Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some good things to say at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 on Tuesday, but it seems like as with everything these days, what stood out was the negative and that has been his admission that the company’s Windows Phone platform continue to lag behind its rivals in the mobile industry.
From a transcript of Ballmer’s keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference held in Los Angeles, California, Ballmer had slammed Mac sales and boasted of strong …

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A small suvey done by Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster while he was attending Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week is currently a hot topic in the tech world as of late.
His small survey wherein which he interviewed 45 iOS developers reveals that 47 percent of those iOS developers are also developing on Android while only 7 percent are developing on Mac.
For obvious reasons, the iOS developers Munster talked to who were attending the Apple event said they preferred the …

After the recent release of the iOS to Windows Phone API mapping tool, Microsoft has also released a similar tool this time for Android developers to make it easier to port applications developed for the Android platform to the Windows Phone platform.
Jean-Christophe Cimetiere, Microsoft senior technical evangelist and interoperability executive, announced in a blog post on Thursday a package from Microsoft that include the Android to Windows Phone API mapping tool and a 90-page white paper, …

Microsoft has revealed that it if given a chance, it prefers applications on the Windows Phone platform which cost more, various reports detail.
In a press event in Helsinki, Finland, Microsoft’s Brandon Watson said that Microsoft supports higher price for apps because the company thinks it would be better for developers.
“If we can support a higher price point that’s good for developers,” he said, according to Bloomberg and various other media outlets.
Before saying that, the …

Nokia has just forsaken its “Ovi” branding and has instead opted to use “Nokia Services” as it rebrands what was previously included in the previous brand’s suite of software.
Nokia has previously launched services like Ovi Store (a store for applications and more) and Ovi Maps under the Ovi brand.
The Finnish phone company, which is facing a decline particularly in the smartphone market which it once dominated, has recently signed a strategic partnership to make Microsoft-developed …

If you’re an iPhone app developer, Microsoft wants you. The software giant will soon be releasing a tool which will help developers more easily migrate their apps to Windows Phone.
The software called iPhone-Windows Phone API Mapping Tool is designed to make building apps on Windows Phone easier especially for developers who have apps for the iPhone.
The application program interface (API) helps developers by charting which iOS APIs an iPhone app calls on. The tool then looks at the Windows …

Is the mobile OS Symbian retiring soon after serving its fans for so many years, when at the same time the Finnish company Nokia promises to sell at least 150 million smartphones on this platform during the next few years.
Over the past six months, rumors have been circulating with the information about its future updates, which the company didn’t seem in any hurry to announce.
As it can well be guessed from the invitations sent out to journalists, Nokia is arranging a presentation for …

Recent changes made by Nokia’s Board of Directors to CEO Stephen Elop’s compensation package reveal that the ex-Microsoft exec has a lot riding on the success of Nokia making the Microsoft-developed Windows Phone operating system its primary smartphone platform.
According to records of a recent Nokia Board of Directors meeting, if Nokia performs well through 2012, Elop will be awarded shares which would then be worth almost $13 million Euros.
If the plan sabotages Nokia’s performance, …

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When Nokia will be entering the tablet market, it does not intend to go with its recently-announced mobile partner Microsoft, a report from Reuters says.
Citing a person with knowledge of Nokia’s plans, the report says that Nokia is “still considering its options for tablets”.
The report says that the Finnish phone giant is considering MeeGo to become its tablet platform. MeeGo is developed under a collaboration of Nokia and microprocessor behemoth Intel.
In …