Top-secret Microsoft prototype stolen in Barcelona
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com 2/19/2009 — Windows Mobile Here’s the risk you take holding the cellphone industry’s annual gathering in Barcelona, a city famous for its world class pickpockets. Only hours after Microsoft ( MSFT ) announced the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 — the software ...

Can Apple Top Microsoft as Most Valuable Tech Firm?
cnbc.com 22 days ago — 's phoenix-like rise from the ashes has propelled its market value to $180 billion, raising the possibility that it could challenge Microsoft for the technology crown. Microsoft [ MSFT Loading... ( ) ] is now the world's most valuable tech company ...

Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft's Windows Phone
appleinsider.com 10/9/2009 — Earlier this week, an anonymous tipster leaked the news that Microsoft's top secret Pink project, aimed to take on the iPhone just as the Zune targeted the iPod, was "near death and probably will be canceled." Another source has now spilled even more ...

Microsoft Must Make More Apps For The iPhone
businessinsider.com 9/30/2009 — Apple's iPhone has quickly become the world's most important mobile software platform. It's time for Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, to take it more seriously. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Microsoft's Mobile ...

Microsoft's First Store Opening "Imminent"
modmyi.com 10/17/2009 — Image via Gearlive.com Microsoft 's first store is ready to open and it could as early as Monday according to multiple published reports. Phoenix will play host to the first store as the software maker ups the ante in its competitive posturing with Apple. As Reuters reported this ...

Total Cost of Ownership: Motorola Droid versus iPhone 3GS versus Palm Pre
chimac.net 10/29/2009 — Nice comparison between the devices. Click here to see more. Tagged: Droid, iPhone, Palm Pre

Microsoft sells restrictive new WiMo Marketplace via iPhone ads
appleinsider.com 9/16/2009 — With the release of Windows Mobile 6.5 and its new Marketplace app store fast approaching, Microsoft has resorted to buying ads within iPhone apps to attract the attention of developers. Even so, the company's new store plans to be even more ...

Topsecret Microsoft prototype phone stolen
telegraph.co.uk 2/19/2009 — Microsoft was in panic on Wednesday after a prototype phone loaded with topsecret software created to rival Apple's iPhone was stolen prompting fears of industrial espionage.

Hi. I’m a PC … and I Was Made on a Mac
digitaldaily.allthingsd.com 9/21/2008 — The irony is enough to make your head explode. The latest evolution of Microsoft’s new ad campaign — the one designed to seize back control of the Windows PC image that Apple’s so mercilessly tarred and feathered — wasn’t ...

Microsoft Store Mimics, and Enhances, the Apple Store Experience
db.tidbits.com 10/23/2009 — On 22 October 2009, Microsoft opened their very first consumer retail store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. Although Microsoft has long had a fabled company store at the Redmond, Washington campus, the Microsoft Store is their first attempt at engaging directly ...

Verizon's big ad push for Google's Android targets Apple's iPhone — Apple 10/19/2009
NEW YORK — An aggressive TV ad campaign from Verizon Wireless is adding to the support building for a software package from Google that is shaping up to be the most formidable challenge yet to Apple's iPhone.

Apple earnings: Notebook, iPhone sales drive better-than-expected profit — Apple 10/20/2009
Companies across the globe are still suffering the aftereffects of the Great Recession. Don't count Apple among them. The iconic company on Monday posted record computer and iPhone sales and its second highest quarterly revenue tally on record. Those ...

Apple introduces new iMacs, 'Magic Mouse,' revised MacBook — Apple 10/20/2009
Apple Inc. updated its iMac desktop computer line Tuesday and introduced a mouse that responds to the touch of fingers instead of using buttons or scroll wheels.

Record iPhone, Mac sales propel Apple stock this morning — Apple 10/20/2009
Apple stock surged to a nearly two-year high this morning after the Cupertino company reported record sales of iPhones and Mac computers.

'Breakthrough' on online music rights in Europe for iTunes, other services — Apple 10/21/2009
BRUSSELS — The EU's top antitrust official on Wednesday described a deal among Apple's iTunes, music companies, distributors and online licensing groups as a "great breakthrough" that would roll out more Internet music sales across Europe.