June, 2012

A mysterious Monday announcement and more Microsoft rumors: is there anything we DO know?

rumoursOne of Ray Ozzie’s favorite sayings is “we don’t know what we don’t know”.  For Microsoft followers, there’s a lot we don’t know right now, and the plot just keeps thickening.  The latest rumors focus around Microsoft’s apparent acquisition of …

Windows Phone Maps app traffic powered by Nokia now

Windows Phone Maps app traffic powered by Nokia now

A post on the Windows Phone blog today gives us a quick introduction to the updated maps traffic feature on Windows Phone. Thanks to the partnership between Bing and Nokia, which announced last month, now the Maps app has …

Windows Phone 8 running on Nokia VERTU prototype device shown, with integrated SkyDrive cloud storage

VertuFollowing yesterday’s leak of the first Windows Phone 8 screenshots, today a user on Chinese forum Ngacn.cc managed to leak several photos of an alleged Vertu device running Windows Phone 8. For those who doesn’t know, Vertu was a …

Microsoft confirms Sina Weibo connection coming to Windows 8 and Windows Phone

Sina WeiboOver on the Building Windows 8 blog, Jeff Kunins, Group Program Manager on the Windows Live, posted details about the People app on Windows 8. If you had been using the People app on Windows 8, or have a …

First screenshots of Windows Phone 8 leaked

Windows PhoneWith just one week to go until the Windows Phone Summit, to be held on June 20 in San Francisco, more details about the upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS, codenamed “Apollo”, are starting to leak out. Yesterday, we reported …

More Windows Phone 8 details leaked – Nokia 3D maps, Skype, Wallet, and more

Windows PhoneToday Apple announced their upcoming upgrade to their mobile operating system, iOS 6, during their annual WWDC event. With it comes several new features including 3D maps, turn by turn navigation, Facebook integration, Passbook, iCloud tabs, and more. However, whilst …

Exclusive: A sneak peek at Office Web Apps Preview, coming with Office 2013 (and a new logo!)

Office 2013 LogoMicrosoft first announced details of its upcoming Office productivity suite, codenamed “Office 15”, back in January this year when the software suite reached its Technical Preview stage. Since then, various screenshots and details about “Office 15” has been revealed, including …

Exclusive: Even better screenshots of Metro-style Hotmail, or “Newmail”, leaked (now in English!)

HotmailYesterday we gave you a sneak peek of the new Hotmail, featuring an entirely new interface that is said to be “fast, fluid, and intuitive”, and of course the design has been changed to the all new Metro-style, consistent with …

More screenshots of Metro-style Hotmail leaked

So yesterday we just posted the first screenshot leak of the Metro-style Hotmail, today more screenshots from the service has leaked. German website WinFuture.de managed to get hold of several clear screenshots of the new Metro-style Hotmail, clearly showing how …

Bing adds Encyclopedia Britannica answers

In a blog post on the Bing Search blog today, Bing announced a new partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica to bring Britannica Online answers directly within the Bing search results:

The answer provides a quick overview of the subject, a thumbnail