Tech Biz Roundup: Microsoft Looks At Smartphones, Vringo Shares Pop

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) could be seriously looking at the smartphone market, says Digitimes, along with several other sites. According to its sources, the search giant has recruited the contract manufacturer Pegatron to make Window Phone 8 devices that will be introduced in the first half of 2013.

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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) partisan Brian White says that boosting the iPad Mini output is playing out to be just as difficult as hurrying the iPhone 5′s production. White believes that yield problems have set the product some 4 to 6 weeks behind the original launch timetable, but predicts that December quarter sales of between 5 and 7 million units are still obtainable.

Vringo (AMEX:VRNG) shares are up about 25 percent in late trading, subsequent to Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) being denied its request for a summary judgment on Vringo’s patent suit against it. Shares of the latter are currently up around 72 percent over the last 2 days.

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