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Microsoft’s business model for next generation Windows may be better suited to the mobile industry than Google’s strategy for Android, according to Glen Burchers, director of Freescale’s global consumer industrial segment marketing.

While Apple’s iPad might be fogging up everyone’s view, a smaller silicon valley firm by the name of Funambol has unveiled its own cloud-based digital locker by the name of …

RCR Unplugged has long reported the rumor that the iPad 3 will sport a 3D display, but our friends over at Netbook News seem to be one step closer to furnishing proof, offering an eye opening video from a recent Taiwan tech show

Nokia Corp., once king of the handset world, has been going through a tumultuous period as of late. Stephen Elop, who took over the CEO position last year after his predecessor Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was unceremoniously booted out for failing to maintain the Finnish manufacturer’s competitive edge, has made some aggressive changes.

ComScore Inc. (SCOR), a company specializing in business analytics, released a study that claims that the number of mobile display advertisements have more than doubled in the past two years. …

Nokia Corp., who all-but invented the mobile phone market back in the halcyon days of the early-90s, look set to be dropping not one but two places down to a distant third in terms of smartphone manufacturing volume by the end of this year, if a new report from research firm Nomura is to be believed.

Apple’s launch strategy for new products is an interesting phenomenon. While the details are always jealously guarded so Jobs’ “one more thing” can have the maximum impact on stage, this does leave the Cupertino-based gadget giant open for other legal ramifications down the road. Case in point – the iCloud trademark, which Jobs and Co. have just been sued over.

ZDNet | June 9, 2011 | Press Release Hon Hai Precision Industry—a company best known for making Apple products like the iPad—outlined production improvements, data center plans and diversification efforts. …

Analyst firms are often accused of pulling figures from various places; the sky, their rear ends – basically anywhere but reality – and with the latest numbers from IDC its not difficult to see why.

After Steve Jobs gave his keynote speech at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, he left the romance of San Francisco behind him and went to a slightly smaller scale meeting – one of the Cupertino Council. At the meeting he presented Apple’s plans for their new headquaters – and to say they’re grandiose would be something of an understatement.

Apple’s historically profitable relationship with the four major record labels (Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal) paid dividends today as it became the first music vendor to allow would-be purchasers access to cloud-based copies of music they already own – even if it was not purchased through the companies iTunes music store.

The keynote at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company’s CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest additions to their desktop operating system OS X, and iOS, its mobile sibling.