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Finally, after months of development and refinements, the large LCD surface that Samsung and Microsoft have made is ready to ship to customers.
The SUR40 from Samsung would pass for an all-in-one computer if it weren't for its shape and the targeted applications.
For those that missed the official demonstrat... |
17 January 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Now that CES 2012 is over and the rumor mill is back to its usual self, reports have again begun to seep in about Wintel tablets and how they may be tricky to sell at first.
Tablets powered by x86 CPUs and loaded with Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system sound like a good deal to anyone who owns a PC.
Afte... |
16 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Shortly after LG and Microsoft announced that they had inked a partnership over the Android patent use, another South Korean handset manufacturer is about to sign a similar agreement with the Redmond-based giant. According to Yonhap News, Pantech is in talks with Microsoft over the Android patent use, but addi... |
16 January 2012
12:12 GMT |
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The vulnerability used by hackers to break into Xbox Live accounts might have been uncovered recently, as two websites have posted similar walkthroughs that show how cyber-attackers could exploit Microsoft’s Xbox.com website and force their way into the accounts of its users. While Microsoft has denied in rec... |
16 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Hoping to get an extra performance boost from Microsoft’s Bulldozer hotfix? Don’t get your hopes up yet, as it seems like even if this does actually bring some improvements these are too small to even mention.Shortly after Microsoft made public the KB2645594 and KB2646060 Windows 7 updates, TweakPC.de has... |
13 January 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Skype has released a new update for the beta version of their application, incrementing the build number to 5.7.0.137. The new version takes care of some bugs relating to... well, video calling mostly.
Out of the three bugs that have been killed off, one addressed a crash issue, which would occur when copying a Powe... |
13 January 2012
02:50 GMT |
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Microsoft has finally released the official details on the 2012 edition of its traditional Xbox Live House Party promo, which is set to start on February 15 and includes four great games.
Microsoft relies on special events to raise the hype around major digital releases that happen on its Xbox Live online service, i... |
12 January 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is expected to ship Windows Phone devices in excess of 37 million during this year alone, recent reports suggest.
The company has just unveiled a new Windows Phone device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Nokia Lumia 900, its first handset to pack support for LTE n... |
12 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for making a series of changes to Windows Phone’s UI, a recent job listing on the company’s website suggests. The company is hiring a User Experience engineer for the Mobile Studio team.
The Redmond-based company notes that it is looking to make changes to its future mobile prod... |
12 January 2012
11:22 GMT |
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Microsoft managed to sign a new Android patent license agreement with a leading mobile phone maker, this time with LG.
The company signed a similar agreement with Samsung in September last year, and has agreements with other popular Android phone makers as well, including HTC and Acer.
Over 70 percent of all... |
12 January 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Anyone hoping that AMD would manage to make Bulldozer chips much faster on Windows 7 systems may want to give up on that lofty wish. AMD has just posted a blog announcing the availability of a scheduler update for the Windows 7 operating system. The hotfix was developed by Microsoft, based on the Windows 8 schedu... |
12 January 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Although AT&T is the carrier that announced the latest Windows Phone device, it appears that Verizon Wireless continues to support Microsoft mobile platform by delivering updates for its devices.
The latest on the list of smartphone readied for a maintenance update is the HTC Trophy. The carrier already publis... |
11 January 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Windows Phone is picking up steam, and 2012 is expected to help it gain significant market share. Microsoft is keen on making sure that things are indeed like this, and came to CES 2012 to showcase the platform’s capabilities compared to what rivals have to offer.
The Redmond-based company was determined t... |
11 January 2012
11:16 GMT |
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Microsoft released a number of seven security bulletins for January 2012 that address vulnerabilities found in Windows Media, Windows ClickOnce application installer, Windows Object Packager, the operating system’s Kernel, and the now famous SSL/TLS protocol weakness dubbed BEAST. The vulnerability in the SSL ... |
11 January 2012
02:56 GMT |
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The CES 2012 show has not been particularly video game oriented, with most companies concerned more with the next in television technology and smartphone development, but Microsoft included the Xbox 360 in its presentation.
Steve Ballmer, who is the current chief executive officer of Microsoft, and Ryan Seacrest, wh... |
11 January 2012
02:50 GMT |
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The developer of well received XBLA title Dishwater: Dead Samurai has offered some details on his upcoming project, saying that it has moved away from his initial intentions and is now linked to a number of over the top acts of violence.Speaking to Joystiq James Silva, who is the leader of the Ska Stiudios, has state... |
10 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a refund to one of its Xbox Live users after she fell prey to a phishing scam and saw her account used by hackers to purchase thousands of Microsoft Points.
