Smith Micro Software, a company that normally stays behind the scenes of mobile service carriers, …

commentary Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system looks great. Too bad anyone who actually cared enough to buy a Windows Phone over the past two years will be left out in the cold. Microsoft today unveiled Windows Phone 8 and confirmed old phones wouldn’t be able to upgrade to the new version. Chalk it up to another brilliant move by …

Support for multi-core processors was one of the biggest pieces of news to come from Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 unveiling today. Qualcomm has just confirmed that it will supply its dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus chipset to power future Windows phones. The Snapdragon S4 is Qualcomm’s fastest chip to date and goes up to clock speeds of 1.7GHz per core. It …