June, 2012

Bing’s big announcement? Another contest

Caught up in the buzz about Microsoft’s “mystery event” yesterday, which ended up being a pretty big deal after all with the unveiling of a new family of “Microsoft Surface” Windows 8 tablets, was a post on the Bing …

Windows 8, Windows Phone, Bing, Xbox Music and Video, SmartGlass, Kinect, Surface: can Microsoft put the pieces together?

surface_02Microsoft has made a number of impressive announcements in the past few months (with hopefully more to come as early as Wednesday, when we’ll begin to hear more about Windows Phone 8), all beginning last October when we caught our …

Microsoft’s Surface: the press release

Here’s the press release from Microsoft on today’s big mystery announcement, which turns out to be a family of new tablets, called “Surface”:

LOS ANGELES — June 18, 2012 — Today at an event in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled Surface: PCs …

Microsoft’s major announcement: “a whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft” the new Surface

microsofttablet0103At a hastily convened press event in Los Angeles, revealed this morning to be at Milk Studios, a fashion photography studio amazingly enough on Vista Street, Microsoft, after keeping tech pundits guessing for days, announced a new Microsoft branded tablet, …

Xbox Surface: Specifications of a new tablet device leaked

Xbox Surface SpecsOnly a few days after the alleged documentations of the Xbox 720, Kinect v2, and Kinect Glasses were leaked, today another document detailing the specifications for a tablet device named Xbox Surface has leaked. According to detailed obtained by Shifted2u

Official Windows Phone website publishes “Tango” update features

Windows Phone TangoWith only 3 days to go until Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft is also almost ready to push out their “Tango” update for the Windows Phone OS, or better known as the CR3 (Commercial Release 3) with build 7.10.8773.98. On the …

Xbox 720 document leaks: faked or old, it’s still very interesting (and now gone)!

the road aheadLots of speculation about what appears to be a leaked Xbox 720 slide deck that hit the web yesterday, apparently from August or September of 2010, laying out a roadmap for Xbox through 2015, and listing a number of new …

Skype for Mac and Linux updated; new Conversations Ads launched

Skype for Mac and Linux updated; new Conversations Ads launchedThis week, Skype announced the availability of both new Skype for Mac and Linux client, and the team also launched the Conversation Ads in Skype for Windows.

Skype for Mac 5.8

Today, Skype for Mac is updated to version 5.8 …

Windows 8 Mail app to get IMAP support

Mail appPerhaps one of the most criticized aspect of the new Metro-style Mail app in Windows 8 Release Preview is it’s lack of support for IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), a protocol still popular amongst several email providers. In the latest …

Bing partners with Qwiki and Yelp to bring a better search experience

Bing, Yelp and QwikiTwo pieces of news related to Bing was announced recently, both aiming to bring you a better search experience. The first announcement relates to Bing partnering with Qwiki to bring an interactive and dynamic experience to your search results. For …