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Those hoping to use IM to spread the word on a great band or movie they found via The Pirate Bay with their friends are out of luck. Windows Live Messenger is actively blocking any link to the popular BitTorrent site. Copyright-dependent industries have tried everything to block The Pirate Bay, but have failed in al... |
26 March 2012
09:31 GMT |
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A faster web is on everyone's mind. Google's SPDY, an updated HTTP protocol, is picking up steam and Microsoft wants in on the action as well so it's come up with its own improved HTTP which it dubs "HTTP Speed+Mobility." The timing of the announcement is not coincidental, the Internet Engineering Tas... |
26 March 2012
08:50 GMT |
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Microsoft, along with Kyrus Tech Inc and some of the leaders of the financial services industry, managed to deliver a blow to a few cybercriminal organizations by disrupting the activities of a number of botnets which relied on the infamous Zeus Trojan.
The Redmond company’s representatives state that they&rsq... |
26 March 2012
06:14 GMT |
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After launching a handful of Windows Phone devices, Nokia and Microsoft plan to focus their resource on creating the ecosystem in which these devices should be integrated.
Unfortunately, Windows Phone Marketplace barely exceeds 70,000 apps, which is nowhere near Apple App Store and Google Play’s almost half m... |
26 March 2012
03:36 GMT |
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In January 2012, Microsoft kicked off the “Smoked by Windows Phone” challenge, which offered users the possibility to win $100 if the smartphones in their hands, running under a different OS than Windows Phone, were faster.
As part of this challenge, users were asked to perform specific tasks on their ... |
26 March 2012
02:13 GMT |
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A recent rumor about the next Xbox-branded home console from Microsoft has suggested that the device might implement a way of stopping gamers from playing used games, but the biggest specialist video game retailer says that there is no technical way to implement such a feature.
Paul Rainer, the chief executive offic... |
23 March 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has just unveiled a brand new promotion it will be running on its Xbox Live online service, in the form of Arcade Next. The company’s Game Studios will publish four impressive downloadable titles exclusively for the Xbox 360, in the form of Trials Evolution, Bloodforge, Fable Heroes, and Minecraft. T... |
23 March 2012
11:21 GMT |
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One source inside Microsoft claims that at the moment the gaming-oriented division of the company is working on two new consoles, one of them being a stripped down version of the current Xbox for the casual market and another a true successor device that will be aimed at the hardcore fans.
Writing on the Reddit plat... |
23 March 2012
06:48 GMT |
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This weekend, phones that are faster than Windows Phone can bring you a PC worth $1,000, the latest reports on the web suggest. Apparently, Microsoft has decided to increase the prize in its "Smoked by Windows Phone" campaign by ten-fold, so as to show to the world that it is confident on the capabilities of its pl... |
23 March 2012
06:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that it will donate a number of Xbox 360 home consoles and Kinect systems, along with video games, for them to the group Right to Play, which tries to improve the lives of children by teaching them through sports and technology about a variety of social issues.
Microsoft will also fund some R... |
22 March 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has just kicked off a massive wave of discounts for various games and DLC published by THQ, including full titles like Stacking or Costume Quest, as well as plenty of extra content for Saints Row 2 or Homefront.
Sony has been running all sorts of great promotions on its PlayStation Store, from the current ... |
22 March 2012
11:41 GMT |
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At the Game Developers Conference 2012 in San Francisco developer Lionhead and publisher Microsoft have announced that they are working on a new spin-off for the core Fable series called Heroes, which is the first and probably not the last game to be linked to the core universe of the series without advancing its mai... |
21 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone users in China can grab the first Windows Phone device to officially reach their country, none other than the HTC Eternity.
Coming from Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation, the new device will be sold unlocked in the country, with a variety of Chinese applications packed inside.
The ... |
21 March 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Yet another high-profile video game creator has attacked the concept of an used game market, saying that it is making it harder for teams to create high-quality games because of the higher risks now involved in the creation and sales process.
Speaking to Gamasutra, David Braben, who is responsible for the creation o... |
20 March 2012
20:31 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and publisher Microsoft has apparently created a new category of video game projects, advertising a job opening for an AAAA project, which might signal a title that is being linked to the next hardware platform from the company. The job ad, linked to the position of executive producer, ... |
19 March 2012
21:01 GMT |
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One of the latest applications that Microsoft themselves made available for the owners of handsets running under the Windows Phone operating system is Bing Dictionary.
The mobile app was made available last week with a variety of useful features packed inside, including the support for local and online dictionary ... |
19 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Since it became obvious that a fully functional Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exploit code is available, a researcher scanned part of the Internet to determine how many computers communicate using RDP.
