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Although ZTE Tania was delayed for February 20, it looks like at least one UK-based retailer has the phone in stock. The under £200 (315 USD or 240 EUR) Mango-based smartphone can be purchased in the UK starting today.
Customers who want to try out this budget-friendly Windows Phone device can head over to Unl... |
14 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed that the official online store from India has been breached, the issue being currently investigated by the company.
“Microsoft is investigating the limited compromise of the company’s online store in India. Customers have been notified and provided with guidance to reset their passwor... |
14 February 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Regional Canadian carrier SaskTel has just unveiled pricing options of the upcoming HTC Radar 4G Mango-based smartphone. The phone is on “Coming Soon” since the beginning of the month, but it will soon hit shelves.Customers who wish to purchase this affordable Windows Phone device can do so for as low as ... |
13 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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The developers at CD Projekt RED have boasted that the upcoming Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has the most complex story that has ever been launched on the Microsoft home console.
The team is emphasizing the choice and consequences system in the action role-playing game, saying that the Xbox ... |
13 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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The Chinese Evil Shadow hacker collective managed to breach the official Indian Microsoft Store (microsoftstore.co.in), defacing it and leaking data from their databases.
On the team’s blog the hackers reveal their intentions for targeting a Microsoft website.
First of all, they say that they did it for the... |
13 February 2012
04:25 GMT |
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January 2012 was a very bad game for video games, according to the NPD Group, with the value of the industry declining by a whopping 34 percent when compared to the same period of last year, but major hardware makers Sony and Microsoft have released upbeat statements related to the results. A statement from Microsof... |
13 February 2012
02:31 GMT |
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A new report about the successor of the Xbox 360, the oft-rumored Xbox 720, has appeared, this time saying that the new console will have a controller with a built-in touchscreen, similar to the Nintendo Wii U's tablet controller or Sony's PlayStation Vita.
The Xbox 360 is here to stay, according to Micros... |
11 February 2012
10:41 GMT |
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MSN is now available for iPad users in the United States, delivering hot topics that specifically pique the interest of US residents.
Microsoft made it official today, saying “MSN is now available on your iPad – easily swipe to find your favorite news, sports entertainment, autos and money articles & vid... |
10 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Despite delivering fewer hits during the last few years former employees still believe that the Rare development studio still has the ability to deliver video games that are at least as good as those launched during its Nintendo years.
Ed Fries, a former leader of the Microsoft Game Studios, has told Eurogamer as pa... |
9 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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With both Sony and Microsoft unwilling to talk about the next generation of home gaming consoles, one video game industry executive believes that the next big battlefield for the two companies might be gaming-oriented television sets. Speaking to CVG, David Pery, one of the co-founders of Gaikai and the public face ... |
8 February 2012
21:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has been recently blamed for a number of security issues with the Xbox Live service and, in order to mark Safer Internet Day, the company has issued a statement showing its commitment to keeping Xbox Live users as safe as possible.
Alex Gardner, who is the general manager working on the Xbox Live service, ... |
8 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s note-taking application, “OneNote Mobile” has just been launched on Android. Those who use the PC version on a regular basis will probably recognize some of the features that have been integrated within “OneNote Mobile” for Android. Users will be able to create notes with im... |
8 February 2012
02:26 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed when it’s going to release its free-to-play flying simulator, called simply Microsoft Flight, which is now set to be available for download on February 29.
Lots of PC gamers were saddened by the closure of Microsoft Flight Simulator developer Ace Studios a few years ago. Since then, Mic... |
7 February 2012
17:21 GMT |
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The first games that will be included in the App Store of the Windows 8 operating system have been uncovered, including hugely popular titles like Angry Birds, as well as console games, like Ms Splosion Man or Ilomilo. Windows 8 will have a special App Store from where users of the operating system can download appl... |
7 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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It seems that a fight is brewing between video game hardware manufacturers Microsoft and Sony when it comes to their results on the Australian market, with both companies claiming that they have performed better during 2011 in the territory.
Microsoft has just announced that the Xbox 360 is the only console that has... |
7 February 2012
03:02 GMT |
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Stephen Toulouse, who is known to gamers as “Stepto” and is the director of policy and enforcement for the Xbox Live service from Microsoft, has announced that he is planning to leave his post in two weeks in order to explore a number of other opportunities.
Toulouse said that his job was to give Xbox Li... |
6 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware manufacturer Microsoft has launched a preview video for the upcoming Celts for the Age of Empire Online titles, showing off the features of the new race that will become available to all interested players.
