Nokia are readying two AT&T Windows Phone 8 devices — codenamed the ‘AC/DC’ and ‘Prodigy’ — for launch later this year.

Due to the lack of Verizon LTE support, it would appear that the carrier scrapped plans to offer a Nokia Windows Phone — called the ‘Om’ — which would have hit the shelves sometime in January or February.

Microsoft are working to fix incompatibility issues with the Windows Phone SDK on Windows 8.

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.

What are the gestures supported in Windows 8 and how to perform the same task using a mouse.