Microsoft has just announced that it will be offering a generous 80% revenue share to developers who make apps for the upcoming Windows store. The windows store will go hand in hand with the new Windows 8, due to have a beta release in February 2012. This goes to show the kind of direction Microsoft wants to go with it's new operating system for tablets and perhaps even phones. It's also an obvious move to ...

The main thing holding me back from owning any kind of tablet PC has always been a lack of a workable keyboard. As it is right now, the iPad (or any other mobile touch-screen device) is essentially just a really big smartphone - minus the phone part of course. Why would I want to lug something like that around when I have an iPhone that does pretty much the same stuff, with more or less the same lack of a t ...

Following in the footsteps of Apple's success with the iTunes app store, the new Windows 8 will reportedly have a very similar app-based marketplace. Microsoft is expected to reveal its Windows 8 app store plans this week, detailing how it will challenge Apple’s thriving third-party download ecosystem with its new breed of notebooks, desktops and tablets. The unveil will come at an event on Tuesday, Fox New ...

The latest Carrier IQ shenanigans are turning out to be much more of a mess than was previously thought. The key-logging software that has been embedded into millions of phones (now estimated at 141,297,565) is pretty much capable of knowing everything that goes on in your smartphone. If you happen to have private or sensitive data on your phone, it has all been available to Carrier IQ and also whomever the ...