May, 2013

Can Windows 8.1 “save” Bing (and vice versa)?

marilyn searchToday, Microsoft officially acknowledged a number of details about changes coming to Windows via the Windows 8.1 update, coming later this year (with a preview expected as early as the end of June), including new updates to the Windows …

Renders of Huawei Ascend W2 leaked, coming later this year

HuaweiHuawei, one of the four Windows Phone 8 OEMs at this stage, announced their first device – the Huawei Ascend W1, back in January this year. The device was only just released to the US market at Walmart as …

Surface Pro coming to Japan with 256GB version

Microsoft Japan announced that the Surface Pro will be available in Japan on June 7th. The versions of Surface Pro will be 128GB and 256GB, and there is no 64GB. Thanks to the Translator, we learn that the Japanese pricing …

Samsung to unveil new ATIV Windows device(s) on June 20

SamsungSamsung has published on their press website that they will be holding an event on June 20, 2013 to unveil new Galaxy and ATIV devices. The event, named “Samsung Premiere 2013”, is scheduled to be held at 7pm British Standard …

How to delete your Windows 8 synced personal settings from SkyDrive

SkyDrive logoWith the introduction of Windows 8 (and Windows RT), Microsoft enabled the ability for users to synchronise their personal settings – such as desktop themes, lock screen and backgrounds, saved passwords, language settings, IE history and favorites, and app settings …

Exclusive: SkyDrive.com to get built-in Photosynth 3D panorama mode [updated]

SkyDrive logoEarlier this month, Microsoft added an improved “all photos” experience to SkyDrive.com, new document thumbnail layouts, full-resolution photo uploads for global Windows Phones, as well as under-the-hood performance tweaks to speed up uploading times. However, the SkyDrive team is also …

Rumor: More Nokia “EOS” specifications leaked, to be announced on July 9?

Nokia EOSRumors about the Nokia “EOS”, the Windows Phone with a true 41MP PureView camera, had been circulating since January this year. Later on in April, MyNokiaBlog detailed some rumored specifications about the device, although they claim that the …

Bing adds Carousel to News search

Microsoft is betting big on “Satori”, the code name for the Bing technology that attempts to understand relationships between “the people, places and things around us”, and most of the announced improvements to Bing have involved Satori-driven search results, including …

Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin

bing-logoToday, on the Bing Search blog, Bing Director Stefan Weitz posted on some thoughts he and his team had while watching last week’s Google I/O keynote.  Weitz starts off by summing up what he and his team surmised was …

More Xbox One details emerge: TV integration, Second-hand play, more

xbox-one-allMicrosoft wanted to make today’s Xbox One announcements about “big themes”, but of course, with all the attention of the gaming world focused on a tent in Redmond, that isn’t sitting too well, and bloggers and journalists both in Redmond …