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The back-and-forth between AT&T and Verizon over the quality of their wireless services ended up making its way into some high-profile primetime commercials. But it's not the only fight that Verizon has been waging with competitors. The company also took issue with advertising run by Time...

Elite Gamers Set Marathon Record by Playing Video Game for 50 Hours He just set a whole slew of world records for playing video games and knows just where he's going to put the official certificate from Guinness World Records. "I'll put it right next to my master's degree," Dino said...

World's Longest Handshake Record Within Grasp A good, firm handshake shouldn't last more than two or three seconds. Any longer and it starts to get a bit awkward. Unless, of course, you're trying to set a world record. Last night, four teams of two from around the world congregated...

DonanimHaber have revealed early Link Removed indications for AMD's much anticipated next-gen Bulldozer architecture, in the form of Zambezi CPUs. The benchmarks were sourced from an official AMD document, in three categories, Media, Rendering and Games, and the Bulldozer 8-core sampled ended up...

A longstanding player in the tablet market for the past nine years, Motion Computing has seen Apple blow past it with the iPad. So can it make it up now, and how will Steve Ballmer's coming announcements affect it? Motion Computing was one of the first companies to really try to make tablets...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

IDG News Service - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Tablet devices are big news at the moment and so as not to be undone by the competition the laptop manufacturing giant Lenovo is the latest company to announce a new LePad tablet (on show at this year’s CES). However, this one seems a little different, the most notable difference being that it...

Poor old Microsoft, damned of they do and damned if they don’t. With US or EU competition regulators ever ready to pounce on them if they add a new feature that somebody claims is anti-competitive. The Sticky Notes feature in Windows 7 offers only minimal functionality, and there’s a far better...

Microsoft, Nokia may find common ground in battle against Apple and Android in mobile market. More...

Microsoft has had an embarrassing fall, fending off accusations by competitors and critics that it has been talking big but still hasn't delivered on CEO Steve Ballmer's boast last summer that gaining a solid foothold in the evolving market for slate computers is Microsoft's "job one." Link Removed

Windows has been around for as long as we could remember. It's installed in 90% of computers in the world leaving only 9% for mac osx and 1% for linux. I personally think Microsoft came up with great business ideas, such as making deals with every single computer company in the world to have...

News Analysis: Acer's new crops of Microsoft Windows7 and Google Android tablets will add more competition to this red-hot market. Link Removed

Microsoft last night posted a video (below) taking a mild jab at Apple for the lack of Blu-ray on Macs. The roughly minute-long spot personifies a MacBook and a Windows 7 notebook on a flight and has the Windows system play a Blu-ray copy of Avatar that the both of them enjoy. The Mac isn't...

Microsoft last night posted a video taking a jab at Apple... More...

Steam, The world's biggest digital distribution platform for games is under attack as MCV reports, they understand that key retailers will drop titles that integrate the popular Steam service as fears mount that the service has a ‘monopoly’ on the download market. Insiders say Steam, run by...

Following the failed experiment known as the KIN, Microsoft shells out Windows Phone 7 - the real successor to Windows Mobile. And while it is not up to par with the iOS, Android, Blackberry or Symbian platforms in terms of marketplace apps, it is definitely a worthy competitor for the top spot...