8 Million AT&T Windows Phone 7 Handsets To Be Delivered
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 | 0 CommentsOk, this is one rumor that you have to take with a pinch of salt. Slashgear has quoted an AT&T insider as having revealed that the carrier has ordered close to 8 million Windows Phone 7 devices ahead of the holiday shopping season this year. Now this is why it sounds so unbelievable. One, the [...]
Microsoft Employees To Build Windows Phone 7 Apps In Return For Free Phone
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 | 0 CommentsMicrosoft had announced earlier in the week that the company would be offering free Windows Phone 7 handsets to all of their employees across the world. Well, the obvious take-away from this announcement was that the proliferation of these handsets in the wild will get the word-of-mouth marketing going that could eventually reap better rewards [...]
Microsoft XBox 360 4GB Price Officially Announced
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 | 3 CommentsThere were rumors last week that had suggested that Microsoft could soon be launching a 4GB version of their popular gaming console. The company has now confirmed these rumors and has revealed that this shall be a replacement to the Microsoft XBox 360 Arcade. As announced, the new XBox 360 4G version will launch on [...]
Buy Movie Tickets Online On XBox 360 – For Xbox Live Subscribers
Posted on July 21st, 2010 | 0 CommentsIf you are a Microsoft XBox 360 Live subscriber, you may now not only download and watch movies directly from your XBox, but may also make ticket bookings at a cinema near you. How? Microsoft has partnered with online movie ticketing website, MovieTickets.com to allow users to purchase movie tickets while looking for them via [...]
Microsoft Bing Android App Launching Soon?
Posted on July 14th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThe World’s biggest decision engine could be coming to Android soon. Microsoft is rumored to be working on Android app for their year old Bing search engine. Of course, Android smartphone users already have access to the Bing website from their mobile internet browsers. But considering that an app-based product will make searching via mobile [...]
Age Of Average Workplace Computer : 4.4 Years & Running Windows XP
Posted on July 13th, 2010 | 0 CommentsIt’s the proverbial half-glass-full scenario. At the recent Microsoft Worldwide partners conference, Tammi Reller, the CVP of Microsoft Windows has revealed that nearly 74% of the present day workplace PCs run Windows XP – the nearly decade old Windows Operating System which has since then been replaced by Windows Vista and now Windows 7. It’s [...]
Blue Bee Windows Mobile 7 Concept Phone Design Features
Posted on July 12th, 2010 | 1 CommentMicrosoft lovers – rue not about the death of kin. A Chinese UI designer named Kingyo has released pictures of a concept phone designed for the Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 platform that Microsoft could take inspiration from. The futuristic-looking concept phone named Blue Bee is specially integrated with social networking features and exploits the front-side [...]
XBox Live – How Much Money Did Microsoft Make?
Posted on July 8th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMicrosoft may have just gotten to something here with XBox Live. The company has revealed that revenues from Microsoft’s digital media delivery service may have topped the $1 billion mark for the first time last year. According to educated estimates, the number is more likely to hover around $1.2 billion. Redmond has revealed that more [...]
Microsoft Lays Claim To iPad’s Page Curling Feature
Posted on July 8th, 2010 | 23 CommentsThe Courier may be dead, but we are still getting to see the innovations built by Microsoft back when development on Courier was still in its prime. A patent application filed by Microsoft back in January 2009 describes the page curl feature – exactly the way it is implemented on the iPad’s iBooks app. In [...]
Microsoft Windows XP Security Vulnerability Exploited By Malicious Code
Posted on July 7th, 2010 | 0 CommentsA new security flaw has been detected on the older versions of Microsoft Windows Operating system – namely Windows XP and Windows 2000. The vulnerability will allow hackers to exploit the system and subsequently run malicious code. In a statement released to the media, Microsoft Group Manager Jerry Bryant said that his team was presently [...]