According to a report released this morning by Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, Microsoft sees $5 for every HTC phone sold running Android thanks to a patent settlement between the two companies over the infringement of intellectual property. Microsoft is currently looking into filing lawsuits against other Android manufacturers to push the current $5 per phone more »

Bing has officially teamed up with Facebook in a move which will give the social networking site deeply rooted integration into the search engine’s results and algorithms. Here’s what Microsoft had to say about the recent team up: “The best decisions are not just fueled by facts, they require the opinions and emotions of your more »

With over 10 million units sold since its launch last November, Microsoft’s Kinect is now the fastest selling device in recorded history according to Guinness World Records. The Kinect’s sales have even topped the likes of Apple’s iPad and iPhone making it one heck of an accessory (considering the fact that each unit sold is more »

Upon hearing news of the Microsoft/Nokia partnership, roughly a thousand disgruntled employees at the Nokia facility in Tampere walked out of work in protest. Seeing as how this will be the first time that Nokia is manufacturing cell phones for a third party OS, current employees are bound to lose jobs left and right. Nokia more »

Microsoft showed off their new and improved version of the Surface. Manufactured by Samsung, the new Surface will be only 4″ thick with some heavy-duty gorilla glass for added screen protection. The device is no longer a giant box that can only be used as a table. Surface 2.0 can be mounted vertically to impersonate more »

Steve Ballmer took to the stage during the CES keynote and amongst some other items, he did take some time to talk Windows Phone 7. And it seems there is a little bit of good news and bad news for those waiting with Verizon and/or Sprint. First, the good, the Windows Phone 7 devices will more »

Just in case you missed out on the Windows Phone 7 related news that came yesterday, or if you enjoyed the day so much you wanted to try and relive part of it — Microsoft has posted the video of the keynote. You can watch above or click the link below to watch directly from more »

Just a few days ago, HTC announced it had no intentions of joining the tablet market with an Android device. Today, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, announced at the Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft’s plans to launch several slates running Windows 7 “over the course of the next several months.” Among the list of vendors, Microsoft included more »

Another week down, another round of suspicious narcotic usage in the tech world. This week saw everything from seemingly bad choices to moves that will generation zero chances of parole. Let’s get to it: iPad stealing sales from everything AT&T turns on WiFi in Times Square Google Pac-Man rocks the world Steve Ballmer isn’t doing more »

Crazy rumors as of late, one of which was calling for Steve Ballmer to speak at WWDC 2010, which for those unfamiliar — is an Apple event. In short, Microsoft took to Twitter and broke the good/bad news.. “Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding more »