The Celts are described as being masters of both crafting and metalworking, ... |
6 February 2012
05:48 GMT |
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After Kaspersky revealed that the Kelihos botnet they terminated back in September in a partnership with Microsoft and Kyrus Tech Inc. may have returned, the Redmond company comes forward with some clarifications, arguing that this is actually a new version of the Kelihos malware that’s being used to create a n... |
4 February 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Microsoft might not be ready to talk about its next home console, but at least one analyst believes that the company is very well positioned to dominate the coming hardware generation as long as it plays its cards right. Scott Steinberg, a marketing expert and an analyst watching the video game industry, tells Indus... |
2 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Google's updated privacy policy is just the latest thing that has gone wrong for Google in the past month. The company is clearly not having a great start of the new year.
The problem with the privacy policy change is that it came at the worst possible time, when it was already being criticized for Search Plus ... |
2 February 2012
09:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is set to reveal the first details about its upcoming Halo 4 first person shooter at the end of February, during its Xbox Spring Showcase event, at least according to a report coming from a magazine from Finland.
Halo 4 was originally revealed to the world back at E3 2011, when Microsoft deployed a small t... |
2 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Video game developer Turn 10 and publisher Microsoft have announced details about a new downloadable content pack which will be launched next week for Forza Motorsport 4, called the America Le Mans Series Pack.
Here are the ten cars that players will be able to drive in Forza Motorsport 4 after getting this new pack... |
2 February 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially confirmed that it won’t be releasing a new Xbox console this year, with one of its French executives confirming that the lifecycle of the Xbox 360 is far from over. The current Xbox 360 console is showing its age, as opposed to its biggest rival, the PlayStation 3. We’ve seen few... |
31 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Looks like all those reports about Windows 8 laptops featuring Kinect are true, though our dreams of having technology like in spy movies may not become reality as quickly as people hope.
People may or may not remember the recent reports about a pair of ASUS laptops on which Microsoft's Kinect sensor was insta... |
31 January 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Microsoft has initiated the procedure required to take down a website which is using the Halo 4 video game name to attract players.
The National Arbitration Forum has received a complaint from Microsoft against Halo4beta.com, which is described as being a fake page, which uses... |
30 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Some of the major technology firms, including Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo, joined their forces in creating a powerful email standard that should protect inboxes from spam and phishing messages.
DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, is actually a technical specification created ... |
30 January 2012
08:19 GMT |
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We already knew that Windows 8 was going to bring a slew of new features to the table, but we hadn't heard of Kinect-supporting laptops until today.
Nevertheless, that is exactly what recent reports say ASUS is working on.
To be a bit more specific, ASUS supposedly has two prototype netbooks with Windows 8 and... |
27 January 2012
11:20 GMT |
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Windows Phone devices are not up to the challenge when it comes to successfully competing against other mobile platforms such as Android and iOS. In fact, the first version of Windows Phone 7 proved to be among the most unpopular mobile operating systems.
All in all, Microsoft moved on and managed ... |
26 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Microsoft announced during the International Consumer Electronics Show that it would reintroduce the Must Have Games offering starting next month.
Each week of the month one game will be up for grabbing, and the first is EA’s ‘Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit’ title, which will go live on February... |
26 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Denmark wasn’t among the first European countries to get the Lumia 800 back in November 2011. Two months after the smartphone’s official announcement, Nokia Lumia 800 becomes available for purchase in Denmark starting this week.
The phone’s suggested retail price is 420 EUR (550 USD), but reg... |
26 January 2012
11:00 GMT |
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Nokia is the largest handset vendor in the world to have adopted Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, and the move is slowly starting to pay off for the Finnish company, it seems.
In the fourth quarter of last year, Nokia launched its first Windows Phone devices, the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. This year... |
26 January 2012
08:35 GMT |
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With the entire world becoming increasingly mobile every day, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft announced more services available for users on the go.
Xbox Live is one of the services that have already been made available for mobile phone users, though only for a small number of them so far.
Soon, ho... |
26 January 2012
06:59 GMT |
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A source which is close to the development process at Microsoft that will result in the next Xbox home console has told IGN that the video card the platform will use will be similar to the currently available AMD made Radeon HD 6670.
The card supports DirectX 11, 3D games, 1080p resolution and multi-display output o... |
26 January 2012
02:29 GMT |
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Another new report about the next Xbox console has appeared on the web, this time with rumors concerning IBM and Global Foundries, the two companies that are supposedly working on the hardware of the upcoming console, the oft-rumored Xbox 720.
