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Huawei on Microsoft’s Patent Licensing Radar

November 8, 2011 0 Tassavur

After Huawei adopted Google’s Android its market share has been increasing slowly but steadily. And guess what? Even Huawei is added to the list of prominent manufacturers on the Android based platform which includes the like of Samsung and HTC to…

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Camera No Longer Mandatory Requirement on Windows Phone 7

November 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

When they announced Windows Phone 7 initially, Microsoft had laid down quite a few mandatory requirements for a phone to be “compatible” with the OS. These included at least a 480*800 pixel display, a capacitive touch screen, the thee hardware…

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Nokia Announces the Lumia 800, Lumia 710 Windows Phone 7 Handsets

October 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

At the much awaited Nokia World which kicked off yesterday Nokia announced two new Windows Phone powered handsets – as expected. The devices were claimed to be the “first real Windows Phone” handsets by Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO.

Leaked / Spyshots

Windows Phone 7 Mango Laden Nokia 710 Coming Soon?

October 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

While it is almost certain that Nokia would be unveiling its first Windows Phone based devices at the upcoming Nokia World event next week, here comes a new hitherto unheard of model which could make its entry into Nokia’s WP7…

Android

iPhone 4S a Missed Opportunity: Microsoft

October 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

In a recent interview by Andy Lees, President of the Windows Phone division at Microsoft has opined that he sees the iPhone 4S as a missed opportunity by Apple. No he didn’t actually say it, he just replied in affirmative…

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Zombie Microsoft Zune is Back From the Dead!

October 7, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well this one might come as a surprise to a lot of you; but apparently Zune Support team has categorically denied that Microsoft is discontinuing the hardware via a tweet. It also claimed that no official release was ever issued…

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Microsoft Accidentally Reveals Names of Upcoming Windows Phone 7 Handsets

October 3, 2011 0 Rahul S

In what seems to be an inadvertent error by the folks looking after the Microsoft Canada website, the company has revealed the names of forthcoming Windows Phone powered handsets from various manufacturers on this page.

Android

Patent Settlement: Samsung To Pay Microsoft For Every Android Sold!

September 28, 2011 0 Annkur

One of the largest makers of Android phones and tablets, Samsung has entered into a patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, thus paying up a royalty for every Android device it sells. The cross licensing allows Samsung to continue doing business…

eReaders & Tablets

Windows 8 Start Menu, Taskbar (Design) Leaked

September 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While we are gearing up for the Microsoft Build event scheduled to happen later this week at California where juicier details pertaining to Microsoft’s Windows 8 are expected to be announced, eagle eyed folks over at Toms Hardware has posted…

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Windows 8 to Support Windows Phone 7 Apps?

September 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

Now, this sure is a fascinating bit of news we have here. If we are to believe  nVidia’s CEO Jen Hsun Huang, Microsoft’s soon to be released Windows 8 Operating System is likely to feature native support for running Windows…

Internet

Caught In The Act: Microsoft Sued For Collecting Location Data Without Consent

September 2, 2011 0 Rahul S

The head honchos at Apple might be surely jeering at this one. Microsoft, which had, not long ago claimed the moral high ground claiming to not collect any location data without explicit user consent has been ironically sued by one…

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Fujitsu Launches First Windows Phone 7.5 Mobile in Japan

August 25, 2011 0 Tassavur

Windows Mango phone has officially made its entry in Japan with Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications launching the Windows Phone IS12T which was announced last month. Fujitsu is the first company to launch Windows Phone 7.5 in Japan which would be…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

Microsoft Smartly Poaching webOS Devs Over To Windows Platform

August 22, 2011 0 Tassavur

It was only last Friday that Mr. Brandon Watson of Windows Phone had reached out to webOS developers via a tweet, stating that Microsoft will be more than happy to have them on board and work with them.

Android

Microsoft is the Real Winner of the Google Motorola Deal!

