The most popular handheld devices among adults today are either mobile phones with PDA-like productivity features or PDAs with phone-like communications features. Then there are the plain-vanilla PDAs ...

Microsoft is to release its first server-based tool for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. It has also hinted at a new version of the mobile operating system for release early next year.

The reviews of Microsoft’s new mobile OS, Windows Mobile 6.5, are in — and none of them are glowing. It seems that Windows Mobile 6.5 is more of a superficial cosmetic overhaul, not a bona fide ...

After years of playing runner-up in the cell phone market, Microsoft hopes it has finally found a winning entry. The software maker will announce Tuesday that it has wrapped up development of Windows ...

Improved search, security and integration with Windows Live are in the update to the cell phone OS, set for a spring release. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, ...

Most people don’t think twice about the operating system that’s going to power their new PC — their minds have already been wired for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Similarly, most people don’t think ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp.’s new Mobile Device Manager faces a shortcoming because it is exclusive to Windows Mobile devices, but that might change, an executive said today. Scott Horn, general ...

Microsoft seems to have dropped out of the smartphone race, but it still has a chance to get reenergized and even pull ahead of the pack This past weekend in Orlando, Fla., I ran the Disney World Half ...

Microsoft has finally unveiled the Windows Phone 7 platform–including a diverse selection of ten different Windows Phone 7 smartphones right out of the gate. Despite Microsoft’s struggles getting into ...

The iPhone has leapfrogged Windows Mobile to jump into the number two position for smartphone platforms in the United States. That news could be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back for ...