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky scanned around 300 million IPs, of which around 414,000 turned out to be potential... |
19 March 2012
12:03 GMT |
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Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave. Apple Inc., the computer company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak in the 70s, is using Microsoft’s Zune marketing materials to pitch iTunes as “Your Entertainment. Everywhere.”A feature article by Zunited aims to show that Apple has, on multiple occasions, in... |
17 March 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Microsoft might be officially stating that it is not currently working on a new home console, but at least two job ads suggest that the console is real and that developers are already creating titles for it.
A Microsoft job listing, which has been taken down by the company, said, &ldquo... |
16 March 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Security researchers found a proof-of-concept (POC) vulnerability code that exploits the Remote Desktop Protocol issue patched up by Microsoft on March 13.
When the security update was made available, the Redmond company urged customers to apply the fix as soon as possible, especially since they were expecting that ... |
16 March 2012
08:28 GMT |
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In a surprising move, Nokia decided to ship the Lumia 610 with an important feature that lacks in other Lumia family smartphones, Wi-Fi hotspot.
Wi-Fi hotspot is an Internet sharing function that allows Lumia 610 owners to turn their smartphone into a router and provide mobile data to up to 5 Wi-Fi enabled devices.
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16 March 2012
06:13 GMT |
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Crytek has confirmed that its Ryse project for the Kinect is still in development, despite the fact that no other details have appeared about the game since its reveal at last year’s E3 conference.
Ryse was among the variety of Kinect games for the Xbox 360 that were revealed by Microsoft back in 2011, impress... |
16 March 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Three of the Vulnerability Lab’s researchers worked together on finding and demonstrating a critical editor Flash component vulnerability on Microsoft’s Bing Service Application.
Security experts Subho Halder, Aditya Gupta and Dev Kar identified the critical severity flaw and reported it to Microsoft on ... |
16 March 2012
03:53 GMT |
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343 Industries, the new studio in charge of the Halo franchise, has confirmed that it’s already outlining the story arc for the trilogy that’s being set up by Halo 4 this fall.
The Halo series has been around for over 10 years, as the franchise developed by Bungie managed to keep players entertained with... |
15 March 2012
18:31 GMT |
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The sum of $1,435 (1,076 EUR) is offered for the programmer who can develop a fully operational exploit for the recently patched up Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerability.
At the time the patch was released, Microsoft admitted that it was aware of the fact that an exploit might be released in the follo... |
15 March 2012
04:07 GMT |
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The security bulletins released by Microsoft as part of the March 2012 updates address a couple of vulnerabilities that affect the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Even though the security holes have been reported privately and there is no known exploitation in the wild, customers are advised to immediately update the... |
14 March 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, the current leader of the Lionhead development team, has stated that he is leaving the company in order to move to a new developer called 22 Cans, and some fans have worried about the impact that the move will have on the Fable series.
Two former developers of the franchise, which has so far been exc... |
13 March 2012
21:51 GMT |
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The executives at Microsoft working on the Halo franchise have stated that the return of Halo and Master Chief this fall means that the company has the biggest exclusive series in the history of gaming, which compares favorably with Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, which manage to compete because they are multiplat... |
13 March 2012
18:31 GMT |
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The Gears of War series has been seen as a great example of macho-oriented entertainment, which focuses on violence and simple relations between characters rather than on complexity and emotion, although the developers at Epic Games always have in mind other directions for the game. Speaking to the PA Report, Cliff ... |
13 March 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering 33 percent credit to all of its customers who have been affected by an outage that hit the Windows Azure platform on February 29th.
On that day, the Windows Azure management system went down due to a software bug that Microsoft identifies as the “leap day” bug.
Basically, due to... |
13 March 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Photosynth app is now available to all iDevice users worldwide, and includes performance optimizations for iOS 5 and adds Twitter sharing.
Photosynth was previously stuck with two sharing services for photo panoramas - Bing Maps and Facebook. The iOS app now does Twitter too, and it works better on... |
13 March 2012
05:41 GMT |
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We're coming up with another nice trick for the Windows users: we've just started to list a lot of drivers that are usually comprised within the Windows Update Catalog.
