At Microsoft’s Build conference, All Will Be Revealed (or will it?)

buildIn less than a month, Microsoft is hosting its BuildWindows conference, promising to pull back the curtains on Windows 8.  Up until then, the company has been unusually quiet, even for them, on a number of fronts, and we’ve assumed …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 17th, 2011 at 11:30 am

Skype coming soon to Xbox 360, new dashboard hints at “companion devices”

Back during the E3 expo this year, Microsoft announced a new Xbox 360 dashboard update will be coming soon, which greatly resembles the “Metro” UI on the Window Phone and Windows 8 Start screen. Today, a YouTube video leaked out …

By damaster in Featured News
August 17th, 2011 at 1:02 am

Gamescom: New Xbox LIVE games and features coming to Windows Phone

During the Gamescom conference in Germany this week, Microsoft announced several new features to the Windows Phone Games Hub in its upcoming “Mango” release – one of which we haven’t heard about before. Here’s the list of new features, according …

By damaster in Mobile
August 17th, 2011 at 12:11 am

The one where we try to make sense of patents

burning the shipsSo, Google announced today that it was acquiring Motorola Mobility, and we’ve been reading every blog post we can find since then to try and make sense of it all.  In fact, we were trying to make sense of …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile Opinion
August 16th, 2011 at 12:19 am

Bing Shopping improves: filter from the search box

Bing Shopping, available to US users, has made a number of improvements to the experience recently, according to a blog post on the Bing Search blog.  In addition to expanding the number of available products and adding top brands …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 15th, 2011 at 11:24 am

Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion

Motorola MobilityIn a rather surprising move today, Google and Motorola Mobility jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. Below is an excerpt from the official press …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
August 15th, 2011 at 5:57 am

Official Windows Phone “Mango” Build 7720 leaked

Windows Phone 7.5Microsoft only just announced the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) two weeks ago, pending OEM and carrier testing before it gets to the hands of consumers. However, for Microsoft employees, they had been quite lucky as Microsoft started offering their employees …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
August 12th, 2011 at 7:55 pm

With Mango’s release, will Windows Phone market share move from “very small”?

ifaAccording to Pocket-Lint.com, Microsoft’s latest version of its Windows Phone operating system, code named Mango is set for release on September 1st, just in time for the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin on Sept. 2-7.

Note that …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
August 11th, 2011 at 11:10 am

A recap of all the news and rumors on Nokia Windows Phones

News have been popping out from all over the internet today about Nokia, Windows Phones, and how the two will work together in the near future. First we have news coming from AllThingsD.com who recently had an interview with Chris …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
August 10th, 2011 at 6:24 am

Coming for Skype: “Great experiences” on Windows Phone, and a “boatload” of Facebook releases

skypeIn an interview with Forbes, Skype VP/GM of products and marketing Neil Stevens provided for the first time a bit more detail about how Skype will fit in with Microsoft once the 8.5 billion dollar acquisition deal is approved …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
August 9th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
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