August 19, 2011 0 Tassavur

Google is about to complete its $12.50 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the handset manufacturing arm of Motorola. For now the acquisition is being projected as a move to fend off the patent wars and interestingly being appreciated by manufacturers…

Apple

Will Apple Be The Largest PC Manufacturer?

August 9, 2011 0 Tassavur

With the iPad tablet’s entry into the computers market, Apple’s share in the PC market just spiraled upwards. Now with the new Mac OS X Lion priced at just $30 and the Thunderbolt equipped Macbook Air, Apple would only increase…

Future WIP

Microsoft Might Drop Windows By 2015 (Rumor)

July 14, 2011 0 Tassavur

Shocking! Isn’t it? But this rumor by This is my next might just be true as Andy Lees said that Redmond would have a single ecosystem for PC, tablet, smartphones and even TV during Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference.

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First Impression: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Update (Beta)

July 9, 2011 3 Annkur

With some help, I managed to get a beta build of Windows Phone 7 Mango update running on my LG Optimus 7. Mango is said to be a significant update and the next wave of Windows Phones are expected to…

Future WIP

Microsoft Outs Kinect For Windows SDK

June 17, 2011 1 Annkur

Kinect for Xbox is one of our favorite technologies in recent times and with over 10 million units sold, our excitement about how this technology would shape our future has only increased. Today Microsoft has taken the Kinect’s magic a step further by announcing…

eReaders & Tablets

Will Microsoft Build Its Own Tablet? (Rumor)

June 8, 2011 0 Annkur

Microsoft has given multiple hints on Windows 8 this year. Earlier at CES they announced that Windows 8 would work on both x86 and ARM architectures and recently they demoed the touch oriented UI of Win8. While the debate on…

Internet

Microsoft To Launch Office 365 in June: Steve Ballmer

June 5, 2011 0 Rahul S

Microsoft’s could based service Office 365 was earlier thought to be coming “later this year” if we were to believe the higher ups at Microsoft. What we all however didn’t know was when actually the launch would take place. However,…

Featured

Windows 8 Demoed At D9, Impressive, Far From Flawed

June 2, 2011 2 Annkur

Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green gave an early preview of Windows 8 at the D9 conference. Win 8 was labeled by Ballmer as their riskiest bet in Oct 2010. While I had played down the ‘riskiest’ remark last year, it…

Featured

Kinect Controls For Powerpoint (PC) Demoed At Ballmer’s Lecture [Video]

May 26, 2011 0 Annkur

You sure have seen the kind of crazy concepts presented to define the future of our interaction with computer systems, but something that looks future tech and yet available for us today is the Kinect for Xbox 360. In the…

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Why Microsoft Buying Nokia Makes Sense, And Why It Doesn’t!

May 17, 2011 0 Annkur

Now before I even begin, we know that this is a rumor and it sure sounds like a wild one. Just months after announcing a deal where Nokia would use Windows Phone as its primary smartphone OS, it looks odd…

Market Watch

VOIP: Microsoft acquires Skype for more than $7 billion? Update: Official

May 10, 2011 0 Jassi

This is undoubtedly most aggressive move by Microsoft in the world of communication, information and entertainment. Microsoft is eyeing a deal to acquire Skype for more than $7 billion. As Facebook and Google were rumored to be negotiating to acquire…

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Windows Phone 7 to get notifications via an App

April 17, 2011 0 c0rex

Facebook has updated its official Windows Phone 7 with no visible features. Apparently, the only visible change was that the Refresh setting has been replaced with Cache Expiration which is set at 10 minutes. The Facebook App for WP7 has…

Apps

Kinect Inspired Motion Gaming / Interaction On Smartphones?

