Nokia Maps, and the whole Nokia Location platform, including Nokia Drive, coming to all of Windows Phone 8 (not just Nokia)

GlobeIn a blog post today, Nokia expounded a bit on the announcement this morning that Nokia Maps will be coming to Windows Phone 8, announcing that Nokia Drive (the Nokia Location Services powered turn by turn navigation system) …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
June 20th, 2012 at 12:44 pm

Windows Phone Summit: the quick summary

WP SummitToday in a 2 hour keynote, Microsoft spoke for the first time about Windows Phone 8, the next generation of Windows Phone Operating system, and revealed a number of platform improvements coming to new devices “this fall”.  While no specific …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
June 20th, 2012 at 11:50 am

Windows Phone 7.8 (not 8) coming to some existing phones

One of the big questions for current Windows Phone questions has been whether or not current Windows Phones will be able to gain the benefits of the new operating system.  The Verge came up with a definitive answer today, …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
June 20th, 2012 at 10:25 am

Windows Phone Summit set to begin

WP SummitIn early May, Microsoft sent out invitations to a “Developer Summit”, to be held in San Francisco on June 20-21.  Since then, the name has been changed to the “Windows Phone Summit”, and Microsoft is widely expected to begin talking …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
June 20th, 2012 at 8:57 am

SkyDrive, and Windows Store, gets a new logo?

During yesterday’s press event for Microsoft Surface, for those who watched the keynote might’ve noticed something – that some of the icons on Windows 8’s Metro style Start menu looked somewhat different from what you’ve been seeing in the …

By damaster in News
June 20th, 2012 at 4:17 am

Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE3 update now compulsory for all (except XP users)

Windows Live EssentialsMicrosoft released the Windows Live Essentials 2011 QFE3 update back in March this year, bumping the version number up to 15.4.3555.0308. The update fixes several critical bugs and errors for various programs in the suite (for more details, click here…

By damaster in News
June 20th, 2012 at 3:53 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 19th, 2012 at 10:47 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
June 18th, 2012 at 10:45 pm

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 18th, 2012 at 4:53 pm

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, …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
June 18th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
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