In an article about Microsoft's smart phone hopes and dreams, some interesting numbers are revealed: Around 118 million smartphones were sold last year, according to market researcher Canalys. Symbian captured 67 percent of the OS market. Microsoft...

Just got an email about some free, high-quality designer templates that Microsoft is now offering to users of Office 2007: In conjunction with the launch of Office 2007, Microsoft today went live with designer templates that utilize many of the new Office...

Can we finally put the "no variable pricing on iTunes" baloney to the side. It's never really been true and it's pretty clear that Apple will actually bend over backwards for content providers if the company feels it's important...

Not that many people would notice, but Microsoft's Live Search got a nice makeover recently. Here's the front page: Nice. The search results page(s) have similarly been streamlined. For good or bad, Microsoft has done away with the Windows Live...

Wired Blog shows their true colors : Microsoft's Zune picked up a percentage point in the MP3 player market, bringing its share to a whopping four percent, with two million units sold. Microsoft has said from the start that it will stick with the...

Looks like Google will finally launch its long-awaited social networking play tonight. How does it announce such a thing? By announcing ... that it will soon make an announcement: Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex , Google will announce a preview...

Readers of this site and listeners of the Windows Weekly podcast know that I advocate the use of User Account Control (UAC), Microsoft's unfairly maligned security technology. UAC does a lot more than just prompt you when you're about to make...

If you're looking for a TweakUI replacement for Windows Vista, there are several contenders, but the one that's closest in spirit and functionality is, I believe, WinBubble , a freeware application by Lawrence Albert. You can find out more about...

Well, all I can say is, I hope the movie version of this over-rated game offers better plot devices than conveniently-located personal recorders all over the place. I've said it before and I'll say it again: There are many, many examples of games...

Business Week takes on Microsoft's future and comes to the same conclusion I have. It's all about cloud computing: Before yanking the Yahoo offer, [Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer] had begun laying the groundwork for a strategy to compete with Google...

With the understanding that "a new generation Xbox 360 with new chips" is the holy grail of Xbox 360 gaming, and has been for at least a year or so, here's the latest rumors along those lines, this time from X-bit Labs (emphasis mine): Microsoft...

Contrary to a blog posting on The New York Times Web site, Microsoft is not seeking to implement technology that will erase or block copied copyrighted content in the Zune. CNET's Ina Fried reports : The New York Times blog cites Microsoft spokesman...

Take that , Halo 3: "Grand Theft Auto IV" raked in more than $500 million in its first week in stores, selling more than 6 million units worldwide, the video game's publisher said Wednesday. The highly anticipated title from Take-Two Interactive...

No big surprise, but I'm behind in my Xbox 360 game reviews. So it makes sense to start with the game that's been sucking up my free time in huge quantities lately. And I'm not talking about Call of Duty 4 ( see my review ) or Grand Theft...

I pretty use MyPublisher for my own photo books now, but Blurb just introduced a new book type that looks interesting. According to an email I received from the company, "ImageWrap is a new hardcover book option that lets you print text and images...