Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) all made mobile announcements today, releasing technology that helps to make it easier for consumers to access content on their…

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Nokia announced today that it will be supporting Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in that will help deliver video and other multimedia content to its smartphones. Silverlight will be available for its…

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Visto, the mobile e-mail provider, has ended a two-year patent dispute with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) today. Specific terms of the agreement are confidential, but the settlement includes a license agreement…

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Rafat wrote last night Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) mobile SVP Pieter Knook is leaving the company after 17 years. At MWC in Barcelona this morning, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) just announced Knook…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which just bought Danger for a reported $500 million, is overhauling its mobile group in more ways than one: besides replacing mobile head, it is promoting than…

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When Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced that it was buying Danger, the maker of the pop-culture cellphone icon, the sparse press release failed to mention anything about how much it might…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), in the middle of a bid to acquire Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), has announced that it will acquire Danger Inc., the company behind the Sidekick mobile device. The…

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Hours before Mobile World Congress officially kicks off, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced a new premium brand of phones today, saying that it will run Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT)…

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As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) waits for a response from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to its $44.6 billion buyout offer, the analysis on the two companies continues to flow freely. For a…

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Microsoft’s $44.6 billion dollar proposed bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues to grab headlines, and more writers and analysts have pondered the implications for the mobile market. The deal wasn’t,…

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Some of our breaking-news coverage from sister sites paidContent.org and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Google: MSFT Bid Raises ‘Troubling Questions’; Openness Mantra Again; MSFT Responds: We’d Be No 2 -- MSFT-YHOO:…

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With news this morning that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has offered $44.6 billion for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), here are some of the early implications it could have for mobile. Consumer: Yahoo…

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What could a tie-up of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) achieve in the mobile space? In the release and letter to Yahoo’s board, Microsoft identified mobile as a…

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This time the rumors were true: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has made a $44.6 billion, $31 per share bid for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The offer represents a massive 62 percent premium…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes the man behind the Staples Inc. “easy” concept—and the physical Easy Button sold as a fundraiser—will give its mobile communications business a boost. Todd Peters joined…

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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, which made its fortune selling Windows Mobile devices, has announced that it has sold 2 million Touch handsets, the touch-screen iPhone-resembling Windows Mobile-running device developed to…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will buy Norwegian web and mobile enterprise search software firm Fast Search & Transfer in a deal that values the company at 6.6 billion kroner ($1.23 billion),…

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-- PSP Mobile: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment announced today that it had partnered up with Skype to turn the PlayStation Portable (PSP) into a device that could make and…

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During Bill Gates’ keynote Sunday at CES, he brought Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Entertainment and Devices division to the stage, to speak about Windows Mobile phones, among…

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Five senators urged the FCC to approve the unlicensed use of the so-called “white spaces” spectrum that exists in between frequencies used for television broadcasts. In a letter to FCC…

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Version 7 of Windows Mobile, the next major release of the platform, will get a full-featured version of Internet Explorer 6 in an attempt to compete with the Safari browser…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has rebranded its PlayForSure DRM technology to Certified for Windows Vista, a confusing move that seems more intended to promote upgrades to Vista than to promote the…

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Thumbplay has signed another high-profile distribution deal, hooking up to put content on MSN Mobile—which made an announcement today about the content, tickets and advertising. At CTIA a couple of…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has begun serving ads on its US MSN Mobile page, moving into the mobile advertising business in the USA—it already sells mobile ads in Belgium, France, Spain,…

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The Chinese mobile content market is picking up—China Mobile Board Chairman and CEO Wang Jianzhou said the mobile and internet are"destined to integrate”, and apparently China Mobile gets 25 percent…

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