Microsoft’s previous shuffling of logistics center workers out of country to the Netherlands because of the ongoing patent lawsuit with Motorola got a little more concrete today. The court overseeing the patent battle has ruled in Motorola’s favor, saying that Microsoft infringes on Motorola’s IP, specifically one patent relating to the h.264 codec. While Motorola can’t begin enforcing the ruling yet due to their own anti-trust investigation(s), it...

Yay! Browser market share numbers. This rather unexciting topic is oddly enough one of our favorite topics. On that note, Zdnet has released a new chart (above) that shows browser market share over the last year. Specifically, Chrome is up 6% along with Safari’s ~2.25%. Meanwhile Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s IE browsers continue to bleed users with the latter now falling to 53.7% overall. While IE still holds over half of the world’s...

Web fiends and internet junkies might want to mark down March 14th (specifically 9pm PST) on their calendars — this is the day in which Microsoft will officially launch their most current Internet Explorer 9 after months of public beta testing. Should you the consumer really leave Firefox 4, Chrome 10, Opera 11, and/or Safari 5 browsers for IE9? After many weeks of IE9 testing in the GS labs, we’d say no. IE9 is great and all, but the latest versions of...

Love surfin’ the web on your new WP7 device but aren’t too keen on the new mobile version of IE? You’re in luck. A new WP7 browser by the name of “Browser+” was recently released. One special aspect of this 3rd party offering includes being able to see your tabs and search box in the same view, whereas the stock browser makes you hunt and peck a bit. Even more impressive however, is a “reader” feature similar to Apple’s...

I have to admit, as Windows Phone 7 launch draws nearer, I find myself getting more and more excited. Part of it is the love I have for new, shiny gadgets. The other part is eager to see how well Microsoft managed to make Windows Phone 7. So far, we’ve seen plenty of promising features and hands on accounts. But the little things that we encounter day in and day out also play a big part in the success and/or failure of a platform. So today, we’re looking at...