After hackers started stealing accounts from all sorts of Xbox 360 owners and then used them to buy various things, mostly relating to FIFA... |
10 January 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that it will finally release a special edition of its Kinect sensor, designed specifically for the Windows operating system, which will cost more than the regular edition made for the Xbox 360. Microsoft’s Kinect has been a pretty big success, at least considering sales figures or the a... |
10 January 2012
02:35 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft is now the best selling game platform in North America and seems to be poised for a 2012 than is even better than last year but a number of analysts believe that the hardware needs to see improvements this year to remain competitive while the services offered to gamers also re... |
9 January 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has just let loose a series of charts with the most popular games on its Xbox 360 platform and, to the surprise of almost no one, the three most played games on the platform are all part of the Call of Duty franchise.
The Xbox 360 is a platform dominated by hardcore games and thanks to the newest charts fr... |
9 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has posted an online job listing according to which the Redmond software giant needs an experienced developer who will bring the greatest gaming experience to numerous mobile platforms, including Apple’s iOS.
Microsoft has shown quite some interest in developing software for third-party platforms rec... |
9 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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The report about ASUS and its 3G Transformer Prime tablet held a tidbit of information some may not have been expecting, possibly because it conflicts with statements from another company. According to SlashGear, ASUS has 150 people working on a tablet running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system. ... |
7 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is playing second fiddle to Google in several areas, online maps being one of them. But, as everywhere else, Microsoft is working on improving the service, in the latest update Bing Maps has improved the routing engine quite a lot, it's twice as fast as before in some cases."I can tell you that we&rsqu... |
6 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has decided to make a few changes to the restrictions imposed to the developers that have been releasing games on its Xbox Live Indie section. It now allows them to create titles with bigger sizes, price them lower, and release more of them from their account.
The Xbox 360 console draws in a variety of gam... |
5 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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UFC first arrived on the Xbox 360 recently but fans have complained that technical issues have limited their enjoyment of the event.The statement from Microsoft says, “The broadcast of UFC 141 through the UFC for Xbox LIVE application was hampered by technical issues appearing in the hours leading up to the fig... |
5 January 2012
09:45 GMT |
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After closing down the Aces Studio which came up with its long running Microsoft Flight Simulator series, the company has presented the all-new Microsoft Flight, which is now a free-to-play simulator that will be available for download this spring.
While a variety of flight games were released over the years, Micros... |
5 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has just been granted a huge patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, which covers the creation of a device that can function both as a games console as well as a digital video recorder (DVR).
Microsoft wants to turn its current Xbox 360 into a true entertainment hub, offering not just gaming function... |
5 January 2012
05:29 GMT |
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Next week, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia might unveil to the world its newest Windows Phone flagship device, the long rumored Nokia Lumia 900, which sports the codename of Nokia Ace. The handset is said to be on its way to the United States market as well, where wireless carrier AT&T will add it to its offering.... |
4 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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2012 might have just started but analyst are ready to make some pretty bold predictions about how the industry will do in the coming year, with one industry watcher saying that Microsoft will surely announce the Xbox 360 successor at the E3 2012 trade event while Sony will miss that date and might make an official an... |
3 January 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Current generation consoles need to evolve past their gaming-focused roots and adopt as many services and extra entertainment features as possible in order to continue selling well, at least according to analyst Scott Steinberg, who believes that extra features are even better than exclusive games.
Seeing as how cur... |
30 December 2011
03:11 GMT |
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Microsoft rushed to release an out-of-band security update to resolve a denial-of-service (DoS) issue that affected ASP.NET versions 1.1 and later on all supported variants of the .NET framework. A large number of web platforms are affected by the hash collision problem, but the Redmond company was among the first to... |
30 December 2011
01:44 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 800, the first Windows Phone device from the Finnish mobile phone maker, is now available for purchase in Sweden, while its brother, the Nokia Lumia 710, also started to emerge in stores around Europe.
The Lumia 800 was added to Telia’s offering and was made available for purchase in three color ... |
29 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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On December 29, 2011, at 10:00 AM Pacific Time Microsoft will release an out-of-band security update to address a critical security flaw found in ASP.NET, that affects all supported versions of the .NET framework, which could allow for an unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) attack on servers that serve ASP.NET we... |
29 December 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is expected to enact a new policy that will remove all gun and weapon-like props from the Xbox Live Marketplace, which were designed to be showed off with Xbox 360 avatars created by all users of the console.
