Microsoft shows off Windows for smartphones

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Microsoft may have relinquished its starring role in America's gaudiest gadget show a year too early.

By James Kwak

By Scott Francis Winder:The technology market is a scramble with companies trying to join the swelling mobile revolution. The godfather of this market, Palm Inc., helped break the barriers between personal computing and mobile computing; where PALM left off, Research in Motion (RIMM) picked up and defined the connected mobile smartphone market, creating a multibillion dollar industry that the world did not know it needed.

Lately, Microsoft Research fellow, Blaise Aguera y Arcas has been studying the future of tech. One surprising prediction he makes: women will be a bigger market for tech than men within the next few years.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads that say as much about the dramatic shift in the technology industry's competitive landscape as they do about the animosity between the two rivals.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is set to launch cheaper handset models in an attempt to fend off growing competition from Chinese rivals in the low-end market, company s