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

By damaster in News
June 18th, 2012 at 6:16 am

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 …

By damaster in Mobile
June 18th, 2012 at 5:44 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 16th, 2012 at 2:09 pm

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 …

By Picturepan2 in News
June 15th, 2012 at 11:12 am

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 …

By damaster in News
June 15th, 2012 at 8:48 am

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 …

By damaster in Bing
June 15th, 2012 at 7:32 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 14th, 2012 at 11:07 pm

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 …

By Picturepan2 in Mobile
June 14th, 2012 at 9:48 pm

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 …

By damaster in Mobile
June 14th, 2012 at 5:11 am

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 …

By damaster in News
June 14th, 2012 at 4:22 am