Paul Thurrott's WinInfo News
By Paul Thurrott, 02/08/2012
This week, details of two Motorola Mobility patent-oriented legal attacks against Apple and Microsoft, respectively, and both in Germany, were revealed. The goal? To obtain a ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/07/2012
An on-staff attorney with the ITC believes that ebook reader maker Barnes & Noble should win a patent-infringement lawsuit brought against it by Microsoft.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/06/2012
Market researchers from Canalys announced that overall sales of smartphone handsets exceeded those of PCs in calendar year 2011.
By Paul Thurrott, 02/03/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a Windows Phone 8 leak, preordering a Nokia Lumia 900, Microsoft marketing layoffs, Facebook's IPO numbers, an uproar ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/02/2012
ARM CEO Warren East said that ARM-based tablets and other devices based on Windows 8 were superior both to Android tablets and to Windows 8 devices that will run on Intel-type ...
By Paul Thurrott, 02/01/2012
Microsoft this week unveiled an initiative to attract Google users who are concerned about the online giant's growing data-collection policies.
By Paul Thurrott, 01/30/2012
Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! announced their support of a new email-security initiative called DMARC that they say will lessen the impact of so-called "phishing" attacks.
By Paul Thurrott, 01/30/2012
Three months ago, Amazon didn't even sell a tablet computer, but today the firm controls a stunning 40 percent of the market for Android-based tablets, according to one market ...
By Paul Thurrott, 01/27/2012
An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Microsoft's $250 million payment to Nokia, Microsoft's supposed plans for Xbox LIVE on iOS and Android, Apple's ...
By Paul Thurrott, 01/26/2012
Nokia announced its financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2011. And while the press will focus largely on the company's continued attempts to turn things around, ...