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Samsung Jack, the Windows Mobile-based handset available for purchase in the US on the airwaves of AT&T, has just received an update to the latest flavor of Microsoft's mobile platform, namely Windows Mobile 6.5. As many of you might already know, the Samsung Jack has been released on the market earlier this ye... |
5 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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It’s almost that time of the year again, and Microsoft is not wasting any time getting into the holiday spirit. The company has all the ingredients available, Santa Claus, elves, Christmas tree, and even a kid that persistently wants an Xbox 360 and would hear nothing else. Just watch the video embedded at the ... |
5 November 2009
09:33 GMT |
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As of November 4th, 2009, Microsoft started sending out notifications to 800 of its employees whose positions have been cut. With the latest round of layoffs, the Redmond company noted that it achieved the goals of its job reduction plan announced at the start of this year (via TechFlash). On January 22nd, no less th... |
5 November 2009
06:27 GMT |
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After nothing but rumors for the past couple of weeks, Microsoft has finally decided to break out the heavy guns and give a complete look at the rewards system for the Xbox Live. The program is only available as long as you've been invited, and Microsoft started handing the invitations out yesterday. The Xbox Li... |
4 November 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Windows Mobile 7, the next iteration of Microsoft's mobile operating system, which should emerge into the wild sometime in late 2010, is expected to include a great deal of enhancements over the previous flavors of the platform. Microsoft has already been reported to plan adding to it features like Zune services... |
4 November 2009
11:24 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is already known to plan to come to the market with a new flavor of Office Mobile, and it seems that the software giant might deliver an insight into the upcoming version as soon as the TechEd Europe conference will kick off in Berlin. Office Mobile 2010 is one of the versions o... |
4 November 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving forward with its tradition of releasing massive updates to its mapping, search and location platform. According to the Redmond company, the latest refresh to Bing Maps, formerly referred to as Virtual Earth, introduces an additional 9,460 square kilometers of imagery. Although Microsoft only offe... |
4 November 2009
09:03 GMT |
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There is not only a complex ecosystem of software and hardware products growing around the latest Windows platform from Microsoft, but also a world of materials focused on the operating system, offering different perspectives and insights. There is a number of Microsoft Press books already wrapped up and available fo... |
3 November 2009
12:31 GMT |
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The camera-based motion controller from Microsoft is expected to arrive in 2010 and the company is scrounging up resources from wherever it can to give the new device proper software support. The new Xbox 360 controller has already managed to enlist Fable III as one of the big games that will support it, as Peter Mol... |
3 November 2009
07:49 GMT |
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BlackBerry Storm2 9550, the second touchscreen-enabled mobile phone delivered to the market by Canadian handset maker Research In Motion, is already available for purchase in the United States on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless. Moreover, it comes with brand new features and improvements over the previous Storm, suc... |
2 November 2009
13:41 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 division at Microsoft does not feel in any way threatened by the rise of cloud-based computers like the recently revealed OnLive and Gaikai, believing that the current distribution model, focused on disk-based releases and downloadable content, will be central for the coming years.Jerry Johnson, who is t... |
2 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Thanks to an advertising technology partnership inked with OpenX, Microsoft has been granted access to a massive new distribution channel. According to the Redmond company, the OpenX community consists of in excess of 150,000 websites which deliver more than 300 billion advertisements per month. It will be through t... |
2 November 2009
09:17 GMT |
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Microsoft follows Google in the world’s Top 50 most attractive employers put together by Universum. The first global index of employer attractiveness has Google as THE company to work for on both the Global Top 50 Business and the Global Top 50 Engineering. Microsoft is only third on the Global Top 50 Business... |
2 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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You know a survival-horror game has some serious potential when it starts making the staff slightly insane. Threading on the edge of paranoia, one of the developers of Alan Wake discussed the possibility of cutting out the game's end for all pre-releases. Talking to G4TV, the developer shared his thoughts on the... |
2 November 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft released a few months ago a revamped and re-branded search engine, Bing, which also came to mobile phones shortly after the initial launch, and which now has seen as series of improvements on the mobile side. Up until now, the company has been mainly focused on enhancing the cap... |
31 October 2009
06:49 GMT |
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The first Xbox wasn't such a big hit in Japan when it was first released. In fact, it never really managed to catch their eye at all. So when Microsoft prepared to launch the Xbox 360 they decided to take some extra steps to ensure the console would do better. Their plan consisted in developing a new game that m... |
30 October 2009
04:41 GMT |
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HealthVault, a Microsoft service designed for both patients and healthcare professionals to store and share their health information in the Cloud, is being rolled out for the first time in an international hospital. Bumrungrad Hospital in Thailand is not only the first internationally accredited hospital in Asia, but... |
