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  • Apr. 25, 2013
    Article

    COPE: A Better BYOD? 1

    The news is growing daily that the BYOD movement may be a flop, and companies are looking for an alternative. One such alternative is actually a throwback to what made sense in the first place....More
  • Apr. 18, 2013
    Article

    A Jump in Lumia Sales Is the Sole Good News in Nokia Earnings 14

    Struggling smartphone maker Nokia delivered preliminary first-quarter earnings on Thursday, reporting sharply improved sales of its Lumia lineup of Windows Phone handsets. But other bad news dampened any excitement about Lumia sales as the firm continues to fall short of its own promises....More
  • Apr. 16, 2013
    Article

    Sprint’s Future Up in the Air as Second Suitor Emerges 5

    The US market for cellular service has been poised for change since AT&T’s aborted merger with T-Mobile in late 2011. This week, the latest attempt to remake this market emerged with two companies, Softbank and Dish Networks, now seeking to take over Sprint, the smallest of the four biggest players....More
  • Apr. 10, 2013
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    Scroogled: Microsoft Takes Google to Task for Privacy Violations 11

    Microsoft this week launched a third round of attacks on Google via its “Scroogled” campaign. This time, Microsoft claims that Google shares personal information when a user downloads apps its Play store. Once again, Microsoft is right about Google and raises important issues about this company. But once again the reaction from tech quarters is overwhelmingly negative....More
  • Apr. 9, 2013
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    Microsoft, Nokia Accuse Google of Antitrust Violations in European Union 5

    An industry consortium that includes Microsoft and Nokia in its member base has formally complained about Google’s Android mobile OS to antitrust regulators in the European Union. The goal? To curb Android’s unfair dominance of the mobile industry....More
  • Apr. 8, 2013
    Article

    No Evidence Microsoft Is Merging Windows with Phone 12

    A report from Digitimes claims that Microsoft is merging the next versions of Windows 8 and Windows Phone into a single product line. But one might argue that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are essentially part of the same product family already, with their shared cores and other technologies. Is something deeper in the works at Microsoft?...More
  • Apr. 4, 2013
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    Short Takes: April 5, 2013 16

    An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a 1981 photo recreation with Paul Allen and Bill Gates, the Facebook phone that’s more software than hardware, Windows RT price cuts trigger questions, Android dominance will continue and even grow but Windows will always beat iOS, Office for iPad is on the way with even better licensing, Microsoft updates Visual Studio 2012 again, Samsung preps mini-stores to deliver its Apple coup-de-grace, Kindel heads to Amazon, and Apple’s next campus is way over budget....More
  • Apr. 4, 2013
    Article

    Reflecting on 3 Years of iPad 12

    Three years ago this week, Apple invented a new market for tablet computing devices when it unleashed its first iPad on US consumers. Since then, this market has turned into a major business for Apple and, more recently, other companies as well, and I thought this might be a good time to reflect on how the firm has, once again, changed everything....More
  • Mar. 29, 2013
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    Short Takes: March 29, 2013 4

    An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including non-news about smaller Windows tablets and real news about a smaller Surface, Microsoft’s plans to make Office a lot more agnostic in 2013, Microsoft’s Surface connector patents might stave off iPad ripoffs, Microsoft publishes a list of 41,000 patents, nerds attack each other and take down TV night on Netflix, and Amazon kills off—sorry, “buys”—a book reviewing service....More
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