Nokia told Pocket-lint at a one-on-one briefing during the Mobile World Congress that “a tablet would be good for the company”, but there are no plans to make one as of this time.

IDC — through a study commissioned by Microsoft — forecasts that spending on cloud computing will generate roughly 14 million new jobs by 2015, as well as bring in $1.1 trillion per year in revenue.

Nokia has just confirmed that PureView — the technology behind the 41MP camera on the PureView 808 — is headed to Windows Phone devices.

Beating Nokia, LG, and ZTE to the punch, HTC has just began accepting pre-orders for the Triumph, which is essentially a re-branded Titan for the Chinese market.

Thanks to a partnership with Zain Group, Windows Phones are set to be available in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and South Sudan later this year.

The guys at Windows 8 Beta have discovered a registry file within the Consumer Preview that contains a reference to a “Professional Plus” SKU of Windows 8.

Microsoft has just announced the Xbox 360 Special Edition 4GB Kinect Family Bundle today, which will be available for $299.

The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has hit the 1 million download milestone only 24 hours from its initial release.

Microsoft have released three slick Metro apps for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview — Finance, Weather, and Maps — that are each powered by Bing for download in the Windows Store.

Microsoft has released the fifth Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview within the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

HBO has announced that, come April 1st, they will be releasing their popular HBO GO service on the Xbox 360.

Microsoft has just released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview — which packs over 100,000 changes since the Developer Preview in September — for download.

So, while you wait for that Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO to download (you are downloading it, right?), here’s a brief and to-the-point rundown of the cool, more major improvements in the CP build.

With about an hour left to go until the official release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview build, the wallpapers included in it have already been leaked.

Microsoft and Nokia have recently created to roll out a uniform map design on Bing Maps and Nokia Maps. Bringing various improvements to the table, this is one of possibly many collaborations in the future that we can expect to see from the two companies.