Microsoft’s earnings call dominated its week, with news of strong Kinect sales. Microsoft also fought TiVo and a Salesforce.com hire. – Microsofts
week was all about the numbers, courtesy of its Jan. 27 quarterly earnings
call.
For the three
months ended Dec. 31, Microsoft chalked up $19.95 billion in revenue and $6.63
billion in net income. It sold some 8 million Kinect units in the hands-free
controllers first 60 days of rel…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked today in Serbia’s capital city of Belgrade. Minister of Labor and Social Policy Rasim Ljajić, representatives of the City of Belgrade and members of the diplomatic corps and the Association of Jewish Communities in Serbia laid wreaths at a monument to the victims of the Holocaust at the grounds of the former German Nazi concentration camp Staro SajmiÅ¡te, which the occupying army set up in Belgrade.
Microsoft made yet another foray into the cloud with its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and displayed some of its collaborative work with Hewlett-Packard, during this week. – Microsofts
week centered on the cloud, with the worldwide launch of the Microsoft Dynamics
CRM Online platform the companys hope for blunting similar competition from
Oracle and Salesforce.com.
A Jan. 17
statement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized the cloud platforms
“familiar user exp…
Microsofts week involved the announced departure of one high-ranking executive, and a brewing fight between the company and Apple over the term "app store." – Microsofts week saw one major executive departure and
several small battles with rivals in the cloud and smartphone space, both of
which could be harbingers of larger things to come.
On Jan. 10, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a companywide e-mail to the effect that Bob Muglia, president of
the…
Several thousand Belgraders gathered in the Serbian capital last night to welcome in the so-called Serb New Year. The Julian calendar New Year is also celebrated by the Serbian Orthodox Church, and the churches of Russia, the Jerusalem Patriarchate, and others.
Microsoft’s big week at CES included the announcement that the next version of Windows will run on ARM chips, and upcoming touch-screen laptops. – Microsoft always has a substantial presence at the Consumer Electronics Show
in Las Vegas, and 2011 was no
different.
The company’s biggest CES announcement came on Jan. 5, when it announced
that the next version of Windows will support SoC (system-on-a-chip)
architecture, in particular ARM-ba…
The central celebration of Christmas Eve in Kosovo and Metohija was held in the St. Demetrios Church in Kosovska Mitrovica, northern Kosovo. Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Božidar Äelić, who attended the celebration, pointed out that 2011 will be the year of Serbia’s strong efforts aimed at European integration and fight for Kosovo.
Microsoft’s week included a Windows Phone 7 crack, 5,000 mobile apps in the Phone Marketplace, and readying for January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. – The last week of 2010 was a quiet one for Microsoft, as the company along
with many other tech stalwarts geared up for January’s Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Rumors suggest that Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer will use his opening keynote at the show to reveal a line of Windows
tab…
Apple started 2010 with a bang, when it answered months of speculation with the unveiling of its 9.7-inch iPad near the end of January. Released in April, the iPad enjoyed a spectacular sales run and a spate of imitators, as rival manufacturers began introducing their own tablets into the market. Apple followed the iPad with the iPhone 4, the latest version of its popular smartphone, although the latters device release was marred by reported issues with the exposed antenna rim. And as the year came to a close, Apple reinforced its dedication to mobile devices with the MacBook Air, which emphasized the companys increased focus on lighter, slimmer, and lower-power devices. The iPad quickly seized 95.5 percent of the consumer tablet market, according to analyst reports, and the iPhone continues to dominate the smartphone space. But the company nonetheless finds itself locked in increased competition with Google, whose Android operating system has seen rapid adoption in both the smartphone and tablet spaces. In addition, Apple also faces vigorous competition in the mobility arena from Research In Motions BlackBerry franchise and Microsofts new Windows Phone 7. Whether Apple can maintain its market leads in the face of all that is the question for 2011. – …
Microsoft engaged in a number of legal battles throughout 2010, most of them seen by analysts as a way to leverage its growing interest in smartphones and the cloud. – Microsoft found itself at the center of a number of intellectual-property battles throughout 2010, as lawsuit fever seemed to grip the tech industry as a whole. Despite the intercompany partnerships seemingly signed on a weekly basis, the rapid pace of innovation in markets such as smartphones, and …
Microsofts week involved rumors of Windows tablets, some new Bing features, and yet another round in the never-ending competition against arch-rival Google. – For people who follow Microsoft, this week offered a distinct sense of déjÃ
vu, with rumors suggesting the company plans to reveal a new line of
Windows 7 tablets during the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Should that
come about, it would essentially be a repeat of January 2010, when Microsof…
Xbox Kinect has sold 2.5 million units, a bright spot in Microsoft’s week otherwise marked by looming conflict with Google over government cloud contracts. – High sales of the Xbox Kinect boded well for Microsofts holiday
retail season, but the company nonetheless faced difficulties this week
on a number of fronts.
