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A fresh video of Nokia’s upcoming Sea Ray, powered by Microsoft’s Windows 7, has started doing the rounds on YouTube.

With the growing momentum in the smartphone market, Nokia is pushed to slash the price of its handset by 10 percent in Q4 of 2011 to boost its sales globally.

The deal brings to an end the litigation between recording companies and Baidu over piracy charges

Microsoft Corp is set to post a 9 percent jump in fiscal fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, putting the cap on its best financial year ever, but investors are fidgety over flagging computer sales and a gnawing feeling that the tech pioneer will never recapture old growth rates.

Analysts say losing to Apple could cost HTC financially.

Amazon's new Kindle Textbook Rental program will save students up to 80 percent off the retail price of new textbooks.

The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled on July 15, that HTC had infringed on two of the four patents involved in its lawsuit with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).

In a cutthroat competition, the success of one player could turn out to be a failure for another. And right now, Microsoft may be thanking Google's Android.

The patent battle Apple has engaged with Android OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturer) can have extremely grave consequences including ban on the disputed Android products, which could mean anything between a complete wipe-out to decreased US market share, to the Google's mega-hit mobile OS.

The online video ranking is rising month after month in the U.S., with YouTube surging ahead as the top online video content provider in June, according to ComScore.

Hotmail has introduced new measures that prevent users from choosing weak or flimsy passwords while signing up for an account or changing the password on an existing one.

ITC says HTC infringed on two Apple patents in the latest ruling. HTC plans on appealing.

Microsoft is trying to arrive at the social networking arena.

On Friday, technology blogs picked up on a possible Microsoft social media application called Tulalip. The app said on its front page With Tulalip you can find what you need and share what you know easier than ever, before Microsoft developers quickly took it down.

Office 365 is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, says Microsoft COO.

Microsoft might be working on a social project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently. Currently a message which reads, Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest, is on the display as the unintentionally published page has been taken down.

The tablet war is on, as Amazon plans to release a tablet in October. Apple's iPad is the tablet leader by far, but Google's forthcoming Android operating system and Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will threaten to take marketshare, according to a new report.

A report says Google's forthcoming Android and Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 operating systems will take marketshare away from Apple and its iPad in the tablet space. But Apple is gaining marketshare with smartphones and personal computers, which could help the company fend off Google's Android and Microsoft 8.

Netflix has hit the Nintendo 3DS eShop with a free app that will eventually allow users to watch 3D movies without specialized glasses. The announcement comes amid a period of bad press for the movie service as it increased its prices by separating the previously combined cost of movie streaming and DVD rental.

Windows XP is one of the most popular operating systems on the planet.

The Windows Phone 7 powered smartphones without a contract, usually, cost around $300-400 and a few cost around $200.