10 posts and columns on Pink

Viral Video: The Mini-Warbler Steals the Movie

in Media on August 15, 2011 at 12:30 am PT

The best part of the not-so-successful “Glee: The 3D Concert Movie” is this mini-Warbler, who sings his little heart out.
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Microsoft to Uncrate “Pink” Phones at April 12 Event

in News on April 5, 2010 at 12:01 pm PT

Apple isn’t the only company holding a special invitation-only event this month–Microsoft is as well. Four days after Apple unveils the details of its forthcoming iPhone OS 4, Microsoft will take the wraps off its long-rumored “Pink” phones at a San Francisco media gathering with the cryptic title, “It’s Time to Share.”
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Microsoft and Verizon: Pretty in Pink

in News on March 4, 2010 at 12:02 pm PT

Looks like Microsoft’s long-rumored “Pink” phone project is about to make the jump from speculation to reality. Gizmodo’s managed to get its hands on some marketing materials that appear to confirm Pink’s existence and finger Verizon as a launch partner.
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Microsoft to Launch Zune Phone in Two Months?

in News on January 19, 2010 at 8:28 am PT

Microsoft has long claimed that its mobile strategy is to provide a software solution, not devices. So it’s intriguing to learn that talk of the company’s long-rumored “Pink” phone project has started up again. In a note to clients today, Jefferies & Company analyst Katherine Egbert claims that Redmond is gearing up to launch a “a Zune-like phone” based on Windows Mobile 7 in the next two months.
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Stink the Pink

in News on April 28, 2009 at 1:53 pm PT

As if the Zune weren’t embarrassing enough… Microsoft and Verizon are reportedly discussing a touchscreen multimedia cellphone that could launch on the carrier’s network in 2010. The project is codenamed “Pink” and will apparently involve some ungodly combination of Windows Mobile and Zune software.
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Verizon, Microsoft Working on Smart Phune?

in News on April 28, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

Verizon Wireless is reportedly working with Microsoft to develop a new smart-phone. Plus, layoffs at Nokia and Microsoft’s “societal network.”

Verizon, Microsoft Working on Smart Phune?

in News on April 28, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

Verizon Wireless is reportedly working with Microsoft to develop a new smart-phone. Plus, layoffs at Nokia and Microsoft’s “societal network.”

Pink PCs and Baseball Boys: These Microsoft Ads Are Growing on Me (But I Am Still a Mac!)

in News on April 10, 2009 at 2:27 am PT

OK, the Lauren ad was a little too cute for its own good, and BoomTown has no interest in Giampaulo’s “really big hands.” But the latest installment of Microsoft’s real-people advertising campaign, called “Laptop Hunters”–this time a mother and son named Lisa and Jackson looking to score a computer–is pretty funny and sweet, and the main theme of hefty value over too-thin hipness is really starting to kick in. And while I cannot blame Microsoft for sticking to the Apple-Is-for-Value-Ignorant-Elites meme, I still wish that the messaging would move on from price to more important things such as how the software and hardware perform together.
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Is Microsoft About to Launch Its Own Mobile Phone? (Updated)

in News on November 25, 2008 at 2:31 pm PT

Everyone else is in the phone business, so why not Microsoft? Several reports suggest that this may actually be in the works–one has the phone sporting an Nvidia processor and launching at the 3GSM conference, another that it is code-named “Pink,” will be Zune-based and will launch at CES in January. No word on what the code name may allude to.

Could Microsoft Lower Its Bid?

in News on February 25, 2008 at 3:18 am PT

So, for the last week or so since Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s unsolicited bid of $31 a share as too low, all has been relatively quiet on the Western front. Sure, Yahoo continued its tango with News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch (lots of those dramatic cross-country flights to meet in secret, like they were rendezvousing at Hernando’s Hideaway, details of which somehow always get leaked to the press). In turn, while threatening a proxy fight, Microsoft trotted out its execs–including its iconic Chairman Bill Gates–to restate that its offer was “fair” and leaked its own internal memos, including emails from top brass to company minions. So, one wonders, what could get this party started?