Some 2.5 million Kinect hands-free controllers have sold in the
devices first 25 days of release, according to Microsoft. “We are on
pa…
Cyber Monday shoppers are increasingly turning to smartphones and social networking to finish their online holiday shopping, according to reports. – The online retail sector is showing robust growth during one of the year’s
most crucial shopping periods, according to new reports. That not only bodes
well for retailers’ bottom lines during the holiday season, but also suggests
the same tools that are changing the face of the Web including smar…
Microsoft’s Kinect will likely be a strong Black Friday best seller, once final numbers come in, while Acer announced a Windows 7 tablet for early 2011. – Microsofts Kinect hands-free games controller sold more than 1 million units in its first 10 days of release. At least a portion of those buyers were IT pros and other tech tinkerers, who snatched up the rectangular devices for a purpose other than virtual dance-offs and road-races: They wanted to e…
Albanian flags have been put up at Bujanovac and Preševo town halls as a part of celebration of the Albanian Flag Day.
At a small celebration Bujanovac Municipal President Shaip Kamberi together with his coalition partner Bujanovac Municipal Assembly Speaker Jonuz Musliu of the Democratic Progress Movement displayed the Albanian flag next to the Serbian one.
Microsoft’s week included strong early Kinect sales, the launch of its Lync 2010 unified communications platform and Office Apps with the revamped Facebook Messages. – Last week’s Windows Phone 7 launch drew attention to Microsoft’s consumer
side. But a company of Microsoft’s size necessarily has other areas of focus;
and this week, it was the business-product end of Redmond’s
operations that seemed to attract news attention.
Microsoft formally launched Lync …
Algerian Ambassador to Serbia Abdelkader Mesdoua hosted a reception in Belgrade on Monday evening marking the Algerian national holiday – the Revolution Day. The event was attended by numerous Serbian guests and foreign diplomats accredited in Serbia.
Serbia should be proud of its anti-Fascist past because it had the courage to take the right side during the 1930’s and 1940’s, Deputy PM Božidar Äelić said.
He pointed out that “Yugoslavia” sided with the Soviet Union and the United States, and together with them fought against “this plague of our civilizationâ€.
Microsoft’s week involved the launch of the Kinect hands-free controller for Xbox, an update on Windows Phone 7 sales and some clearing of the Silverlight controversy. – Microsoft’s week centered on its newest attempt to dominate the living room:
Kinect, the hands-free controller for the Xbox 360, hit store shelves Nov. 4,
and early reports indicate robust sales.
Based on that early retail movement, along with preorders and audience
awareness, Microsoft
raised …
Microsoft’s week involved strong earnings powered by strong Windows 7 and Office 2010 sales. News from its PDC Conference also dominated. – Microsoft had positive news this week, as it reported strong
results for its first fiscal quarter of 2011 and
solid sales of Windows 7. The companys revenues of $16.20 billion
represented a 25 percent rise over the same quarter last year, when businesses
and consumers kept their wallets firmly s…
