It was reported recently that though Android remains free, Google may charge a licensing fee to use some of its more popular services like the Google...
Short of a drastic merger of Windows Phone with Windows RT, Microsoft may be exploring a new strategy that would have the company give away copies...
When Android is nearly a billion-dollar a year business for Microsoft this year alone, the company may not be as invested in the success of its...
Though Microsoft builds its own Windows Phone platform to compete in the mobile OS space, rival Google’s free-to-use Android operating system could become a very lucrative...
Speculated to have responded to negative comments and public policy, Microsoft has once again amended its Office 2013 license terms to make owning Office 2013 more...
Research in Motion’s new CEO Thorsten Heins may be moving the company more in the direction of Google than Apple as Heins says that his company...
With Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung Mobile in full swing in the U.S., the issue of patents, intellectual property, and licensing and royalties have gained traction in...
Google had filed a complaint with the European Commission accusing smartphone rivals Nokia and its partner Microsoft of colluding over patents and intellectual property, which in...
In Nokia’s most recent financial quarter, the company announced a$1.7 billion loss attributed to rapidly declining sales of devices using its Symbian cash cow operating system...
Under new CEO Tim Cook, it appears that Apple is softening Steve Jobs’ declaration of thermonuclear war against Google’s rival Android operating system. The company is...
One expert believes that Apple could stand to profit $10 for every Android device sold if the company ended its legal war over Google and the...
Microsoft makes almost as much money licensing patents to HTC, Samsung and other companies as it does selling Windows Phone 7 devices. Yes, you read that right, Microsoft...
HP dropped an absolute bombshell on the tech world today. It’s killing the HP TouchPad, its webOS tablet, and it will not be releasing any further...
CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft re-affirms his company’s commitment to the Windows Phone platform during a keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles, California....
With HP hoping to license out its webOS mobile platform for other hardware-makers to use on their branded smartphones and tablets, one company that may be...
While Android, unlike Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft, is a free operating system for manufacturers to use, customize, and implement on devices such...