We were enamored of your childlike delight. We reveled in the remixes. But now, Double Rainbow Guy, we are less than amused. What’s the sure-fire way to kill a viral video? Festoon it with dollar signs.… [Continue...]
Tampabay.comLenovo to enter gaming with Ebox, an Xbox Kinect cloneSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)It's Microsoft's Xbox 360 with Kinect the Ebox system from Beijing eedoo Technology, a Lenovo spin-off firm. China Daily reports that about 40 en... [Continue...]
For those who fancy a DPad to butcher the virtual villains in place of a second analog stick are in for good news. Microsoft has started shelling out Xbox 360 consoles with a transforming Dpad. Already up and about at the Penny Arcade eXPo in Seattle, ... [Continue...]
Samsung may be one of the big players that Microsoft is pinning its hopes on for Windows Phone 7, but you wouldn't know that from listening to the company at IFA. Speaking to Reuters at the show, Samsung's head of marketing for its mobile division, YH... [Continue...]
Microsoft has updated itself in the OS area with the new Windows Phone 7 for smartphones. The product has reportedly advanced to the RTM stage, which tells us that we can expect it any minute now to be released to Microsoft partners. Windows Phone 7 is... [Continue...]
Should Web developers target Internet Explorer 9 or Silverlight when creating new Web and mobile applications? One Microsoft exec takes a new stab at an answer. [Continue...]
NewsFactor - Finishing touches complete, Microsoft sent its latest Windows Phone 7 operating system to equipment manufacturers Wednesday, paving the way for a round of Windows-based mobile devices to debut in time for the holiday season. [Continue...]
The transition from Yahoo! Search Marketing to Microsoft's adCenter platform creates changes that advertisers should become familiar with, to ensure that the migration goes as smooth as possible, and that their accounts are ready to go when ad serving ... [Continue...]
This month’s version of my Microsoft Codename Tracker includes a number of brand-new entries in the high-end server space — including MFx, Dryad, Nectar, Orleans, Quincy and TidyFS — plus lots, lots more. [Continue...]
Jon Martin at Coregamer: In 2002 Microsoft purchases Rareware for $375 million, a record for a videogame developer and following the announcement of the deal there was disbelief at the switch from Nintendo to Microsoft and excitement at the new titles ... [Continue...]
TopNews Arab EmiratesAnalyst: Xbox Live could get $100 per year Platinum subscription tierGeek.comWhen Microsoft announced earlier in the week that it was bumping the price of an Xbox Live subscription by $10 a year, the response on the Internet was ..... [Continue...]
Yesterday Microsoft’s new mobile platform Windows Phone 7 hit the RTM milestone, and in the official announcement Microsoft was keen to stress how mush tested had gone into this new platform. [Continue...]
With Arc Touch and XBox Play & Charge, Microsoft Makes Mighty Morphin' Power ...Wired (blog)Microsoft has made two new controllers — one for your computer, one for your XBox 360 — that can switch into different shapes depending on ...and mo... [Continue...]
E3 2009 officially opened the floodgates in terms of motion control on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Though Nintendo had found major success already with the company's Wii console, Microsoft and Sony were clearly hungry to get in on the action. [Continue...]
When Kinect arrives in November, Microsoft is planning to launch a new, alternative dashboard, designed to work specifically with the hand-waving, motion-sensing capabilities of the device. With a Kinect hub and gesture controlled navigation, flicking ... [Continue...]
Microsoft truly made a splash last month, after announcing a massive 63 game line-up of killer titles promised to hit its upcoming smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7. Truth be told, it was more of a meteoric tidal-wave-creating blast than a splash, ... [Continue...]
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see… [Continue...]
GamesTM writes: "In an exclusive interview for gamess landmark 100th issue, Tim Schafer speaks openly about the problems he has encountered since leaving LucasArts to found DoubleFine. Microsoft dropped Psychonauts after a corporate reshuffle, and Brü... [Continue...]
David Mclean, Microsoft's regional head of entertainment and devices, today paid tribute to the importance of the Halo series in establishing the Xbox brand. The Xbox manager admitted that the popularity of Xbox was largely attributable to Bungie's ph... [Continue...]
Found under: Windows Phone 7, Microsoft, Gold Master,, Weve seen plenty of Windows Phone 7 handset leaks in the recent days and we can hardly wait for the first WP7 handsets to come out. Today however we have official news regarding the future of Windo... [Continue...]
An anonymous tipster - we have reason to believe it was actually a Microsoft employee or contractor - just casually pointed us to a new promotional video that was published on one of the Redmond software giant's YouTube channels. Unless you've been... [Continue...]
From TechDirt: Both Microsoft and Yahoo failed to jump into keyword search in any serious way until long after Google established it as a giant business. At that point, both tried to play catch-up, with Yahoo buying Overture and Microsoft rebuilding it... [Continue...]
- Yahoo Inc. is about to lose one of its search advertising partners in South Korea as the Internet company prepares to convert to Microsoft Corp.'s technology. [Continue...]
Macworld.com - You ever get that nagging feeling at the back of your mind that you’ve missed something important? Huh. Well, it was probably nothing. I mean, after all, what could be more important than Microsoft shipping Windows Phone 7? Or Ste... [Continue...]