This means a ton of printers, soundcards, modems and WLAN/ LAN cards and pretty much any hardware you might have inside your computer. We&... |
12 March 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Researchers from French security firm VUPEN identified a couple of zero-day vulnerabilities that affect Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 9. A Microsoft representative has detailed the patch-up process that’s about to take place in the next days. ZDNet was at Pwn2Own 2012 and managed to get a quick inte... |
12 March 2012
11:27 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux recently announced that he was leaving both video game publisher Microsoft and developer Lionhead after the completion of the most recent Fable video game. However, before that he seems determined to make gamers believe in the superiority of the motion-powered Kinect over traditional controllers. ... |
12 March 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Sony hasn’t released a new device running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone for a couple of years, but it appears that this might indeed change sooner or later. The mobile phone maker is still open to Windows Phone, even if it appears to have long moved away from it. In fact, Sony's Product Marketing ... |
12 March 2012
03:30 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is gearing up to shut down the Windows Marketplace for Mobile service that was launched in October 2009 to accompany the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform release.
The service did not enjoy too much popularity among users, mainly due to the fact that it got replaced only one year l... |
9 March 2012
14:11 GMT |
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This is not the first time this particular Sony Ericsson powered by Windows Phone operating system leaks in the wild. The first pics showing the Sony Ericsson Julie appeared last year, along with some of its specs.
Given the fact that this is a prototype unit, it might run an older version of Windows Phone or pre-re... |
9 March 2012
08:41 GMT |
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During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft’s partners announced the release of low-end devices powered by a new flavor of Windows Phone, codenamed Tango.
The new OS flavor comes with support for much lower hardware specifications than before, thus allowing handset vendors to design cheap... |
8 March 2012
16:51 GMT |
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A security researcher that goes by the online handle Flexxpoint found a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft’s main site. The official sites of Dell Australia and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) were identified as containing security holes by the grey hat hacker team known as BlitzSec. E Hack... |
8 March 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, who is the current leader of Lionhead Studios, has officially announced that he plans to leave the developer and Microsoft after he completes his current project, called Fable: The Journey, in order to work fulltime for a new company called 22 Cans.
The veteran developer is also currently working as ... |
8 March 2012
04:51 GMT |
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What we know Nintendo has announced that it is designing a new home console, called the Wii U, at the E3 2011 trade event and we are expecting to see full specifications and a list of launch titles at this year’s edition of the show, with the launch set for later during the summer. Meanwhile both Sony and Mic... |
7 March 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Microsoft and Lionhead studios have just released a brand new batch of screenshots for Fable: The Journey, their upcoming title that’s going to arrive on Xbox 360 consoles fitted with Kinect sensors later this year.Fable: The Journey is definitely an interesting game, allowing players to cast spells and magic a... |
6 March 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Microsoft's efforts at smearing Google seem to be intensifying lately. Granted, Google is doing its best to help it, or at least that's what it looks like. The Redmond company hasn't ever liked Google very much and it's been firing away at the company for years in the best way it knows how, via it... |
5 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Besides the upcoming Fable: The Journey, it seems that Microsoft and Lionhead are preparing another project, in the form of Fable Heroes, a downloadable title that’s actually a cooperative-focused adventure game.Q
The Fable series has impressed quite a lot of Xbox 360 owners in recent years, even if technical ... |
5 March 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 home console managed to beat both the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Nintendo Wii when it comes to overall sales in the United States during 2011, and Microsoft has even bigger plans for its gaming platform for this year.
Steve Beinner, the director of marketing for first-party games working at Microso... |
5 March 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Another day, another Halo 4 leak, as this time, after a false teaser trailer, two in-game screenshots from the upcoming title have appeared on the web, supposedly straight from Microsoft’s recent Xbox Spring Showcase event. Halo 4 is set to start a new trilogy for the first person shooter series developed by B... |
5 March 2012
07:01 GMT |
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Nokia is selling its Lumia series smartphones in India for quite some time. However, it appears that the Windows Phone devices are not that popular, which is why Nokia decided to cut prices on some of these phones.After discounting the already cheap Lumia 710, Nokia has recently slashed 20% off Lumia 800 price to mak... |
3 March 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Microsoft has launched the consumer preview of its next-generation Windows operating system and, sure enough, NVIDIA did not stay silent about what this means for it.
For those that don't know yet, Microsoft has released the early, testing version of its Windows 8 operating system.
If you folks haven't ... |
1 March 2012
05:25 GMT |
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The importance Halo as a franchise holds for Microsoft means that the development team at 343 Industries and the representative of the publisher will put in the effort and the resources in order to make the game experience great.
Speaking to Gamespot, Alex Seropian, who is one of the co-founders of Bungie and one of... |
29 February 2012
18:31 GMT |
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It seems that Microsoft is already holding development summits linked to Durango, which is rumored to be the codename for the next-generation home console for the company, and one of them has just taken place in London. Sean Tracy, who is a technical designer for Crysis studio Crytek, has posted on his personal Twit... |
29 February 2012
10:08 GMT |
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