Nokia Ireland parties like it’s 1999. Or 2001.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

ENN's Ciara O'Brien writes: "Nokia is challenging Apple in the digital music market with a new online music store aimed at Irish customers. ... Tracks from the Nokia Music Store are compatible with any device that plays Windows Media Audio files (wma), which are embedded with Microsoft's digital rights management technology. However, iPods ...

Microsoft’s multi-pronged defeat strategy

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Alistair Croll writes about Microsoft for GigaOM. Microsoft is fighting a war — one in which it’s being attacked on three sides. ... what emerges is the Redmond giant’s three-pronged defense strategy: consumer, enterprise and developer. What emerges is that consumers who have previously been buying nothing but Windows don't care ...

Microsoft to start manufacturing phones?

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Zu-ne. verb. 1. To fuck over or generally bugger up partners who believed your shite for years and invested heavily in it. (From Zune, noun, a music player released by Microsoft which is incompatible with their previous music sales efforts under the PlaysForSure brand and immediately began to undermine their ...

Microsoft reviews the iPhone: “a lousy iPod”

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Is it a qualification or essential criteria to be an idiot if you work in the higher echelons of Microsoft? From the NYTimes, J. Allard, chief of Microsoft's competing Zune unit whines about the iPhone: It’s a lousy iPod. You can’t skip a track without looking at it. You can’t go running ...