29 October 2009
07:18 GMT |
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Nobody expected the Yahoo Microsoft deal to go that smoothly and it's already seeing the first delays. When the deal was initially announced on July 29 the two parties said that a finalized agreement would be signed by October 27 but that date has come and passed and the two companies are now saying they need mo... |
29 October 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has signed the death sentence of MSN Direct and is informing customers that they will be able to continue using the service for two years and a couple of months before it will be discontinued. MSN Direct was designed to accompany the company’s smart “Spot” watches, products that have thems... |
28 October 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Microsoft doesn't really seem to know what else it can do with Fable 2 in order to make sure every last drop of potential has been milked from the game. Not so long ago, it re-released the title in an episodic format and, now, it plans to make a move with the Fable 2 Pub Games. It probably doesn't really ma... |
27 October 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has revealed the results of its Entertainment and Devices Division, which oversees the strategy for the Xbox 360 home gaming console, showing that sales have remained pretty much unchanged from one year ago, but that the operating income has gone up by a whopping 96%, reaching 312 million dollars. The resul... |
27 October 2009
04:50 GMT |
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It's all beginning to feel a lot like deja vu. A few days ago, Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, had an exclusive interview with Gizmodo, in which he touched on the subject of the Xbox 360 gaming console and the company's future plans for it. The Microsoft boss seemed to say that the ... |
26 October 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The leaked direct download links for Windows 7 followed promptly the October 22nd general availability deadline, offering end users access to the latest iteration of the Windows client. After the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft started to rely on the electronic distribution of the Windows operating system, in add... |
26 October 2009
14:21 GMT |
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In what seemed like an inevitable scenario for those upgrading to Windows 7, angry reports on Microsoft's support forum reveal that some users are seeing their PCs crippled by an endless series of reboots. A Microsoft engineer writing on the same forum says the company is investigating the issues, but labels the... |
26 October 2009
10:48 GMT |
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On October 22nd, 2009, Windows hit store shelves worldwide, and, unlike its predecessor, it was received with accolades. While stirring up user enthusiasm, Windows 7 also managed to generate a consistent number of headlines around the world. And, apparently, enthusiasm was contagious, while, at the same time, there w... |
24 October 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Yahoo is still far from recovery and, despite a very important deal with Microsoft, it's beginning to look that it wasn't enough to sway the general opinion about the company's future. And that deal itself is looking worse and worse as time goes by, with many believing that Yahoo could have gotten ... |
24 October 2009
06:26 GMT |
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With Windows Mobile 6.5 being already out on the market since October 6 this year, and with the development of Windows Mobile 7 having started for quite some time now, it seems that all that Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has to do is plan the release of future versions of its mobile operating system, with Wi... |
24 October 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Ubisoft and Microsoft have joined hands to introduce multi-touch capabilities to the upcoming R.U.S.E. strategy game, which is set to appear in the first quarter of 2010 for home-gaming consoles and for the PC. The development of the game is handled by Eugen System and, apart from the multi-touch feature, which has b... |
23 October 2009
17:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has made public the financial results for the first quarter of the 2010 fiscal year, managing to beat forecasts. However, the Redmond company did report a drop in revenue compared to the same quarter of FY 2009. Essentially, Microsoft revealed that for the quarter ended on September 30, 2009, it accounted f... |
23 October 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that it is dropping the paper version of the TechNet Magazine come December 2009. According to the Redmond company, the fact that the TechNet Magazine will no longer be available in paper form will not impact in any way the project itself. In this regard, the software giant has underlined that... |
23 October 2009
06:49 GMT |
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A lot of rumors have been flying around about a possible connection between Fable 3 and Project Natal. Most of the annoying little insects have been raised by Peter Molyneux, a game designer for Lionhead Studios with a history of talking out of place. Molyneux became a famous figure after the huge statements he gave ... |
22 October 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft seems ready to add some more features to its future Windows Mobile 7 operating system in its quest to making the platform much more user friendly. It seems that the upcoming platform flavor and Xbox Live will be joined, something that has been rumored a few times before and now ... |
22 October 2009
07:15 GMT |
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It's been reported that so-called “unauthorized storage devices” will not be allowed to work anymore with the Xbox 360 home-gaming console by the upcoming update for the device, which is due to arrive before November. The news has been reported by Larry Hryb, also known as Major Nelson, one of the bo... |
