Microsoft Mobile Devices Sales rumored to disappear, Nokia feature phones license sold off

Cellphones have been difficult for Microsoft to not only get into, but to maintain its presence in. The acquisition and subsequent disposal of Nokia’s mobile hardware division was characterized as sad, mismanaged, misguided and inevitable, depending on who you talked to. Still, taking a $7.6 billion hit on the balance sheet and 7,800 cubicles had to be addressing a weakness somehow.It may prove to have been ...

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Canon, IGT license battery charging patents to BlackBerry

BlackBerry might be thinking beyond the charging cable when it comes to plugging in your future smartphone.It has just announced two patent licensing deals with London-based International Game Technology and camera manufacturer Canon.IGT is specifically focused on the gambling and pay-to-play video gaming industries. Global Chief Product Officer Victor Duarte released a statement in BlackBerry’s press ...

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Microsoft strikes app-loading deal with Acer, 74th of its kind

The Office pool has grown just a bit larger.ASUS signed with Microsoft to include the latter’s suite of productivity apps. After a few bouts of fighting, so has Samsung. Acer thought it was time to do the same as it will begin pre-loading

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ASUS smartphones will get Microsoft Office pre-loaded thanks to license agreement

Microsoft’s latest hardware is just days away from setting out into the public, but a little bread and butter action comes first. After all, Microsoft has the word “soft” in its name. Its ubiquitous Office software has gotten around better than

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Microsoft dropping licensing fees is not a bad thing

Spoiler alert. If you haven’t watched The Walking Dead yet, go do so and come back. We’ll wait. Recently, Microsoft reportedly struck deals with a couple of future Windows Phone friends in which Microsoft dropped their licensing fees for their operating system to the low, low price of…free. This wasn’t really a surprise as rumors about it doing so went back several months. But it did raise questions. How can ...

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