Leaked video Of The New Nokia Windows Phones

The phone pics you see below are screen grabs from a video that is also at the end of this story. The video and photos are claiming to be promotional materials for new Nokia Windows Phone 7 smartphones that aren’t the Sea-Ray device we already know about. It’s impossible to say at this point if the video is real or a clever fake.

10 Reasons Why Microsoft Phone 7 Is Dead

News Analysis Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system is fighting a rapid sales decline since it was released last year. The mobile operating system looks dead in the market and it’s looking highly unlikely that Microsoft can do anything to breathe new life into the platform.

Google And Microsoft Fight In Twitter

In an escalation of Android patent battles, Microsoft said it urged Google's legal team to join Microsoft in buying up hundreds of Nortel patents, but Google refused.
"Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no," Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft, tweeted Wednesday night.
Smith's tweet followed by several hours a blog from Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, who described Microsoft as one of a group of companies that are mounting a "hostile,organized campaign against Android."

Microsoft to pay 250k for new security defenses

Microsoft is offering more than $250,000 to researchers who develop new security defenses to protect Windows users against attacks that exploit software bugs.
Microsoft's Blue Hat Prize announced on Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference will pay $200,000 for the best “novel runtime mitigation technology designed to prevent the exploitation of memory safety vulnerabilities.” The two runners up will receive $50,000 and a MSDN Universal subscription valued at $10,000, respectively.

How Bing Plans to Beat Google

Bing is a big money-loser for Microsoft, shedding billions of dollars per year, but the company is far from giving up on beating Google in the search engine wars.
In a New York Times feature published over the weekend, Microsoft laid out its long-term plans for Bing and hints at new features to come. (The article follows an earlier Times opinion piece suggesting that Microsoft should abandon Bing entirely.)
Here's an overview of how Bing plans to take on Google in the years ahead:

Smartphones 28 % of global market this year

More than 420 million smartphones will be sold worldwide this year, and will account for 28 percent of all cellphone sales, IMS Research says.

Among the reasons for the growth, IMS says: More affordable smartphones coming on the market. By 2016, the firm expects global smartphone sales will reach 1 billion devices, largely because of more affordable, entry-level handsets.

Apple's iPhone, while not entry-level — although such a version has been bandied about — did account for 19 percent of global smartphone sales in the first quarter of this year, compared to 16 percent in the first quarter of 2010, IMS said.
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First Windows "Mango" Phone Unveiled

The first smartphone based on the new "Mango" edition of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform was unveiled on Wednesday in Tokyo.

The phone is the first of several handsets due over the next few months, that Microsoft hopes will signal its return to the smartphone market as a serious player. (Video of the new phone and its launch is available on YouTube.)
If that wish sounds familiar, it is. This time last year the company was hoping the first version of the Windows Phone 7 would accomplish the same thing. But that didn't happen

Microsoft gives manufacturers a taste of Mango

Microsoft announced this morning that the next version of the Windows Phone operating system, code-named Mango, has been delivered to manufacturers who can begin testing it on their handsets.
The move is one of the final steps before the software arrives on new phones and is delivered to existing users as a software update.
"This marks the point in the development process where we hand code to our handset and mobile-operator partners to optimize Mango for their specific phone and network configurations," Terry Myerson, Microsoft's corporate vice president of engineering for Windows phone, wrote on a company blog. "Here on the Windows Phone team, we now turn to preparing for the update process."

Microsoft apologizes to Amy Winehouse Fans

Amy Winehouse is dead.
That means everyone who has music of hers to sell will try to do everything to sell that music.

However, so often in this world, how you sell something really does matter. So when the person behind Microsoft's U.K. PR Twitter account, Tweetbox360, decided to send out a tweet Sunday, only potential purchasers could decide whether it was in perfect taste.
The tweet read: "Remember Amy Winehouse by downloading the ground-breaking 'Back to Black' over at Zune:social.zune.net/album/Amy-Wine..."
Yes, it was hard to get it all into 140 characters. But the intention seemed clear: Amy Winehouse is dead. You can get her music here.