22 October 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Sony have put together a brand-new device and they've already filed the patent for the invention. The tip is brought by Siliconera and Sony's newest masterpiece appears to be some sort of game controller. The PlayStation 3 gadget is designed to be a one-hand device and any other details regarding it are vir... |
22 October 2009
04:33 GMT |
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One of the advantages that the PlayStation 3 has publicized since the beginning of the console battle of this generation has been the presence of an integrated Blu-ray drive, which allows for bigger capacity disks to be used and for the game console to play high-quality movies. The Xbox 360 has tried to counter by b... |
22 October 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Microsoft seems to be considering a rewards program for a segment of the Xbox Live subscribers, probably later to be extended to the whole service. An e-mail has been sent by the creator of the Xbox 360 to a select few gamers inviting them to join what is described as an “exclusive pilot rewards program.”... |
21 October 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Microsoft has outed the usual response to the figures released by the NPD Group for software and hardware sales for September in North America. The company is obviously happy to talk about the impressive numbers posted by Halo 3: ODST, developed by Bungie, managing to sell more than 1.5 million copies even though it ... |
21 October 2009
02:41 GMT |
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Xbox Live has a big autumn update coming up, and it's going to bring a whole lot of new features. After the update, the online service will support an MSNBC news feed, a music-focused marketplace and high-definition Zune videos. It will also integrate in its system the Last.fm, Twitter and Facebook applications.... |
20 October 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The weekly Xbox Live Arcade additions have been announced and one title is going to stir some mixed feelings with a lot of the more experienced gamers. There are two games that will enter the Xbox Live tab on Wednesday and they're both priced at 800 Microsoft Points, or $10. The first is a less known title, Towe... |
20 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Software giant Microsoft announced on Monday that Sidekick users who lost data during the recent server outage should be able to start restoring their contacts as soon as this week, and today it has announced that the process has already been started. Sidekick users can now restore contacts to their devices, this bei... |
20 October 2009
09:51 GMT |
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With CEO Carol Bartz at the Yahoo helm, Microsoft has finally managed to find an ally against Google on the search and online advertising markets. Announced earlier this year, the new anti-Google marriage is a victory for CEO Steve Ballmer who, at one time, even sought to buy the Internet giant to get closer to the M... |
20 October 2009
05:26 GMT |
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The proposed Microsoft – Yahoo deal made waves last summer but it still has to get the approval of the regulatory bodies before moving forward and a deal involving the number two and the number three search engines in the market is likely to fall under a lot of scrutiny. But as it awaits approval, it's get... |
20 October 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Forza 3 and Borderlands haven't been officially launched yet, but that doesn't mean the games can't be found somewhere. If we look back at the X Men: Origins movie, it became available as a pirated version, as an unfinished work-print, way before the film was in theaters. So as long as the will exists,... |
19 October 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The Sidekick data loss / recovery issue will still have to wait for a few more days before everything is put back in order. Redmond-based software company Microsoft (which acquired Danger, the company in charge with the Sidekick data, last year) announced on Sunday that users might see their data restored this week. ... |
19 October 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has already started the work on the development of another flavor of its mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7. The company has just released into the wild a new version of the platform, namely Windows Mobile 6.5, and showed a greater focus on the development of its client f... |
18 October 2009
08:14 GMT |
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MACH and Microsoft have announced recently that they have extended their partnership aimed at market availability of Microsoft's Windows Live mobile messaging services. According to the agreement between the two companies, MACH will deliver Windows Live SMS services in a series of new markets, along with the mar... |
16 October 2009
09:44 GMT |
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The NPD Group sales numbers for September will not be coming out until Monday but the various console manufacturers have already begun putting out statements related to the order in which the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii will arrive. Microsoft seems determined to preempt the expected dominance of ... |
16 October 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has addressed a new statement release to T-Mobile Sidekick users, announcing them that it managed to recovered the data lost during the recent outage. According to the company, it has managed to recover almost all of the lost data, if not all of it, which means that users affect... |
15 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
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If Nvidia is not the best producer of video cards for the PC, it is certainly the most popular. Most games carry the “The way it's meant to be played” catch phrase and are pretty much optimized for this particular chipset. But consoles run on a different track, so it's no wonder they have differ... |
15 October 2009
04:52 GMT |
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The Sidekick data loss issue that made the headlines during the past few days has been brought to court by Sidekick customer Maureen Thompson from Atlanta, who filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and T-Mobile on the account that these companies failed to securely and automatically back up users' data, although the... |
15 October 2009
04:23 GMT |
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