Microsofts week centered on its decision to end its MIX conference, as well as some new sales data on Windows Phone. We have decided to merge MIX, our spring web conference for developers and designers, into our next major developer conference, which we will host sometime in the coming year, Tim OBrien, Microsofts general manager for Developer &am... read entire news →

Follow @NYTMetro Connect with us on Twitter for breaking news and headlines in New York. And at a pace that may shock any reader of a long-winded Victorian detective novel, it was all wrapped up within a half-hour. The case involved the robbery of a similar iPhone from a handbag store. On Friday, the arresting officer, Robert Garland, shared det... read entire news →

Apple overtook Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2011 to grab the top spot among global smartphone makers, earning 23.9 percent of the market with sales of 37 million iPhones, according to one set of estimates. Shortly after rival Samsung officially reported its quarterly results on Thursday, market research firm Strategy Analytics released a repo... read entire news →

(Credit: Apple) Apple gained a slight edge over Android in the U.S. smartphone market last quarter, courtesy of the 37 million iPhones sold. Eyeing the U.S. smartphone market for the December quarter, research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech pegged Apple's share at 44.9 percent, double the percentage from a year ago. That narrowly beat Android's ma... read entire news →

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Nokia sold more than 1 million Windows Phone units in the fourth quarter of 2011, surpassing some analyst expectations. That being said, the companys quarterly results suggest it has a lot of ground to recover if it ultimately wants to challenge Google Android and Apple. Nokias net sales declined 21 percent from the year-ago quarter. Operating pro... read entire news →

ESPOO, FINLAND, Jan 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Nokia Corporation Stock Exchange Release January 26, 2012 at 13.30 (CET +1) Nokia announced today that Nokia's Board of Directors has approved the Nokia Equity Program 2012 consisting of Performance Shares, dependent on the achievement of two independent financial performance criteria;... read entire news →

(Updates shares in second paragraph.) Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. rose the most in three years after quarterly profit more than doubled as surging demand for the iPhone and iPad cemented its role as the most valuable technology company. Apple gained 6.9 percent to a record $449.19 at 9:33 a.m. in New York after reporting the results yeste... read entire news →