March 24, 2011 0 Annkur

Motion gaming is catching up in the gaming world and Microsoft took the technology to a new level with the Kinect for Xbox 360 last year. While speculations of motion sensing coming to Windows PCs are rife, we have a…

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Microsoft Sells 10 Million Kinect Sensors; Creates Guinness Record

March 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

2010 saw the advent of some really cool gadgets that not only looked good, but also sold like hot cakes. The most popular amongst these were from Apple who bought the iPhone 4 and the iPad – both of which…

Internet

Microsoft Wants To Kill Internet Explorer 6

March 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

This might sound weird but the fact is, Microsoft has set up a website http://ie6countdown.com as part of a campaign to urge people to stop using its aged, 10 year old browser, Internet Explorer 6. With Microsoft having moved on…

Featured

Why The Next Google / Facebook Isn’t From India

March 4, 2011 4 Annkur

This ain’t new talk and I got deflected back to this topic when discussing Indian cos making cellphones in a Facebook group. For long entrepreneurs in India have been motivated with talks of making the next Google, Facebook or Microsoft.…

Android

Did Stephen Elop Force Nokia-WP7 Deal?

February 11, 2011 2 Annkur

Nokia is marrying Microsoft and the world isn’t happy. A huge backlash is expected over the blogosphere, editorials over editorials telling whats wrong with Nokia would be the flavor for days to come and we are still to digest what…

Featured

Nokia adds to platform confusion, adopts Microsofts Windows Phone 7

February 11, 2011 3 Annkur

Nokia is all set to go the Windows Phone 7 route with rumors of a partnership with Microsoft turning out to be true. Not much details are available at the moment but the trend is clear. Last year at MWC…

Apple

OneNote arrives in App Store, will MS Office follow?

January 18, 2011 0 Anupama

Microsoft has released a version of its note-making application, OneNote, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The app which is part of the MS Office suite on computers and is being used by over 80 million people in the…

CES

Kinect coming to Windows PC – Ballmer

January 7, 2011 0 Annkur

Now this is a big one.  We have asked time and again, and we haven’t got a clear reply, but it seems that BBC has managed to get the confirmation from Steve Ballmer himself. While,there is no confirmation if its…

CES

New Microsoft Windows 7 PCs / Tablet & Surface Demoed At CES

January 6, 2011 0 Luke Abell

Microsoft showed of some incredible hardware at its CES 2011 keynote. While,the announcement of the next release of Windows running on SoC (ARM and X86) would prompt the industry pundits to take out a magnifying glass (well that already happened…

First look

Fable 3: Limited Collector’s Edition, A Brief Review

January 6, 2011 0 Nimish

All right, we know what you are going to say – “Why would anyone go all the way and unbox a videogame when all the thrill is actually in slipping it into a console and playing it?” Well, our rationale…

CES

NVIDIA Goes Official With ARM CPU Plans, Project Denver

January 6, 2011 0 Annkur

With Google, Apple and Microsoft all throwing their weight behind ARM architecture, Nvidia has taken the opportunity at CES 2011 to reveal its Project Denver. NVIDIA President Jen-Hsun Huang claimed during his keynote that more ARM processors will ship in…

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Live From Microsoft / Steve Ballmer’s Keynote at CES 2011

January 5, 2011 0 Luke Abell

We are in line to get started with the Microsoft Keynote at CES 2011. Steve Ballmer is expected to be on stage and apart from some rumors, we have no official confirmation on what we might hear. Our bet would…

HTC

HTC fires second Windows Phone 7 salvo, launches Mozart in India

January 3, 2011 0 Nimish

After a period of relative inactivity, HTC seems to have stepped into device release overdrive. Within days of the launch of the HTC HD7 in India, the first Windows Phone 7 device to be seen in the country (notwithstanding no…

Entertainment

Record-breaker! Kinect outsells Move, iPad in first month

November 30, 2010 2 Nimish

We have the first official sales figures of Microsoft’s Kinect game controlling system for the Xbox 360 and honestly, we must confess to being very impressed indeed. According to a release we have got from the big M, Kinect sold…

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Gizmo Podcast #8 – Microsoft Kinect and the new Apple MacBook Airs (2010)

November 29, 2010 1 Annkur

We had the opportunity to spend some more time with the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox and the new ultra sleek Macbooks from Apple. Both the new Apple MacBook Airs (late 2010) and the Microsoft Kinect have just gone on sale…