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Windows 8 Metro Apps by Microsoft

Posted by David on September 17, 2011 · 0 Comment

Microsoft Windows Metro’s user interface borrows personalities from the Windows Phone platform A new video has been released showcasing a handful of currently unavailable applications that make use of Microsoft’s Metro user interface Windows 8 borrowed from the Windows Phone platform. It shows several apps including Mail, Calendar, People, Messaging and Photos, which features [...]

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Windows 8 is detailed and developers have at it (video)

Posted by David on September 14, 2011 · 0 Comment

Windows 8 will be optimized to work simultaneously with a Windows tablet and a PC Microsoft’s Windows 8 details have just surfaced, along with a developers download of the OS. The new operating system was explained in a 3-hour keynote speech, detailing the future of where Microsoft is headed with its Windows super brand. Initial reactions of the latest OS by panels have been [...]

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Xbox 360 Kinect now works with Netflix (video)

Posted by David on April 15, 2011 · 0 Comment

Today, Microsoft issued an update to the Xbox 360 that makes the Kinect compatible with Netflix streaming. Gamers will be able to use hand gestures to shuffle through their queue. Addionally, you can use voice commands to activate playback controls, such as pause, play and fast forward. Netflix has 20 million subscribers in the US and Canada. Xbox Live boasts 30 million members. This equates [...]

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Windows Phone browser beats the ‘heavys’ (video)

Posted by David on April 15, 2011 · 0 Comment

Microsoft held its annual MIX conference in Las Vegas, and Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone director showed all Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 mobile browser and how well it can render HTML5 websites. He pitted his demo and his browser against iPhone 4 and Google Nexus S. Belfiore was so confident in the new browser that he gave the iPhone 4 a head start. His Windows phone topped out at 20 [...]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation for Xbox 360 landing on May 3rd (video)

Posted by David on April 11, 2011 · 0 Comment

On Monday, gaming site Major Nelson wrote that Activision has revealed it will launch the next expansion pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops for Xbox 360 on May 3rd. Dubbed “Escalation,” the new downloadable content, for Xbox LIVE subscribers, will sport five new maps, including four that can be played in multiplayer mode. New maps include “Hotel,” where you’ll battle on the roof of a Cuban [...]

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Is HP selling their PC business?

Posted by David on March 11, 2011 · 0 Comment

HP, in a somewhat unsubstantiated rumor, might be considering selling its PC business. Samsung is the front-running heir to the business. All this coming from a couple of Asian publication sources, the rumors apparently have been circulating in Taiwan since last year. An earlier report indicated that Lenovo was a possible buyer and even suggested Foxconn might have shown interest in the business. HP [...]

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Microsoft ‘Ventura’ to replace ‘Zune’

Posted by David on March 10, 2011 · 0 Comment

Microsoft is readying a new music and video service, according to reports. The software giant has started advertising for job opportunities in its Entertainment and Devices (E&D) unit. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley spotted a recent job posting by Microsoft that references codename “Ventura”: The Ventura Media Services team is looking for a highly motivated Software Development Engineer to help drive [...]

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ViewPad 10 from ViewSonic now available (video)

Posted by David on March 8, 2011 · 0 Comment

ViewSonic has announced the availability of its unique dual-boot tablet, the ViewPad 10. The ViewPad 10 is an Atom-based tablet that features a 10-inch 1024 x 600-pixel touchscreen display, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor, 2GB of memory, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. Most notably, however, it features a dual-boot configuration that [...]

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Microsoft will be late to party again with 2012 tablet

Posted by David on March 5, 2011 · 0 Comment

You’d think as ginormous and innovative as a company like Microsoft has been in the past, that they would be a little quicker on the draw with the latest tablet and smartphone devices, and offering a little bigger competitive fight than what we’ve seen in the last few years. But here we go again. After entering the smartphone and mobile OS business recently with Windows Phone 7 and [...]

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Windows Phones coming to Verizon in March

Posted by David on February 27, 2011 · 0 Comment

Verizon Wireless will begin to sell Windows Phone handsets towards the end of March. The HTC 7 Trophy, the same CDMA WP7 handset to be carried by Sprint, could be announced as early as February 28th. The device will have Microsoft’s “NoDo” update (also known as the copy and paste update) and should retail for $199.99 with a signed two-year contract. Anyone waiting for this phone?

Filed in: Cell Phones, Miscellaneous Gadgets

Kinect and Windows Phone 7 working together! (video)

Posted by David on February 15, 2011 · 0 Comment

On Monday, Microsoft announced a Windows Phone 7 feature that “connects” Kinect with Microsoft’s operating system, Windows Phone 7. Their demonstration shows a hypothetical threesome marriage between Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and the Kinect motion-based controller. The results are awesome . Watch the video below and let us know what this feature would mean to [...]

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Amazon Kindle app for Windows Phone 7

Posted by David on January 6, 2011 · 0 Comment

Amazon Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 —Amazon’s Kindle application for the Windows Phone 7 platform is here, and it offers exactly what you think it might — the ability to purchase and read over 750,000 eBooks in Amazon’s library, free access to preview the first chapter of each, Amazon’s Whispersync service to keep data in sync across devices, personalized recommendations and more. The [...]

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SurfCube 3D Browser for Windows Phone 7

Posted by David on December 31, 2010 · 0 Comment

SurfCube 3D Browser for Windows Phone 7 —SurfCube Browser by Kinabalu Innovation Limited is a brand new 3D browser for Windows Phone 7 devices. The interface of this Web browser features a 3D cube effect. The browsing itself, however, is still done in a standard 2D interface. SurfCube sports a nifty UI that positions various browser functions on five sides of a virtual cube. SurfCube Browser [...]

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Windows compatible with AirPlay via AirMediaPlayer

Posted by David on December 23, 2010 · 0 Comment

Windows compatible with AirPlay via AirMediaPlayer —A simple solution is bringing Apple’s AirPlay streaming media functionality to Windows. Developer Apostolos Georgiadis has assembled a neat little Windows application called AirMediaPlayer that allows Apple’s iOS devices to stream music and video via AirPlay to a Windows PC. AirMediaPlayer is free to use and is compatible with any AirPlay-equipped [...]

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