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RIM is going through some tough times. the company’s products though popular aren’t getting positive reviews. BlackBerry is being clobbered by Apple and Android; to make matters worse, Microsoft’s Windows Phone is being considered as the third mobile ecosystem. Speculations and suggestions of RIM being bought keep surfacing frequently. With a brave face RIM introduced [...]

Once upon a time Xbox Live Gold account users had their annual subscription automatically renewed by Microsoft, but the newly-revamped Xbox.com lets your membership die a natural death. It’s a welcome change, as the auto-renewal always struck us as egregiously money-grubbing. Forcing a user to phone a customer services rep to stop the annual fee [...]

Samsung grabbed the No. 1 worldwide smartphone position from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), selling over 23 million units in the third quarter for the first time ever, fueled by the phone maker’s new Galaxy S II line and handsets powered by its own bada platform. The company, which commanded 20 percent market share for Q3, sold over [...]

PHOTO For those looking for a new smartphone running Mango, the most recent version of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 OS, there aren’t many handsets to choose from right now. However, two flagship devices for the operating system are now available, with the launch of the Nokia Lumia 800 (shown right) at Nokia World in October [...]

The HTC Titan, a Windows Phone handset with a massive 4.7-inch screen, will be arriving on AT&T November 20. like most other Windows Phone phones, the Titan’s processor is fast, but only has a single core, and its other specs trail behind similarly priced contemporary devices. A 1.5GHz Scorpion processor, 512MB of RAM, and a [...]

A sign of things to come, but with AT&T? (Credit:Nicole Lee/CNET) With the 2012CES set to begin just two months from today, it’s a perfect time to start speculation on what we might see in Las Vegas. Today’s rumor concerns Nokia andWindows Phone 7, two technology brands that up until last month were playing a [...]

The brand new Windows Phone 7.5 powered Nokia Lumia has already been made available by T-Mobile, Orange, O2 and Vodafone with contract deals in the UK and now the first of the virtual network operators has also launched the Nokia Lumia 800 across their entire range of pay monthly deals. Talk Mobile are a virtual [...]

Nokia is in big trouble because two very powerful and beautiful Android smartphones are scheduled to arrive this year. Motorola Droid Razr (left) and Samsung Google Galaxy Nexus (right) are Android's new babies that will surely kill Nokia. Apparently, Nokia has decided to use Windows Phone and not Android because of the “so-called” fragmentation due [...]

IDG News Service – Microsoft on Monday held an event in New York to mark the U.S. launch of smartphonesrunning its latest Windows Phone 7.5 OS, and said it is taking steps to “align” the smartphone OS with its future tablet and PC OSes. The company wants to bring similar user experiences across Microsoft-based phones, [...]

Nokia has revealed the smartphones that it hopes will lead to the company’s resurrection as the world’s leading mobile vendor. last February, under the leadership of a new CEO who hailed from Microsoft, Nokia gave up its losing strategy of creating its own mobile operating system to compete with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android and [...]