microsft really hasn’t done much with it. In fact, according to the latest rumours, it looks like the first…
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Windows Phone Is Now ‘On Hold’
Microsoft has been keen on promoting their “one platform for all premise”. This meant that no matter what device you were using, be it your computer, a tablet or a phone, you would experience the same system. The concept of Windows Phone has recently been put in doubt, with major…
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Windows 10 Mobile Will Not Come to All Lumia Phones as Promised
With news that Windows 10 Mobile will be coming to the Lumia line of phones, people were eagerly awaiting the update after what could only be considered a lackluster of support and empty promises for windows 8 mobile. Sadly not everyone will be able to enjoy this as it has…
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Windows 10 Mobile Update Might Finally Arrive This Month
Whether Windows 8 mobile users have waited patiently for the update to Windows 10 or not is something the upgrade numbers will show, but up until now they haven’t had any other choice than wait. At least, if they wanted to keep their current Lumia phones powered by the older operating…
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Windows 10 Mobile Lumia Update Delayed to Early 2016
Microsoft has struggled to compete in the highly competitive mobile sector and encourage large app developers to create Windows Mobile versions. For example, approximately seven months ago, Snapchat’s support team promised the creation of a Windows Mobile app on Twitter. However, the tweet in question has been deleted, and this…
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Microsoft Will Unveil New Hardware on October 6th
Microsoft’s latest hardware event will commence on October 6th and there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding the possible announcements. Invites have already been sent out to members of the press, but little is known about what will be revealed. We might see a glimpse of the Surface…
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Is Microsoft Preparing to Kill Windows Phone?
Rumour has it that Microsoft could be set to write off the majority of its Nokia acquisition this week. In 2013, Microsoft purchased Nokia’s smartphone division, taking over development of the Windows Phone-running Lumia handsets. The deal seems to have been in peril of some time, with Microsoft warning investors…
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Windows 10 Mobile Phones Will Received Updates Exclusively from Microsoft
Well, this is new. We all know how frustrating it is to wait for carriers to get the latest phone updates and then roll them out in each country. This leads to some people getting the update sooner than others and some may not even get the updates at all.…
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Microsoft’s High-End Lumia Windows 10 Phone in the Works
Windows Phone fans, Rejoice! It has been reported that Microsoft is working to bring two new High-end Lumia Windows Phone devices. These will be running on Tech Giant’s new OS called ‘Windows 10’ with ‘Continuum’ feature baked in. The more premium Lumia device is codenamed ‘Cityman’. It is supposed to be…
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Next Windows 10 for Phones Technical Preview Coming to More Handsets
Microsoft has stated in a blog post that its Windows 10 for phones Technical Preview released last month was available for “very limited” devices. The decision was made due to the partition size, having the company select just a few devices that matched its requirements. The upcoming Technical Preview for…
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Microsoft Accidentally Leaks New Lumia Phones
Joining a trend of companies leaking their own products this week, Microsoft has just accidentally leaked two new Lumia phones due to be revealed at Mobile World Congress. Fortunately for Microsoft, they only leaked the names of the new devices in a blank post on their News Center website. The post,…
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Ikea Planning to Sell Wireless Charging Lamps and Tables
We live in an era where our smartphone and/or tablet battery is one of our top priority for the day. Often we forget to plug them into a charger while at home or at the office, only to notice we can barely unlock them to see a notification once we…
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