The current Xbox 360 will still be around for quite some time, according ... |
25 January 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for research firm Wedbush Morgan, stated that the upcoming digital revolution would affect console makers in very different ways and might have the biggest negative impact on Nintendo and its Wii devices.
Speaking to IndustryGamers, the analyst stat... |
25 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Since the number of lottery scams recorded a considerable increase and a high rate of success, security companies and their experts are launching awareness raising campaigns to make sure Internet users learn to identify and ignore the malicious claims.
Experts from Kaspersky’s Securelist compared a number of t... |
25 January 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Star Wars fans and Kinect owners will finally be able to enjoy the long awaited Kinect Star Wars game in April, at least according to a listing mentioned by large UK retailer Argos in one of its newest catalogs.Kinect Star Wars has been in development for quite some time, with Microsoft trying to really deliver a qua... |
25 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has once again talked about exclusive games, emphasizing that, while it’s definitely lagging behind Sony’s PlayStation 3, its own Xbox 360 console will continue to get some quality exclusive titles in the future.
The Xbox 360 has seen a pretty big transformation over the last year or so, with t... |
24 January 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has just revealed a few more details about its upcoming Xbox Live House Party promotion, this time showing off the release dates for each of the four games, including Warp, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, Nexuiz, and I Am Alive, as well as their actual prices. Microsoft has always relied on special p... |
24 January 2012
12:31 GMT |
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A representative from Sony claims that his company has done more to cultivate relations with third-party developers than competitors like Microsoft or Apple. Speaking during the recent CES 2012 event, Jack Buser, who is the leader of the Home division at Sony Computer Entertainment, stated, “We have a 15 year ... |
24 January 2012
10:22 GMT |
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A brand new report claims that Microsoft will ditch its proprietary MS Points virtual currency, used on the Xbox Live, Zune or Windows Phone Marketplaces, in favor of real world currencies.
Microsoft’s MS Points haven’t really been loved by its customers, as they involved buying cards with codes for MS P... |
24 January 2012
06:51 GMT |
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4J Studios, the developer of the upcoming Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, has confirmed that Microsoft is keen on accelerating the current patching deployment on its console in order to streamline the updating process and get it on par with platforms like the PC.
Minecraft, one of the most popular indie games ever, b... |
24 January 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Those who are into Windows Phone devices will be happy to know that the Samsung Focus is now available for purchase for only $215 (165 EUR). Although the smartphone was launched more than a year ago, it’s still one of the best devices to run Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. Customers ca... |
23 January 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft’s application store has just passed 60,000 published apps. We reported last month that the portal exceeded 50,000 submitted apps, but we did not expect that the Windows Phone Marketplace would pass the 60,000 milestone so fast. The folks over at AllAboutWindowsPhone, ... |
23 January 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Redmond-giant Microsoft has apparently begun the production of the chip that will go inside the company’s next-generation Xbox console, with the first samples being expected to be finalized at the end of February.The chip, which is known under the code name of Oban, was apparently taped out by Microsoft sometim... |
21 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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A flaw currently present in Internet Explorer (IE) could be exploited by hackers and used to launch cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, due to the way double quotes (“) are encoded by the web browser. IMPERVA researchers found the vulnerability and contacted Microsoft, but the Redmond company doesn’t se... |
20 January 2012
11:07 GMT |
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According to Time's Fortune magazine, Google is the best web company to work for in 2012. The last time Google was on top of the same list was back in 2007, but the company is now back with a vengeance. Other web companies that scored on Fortune's Best Companies to Work for in 2012 include a list of famous... |
20 January 2012
07:04 GMT |
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Windows Phone might not enjoy great market share in the smartphone segment, but the platform is still profitable, at least to Microsoft.
The same as with many other products, Microsoft chose to adopt a licensing model with Windows Phone, and this has paid off, it appears.
Chinese handset vendor ZTE, one of the co... |
19 January 2012
10:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has made a statement concerning recent discoveries that said its Xbox.com website wasn’t secure, emphasizing that such attacks are quite common in the online gaming business. Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about Xbox Live accounts being hacked into, with nefarious individuals using stored cre... |
17 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Google has been deemed the fourth most valuable brand in the world, by Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2011 report, the same position it held last year. That's said, its perceived brand value grew by 27 percent in the last year, just not enough to topple the number three, Microsoft. Google's rival in... |
17 January 2012
10:03 GMT |
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