Since their relatively awkward introduction in 2008, avatars have become pretty popular, especiall... |
28 December 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is definitely shifting its strategy from getting as many exclusive games as possible onto its Xbox 360 platform to getting as much content, whether it’s Call of Duty DLC or TV on Demand, onto its console. As such, 2011 was quite slim in terms of full-pledged exclusive games for the device, but, among ... |
23 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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The HTC Radar is already offered in white and metal silver, but recently a different color combo has been spotted at Microsoft.
According to the folks over at WindowsPhoneDaily, a two-toned black and white HTC Radar 4G with T-Mobile USA’s logo has recently been spotted on Microsoft’s US Windows Pho... |
23 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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The Google Mozilla search deal saga is finally behind us. The two companies announced a renewed deal this week for the next three years. Later, the financial details were leaked and they were quite interesting.
Google will be paying $300 million, €230 million per year, minimum, for the honor of retaining the de... |
23 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Microsoft representatives posted a message on their German Chief Security Advisory Blog in which they confirm the vulnerability found a few days ago by WebDevil who showed that by accessing a specially crafted HTML file in Safari someone would be able to crash the operating system.
The researchers claim that the wea... |
23 December 2011
09:46 GMT |
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During the holidays, when people tend to travel more, you can expect an email from one of your friends who desperately needs your help after he's been mugged and left without a dime. In many situations, this means that the friend’s email has been compromised and the hackers are relying on it to send their ... |
23 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that it’s working on solutions for errors that have been plaguing the Xbox 360 users, specifically those that result in error codes 801540B7 and 80070571, which are encountered by gamers when they try to log into their profile and then prevents their access to things like profile managem... |
22 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Unsuspecting Internet users may be presented these days with an email that claims they won $1 million (700,000 EUR) in the Microsoft Lottery, but, in reality, there is no such thing as the Microsoft Lottery.
“We wish to congratulate you once again in this note, for being part of our winner selected at the begi... |
22 December 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has just deployed a brand new batch of entertainment apps on its Xbox Live online service for the Xbox 360, while announcing a big new partnership with Orange TV for gamers living in France.Microsoft is staying true to its word by turning the Xbox 360 into a proper entertainment hub through strategic partne... |
21 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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A hacker known as w3bd3vil posted a message on Twitter a couple of days ago claiming that he found a vulnerability in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 that could be taken advantage of using Apple’s popular web browser Safari. “<iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD... |
21 December 2011
03:21 GMT |
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The U.S. Entertainment Rating Software Board has just published a detailed listing for the upcoming Star Wars Kinect title, describing just what type of gameplay it will have, including, besides regular Jedi battles or pod racing, even dance contests.Star Wars Kinect has been a long time coming, with the developers a... |
20 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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A gamer in North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against video game hardware maker and publisher Sony, claiming that the company used business practices when it introduced a new provision in the Terms of Service for the PlayStation 3 that accompanied the most recent firmware update.Another similar legal action stated th... |
20 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Hotmail has got a series of cosmetic changes lately, and users all around the world can now benefit from them.
There are several new features that Microsoft’s customers can enjoy with this release, which means more reasons for users to love Hotmail.
The Redmond-based company is aware of this, and has just p... |
19 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Rumors about Nokia putting the Windows 8 on a tablet emerged last month, but the Finnish company did not make any comments on the rumors at that time. Although the rumors cited Nokia’s official in France, Paul Amsellem, as saying that the handset manufacturer plans to have a tablet computer running Windows... |
19 December 2011
06:08 GMT |
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It looks like an answer has appeared for the dilemma that Microsoft gave birth to when it launched a Bulldozer patch and subsequently yanked it from its website.
By now, many people, especially buyers of one of the AMD Bulldozer central processing units, are likely experiencing something resembling mild befuddlem... |
17 December 2011
06:37 GMT |
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We reported earlier that Microsoft had published a free Windows update that supposedly had what it took to make AMD's 8-core Bulldozer central processing units (CPUs) run properly but, lo and behold, it is gone. It appears that, by going to the download page of the hotfix, after one agrees to the license agree... |
16 December 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Rumors about the new home console from Microsoft have been growing in scope throughout 2011 and now a new batch suggests that gamers will see the device during 2012 and might be surprised by the design choices of the development team.Unnamed sources inside Microsoft have told CNET that Don Coyner, who is the man who ... |
16 December 2011
03:56 GMT |
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