Google blocks Windows Phones from accessing Google Maps site
Just hours after settling the FTC’s antitrust investigation of its business practices, Google has blocked all Windows Phones from accessing its Google Maps mobile site....
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Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion- but is it really patents they’re after?
Google just announced that it’s purchasing Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion— the search giant’s biggest acquisition to date. Motorola Mobility is Motorola’s consumer division, which...
Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion
Announcing the largest deal in its 36 year history, Microsoft said earlier today that it would acquire internet telephony firm Skype for $8.5 billion, all-cash. The Redmond software giant will integrate...
TA Maps 2 hits the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
TechAutos Maps v2.0, an updated version of one of the first jailbroken apps for Windows Phone 7, has now hit the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace....
Nokia CEO responds to Google VP’s “two turkeys” tweet, clarifies WP7 strategy
Two days before the Nokia-Microsoft alliance was announced, Google’s Vic Gundotra attacked the two companies by tweeting that “two turkeys do not make an Eagle.”...
Reports: Nokia may use Windows Phone 7; Microsoft India, Google execs hint at partnership
Observers have been wondering what Nokia’s next step will be following its CEO’s Burning Platform memo yesterday. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported...
Nokia CEO to employees: “We poured gasoline on our own burning platform”
Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop, formerly of Microsoft, just sent out a fairly devastating internal memo to all Nokia employees. It’s a brutally honest portrayal...
HTC HD2 triple-boots Windows Phone 7, Android, WinMo 6.5
Vying for the title of the most customizable smartphone ever made, HTC’s legendary HD2 can now triple-boot Windows Phone 7, Android, and Windows Mobile 6.5,...
Google removing H.264 video support from Chrome
Google just announced on its Chromium blog that it will be removing support for the H.264 video codec from the Chrome web browser, in favor...
TA Maps: Google Maps for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS ships with an integrated Bing Maps client, but Bing’s map data is lacking in many parts of the world....
