Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 7 at the 2010 Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain on Monday. The new Windows Mobile 7 has several new features — including Zune and Xbox Live integration, a dedicated Bing search button, and a new “Hubs” concept for organizing and using mobile content and services.
Microsoft will be calling the phones [...]
We’ve been hearing more and more about multi-touch tablets and netbooks over the past few days, and the topic is still growing. Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer is expected to reveal a tablet of their own tonight (Wednesday) during his CES 2010 keynote. Considering the fact that Apple may reveal their tablet later this month, Microsoft [...]
The Los Angeles City Council voted today to begin using email service from Google, making it the largest city in the nation to do so. This is a big thumbs up for Google as they try to become a software provider to the world’s cities and businesses. Council members eventually voted 12-0 to approve the [...]
As promised in February, Microsoft is finally beginning to prepare their first retail stores. Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO, said during Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference that his company plans to open some retail stores “right next door to Apple Stores” this fall.
So, most of you have heard about Microsoft’s Bing by now. If not, you won’t regret checking it out. Anyway, Google may have a good competition on their hands. Bing is definitely going up in traffic, but Google might still be okay… for now, that is.
Zunes across the world are unfreezing today as they recover from a leap-year glitch that rendered an estimated 1 million of the digital media players inoperable.
After mass outages were reported, Microsoft explained Wednesday that 30-gigabyte models of its Zune digital media player had malfunctioned as a result of “a bug in the internal clock driver [...]
Microsoft Windows 7 may be due to come out a far year and a half from now, but the brouhaha that manifests the curiosity and excitement among concerned sectors – or just about anyone – is all around, this early.
Here we go again! Microsoft announced that they will try to reach an agreement with Yahoo! Inc., but they admit that nothing could result from these discussions. Thos guys from Microsoft said that now they will try a different approach which involves “a transaction with Yahoo! but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo!”. Microsoft [...]
Google, Microsoft and other renowned companies united their forces trying to obtain permission to use the “white space”, an unused portion of the airwaves spectrum. Federal Communication Commission (FCC), the agency who is in charge with regulation of al non-Federal Government use of the radio spectrum, has already received a six page letter, containing the [...]
French designer Jean Hong created a device that combines an alarm clock with a browsing PC. It is an interesting concept, as many of us surf the net first thing in the morning, with a cup of coffee beside. The alarm clock can be removed when browsing the web, and reattached at night, after setting [...]
Microsoft and Intel are the biggest companies from the software and, respectively, from the hardware market, but that didn`t stop them to come together with a $20 million grant for two universities. With these funds, Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers from UC -Berkeley and The University of Illinois at Champaign, Urbana will have to research [...]
Not many were very satisfied with what Windows Vista offered. There was just about the time to release an update and Microsoft has officially made available the Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The SP1 Five Language Standalone is available for download on Microsoft’s website and we will let you get it, test it and criticize [...]
It was about time that Microsoft confirms another operating system as the successor of Vista and they announced that Windows 7 will be released at the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010. The Redmond company made it official that the development of the Windows 7 would take about three years time, but until [...]
Microsoft has unveiled a prototype device called LucidTouch. The transparent multi-touch allows users to control the LucidTouch from behind and they will still be able to see their fingers. Microsoft has developed this device thanks to a technology called pseudo-transparency and the idea was to give users the possibility to control a device without blocking [...]
Microsoft announced that the Singularity OS will be available in stores as of 2011. For now they made available the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) 1.1 for academic non-commercial use. This operating system has been developed with the purpose of providing new systems, languages and tools. The whole idea is to create a better software [...]
