As we make preparations for New Year celebrations, the alarmingly futuristic-sounding 2011 is waiting just around the corner. But before we take our first tentative steps into the new year, it's time to take a look at the biggest stories from the last...

One of the largest computer multinationals ever, Microsoft is known all over the world, thanks in large part to the huge success of its Windows operating system that greets millions of PC users every morning. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul...

The Microsoft Kin, the ill-fated mobile phone, which launched earlier in the year cost the Redmond based company $240 million Microsoft has confirmed in its latest earnings report.

"[The] cost of revenue increased $240 million or 2%, primarily...

There's a reason Microsoft shut down the Microsoft Kin handset project so shortly after its launch in the US, it sold less than 10,000 phones.

Although word is circulating that the number was only 503 Kin handsets in total, Pocketnow.com has...

Microsoft has pulled the plug on its range of "social" handsets the Microsoft Kin One and Microsoft Kin Two.

"Microsoft has made the decision to focus on the Windows Phone 7 launch and will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally,...

A leaked photo showing that the newly announced Microsoft Kin One and Microsoft Kin Two will be available from 13 May has turned up online.

The screen grabs, supposedly taken from an internal Verizon computer system, shows the two phones will...

Microsoft might be heading for a bit of a media storm, after it unveiled an advert for its recently-announced Kin handsets that depicts a young chap taking a photo of his naked body and sending it to a lady-friend.

The video's embedded above....

Everyone likes a chat but some people are just hopelessly glued to social networks. You know who you are. Don't worry. There's no shame here.

So, for those for whom an phone just won't do unless you can update a whole palate of status changes...

Microsoft has announced two new phones in the US and the UK dubbed Kin on Monday. 

Kin, short for Kin-ship, won't run Windows Phone 7 it seems, but a variation of it.

"What if we took Windows Phone 7 and customised it for a social networking...