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Microsoft announces Explorer Touch Mouse
The Explorer Touch Mouse features a touch strip that allows users to swipe horizontally or vertically and have that translated into a on-screen navigation. In addition to the touch strip, there’s a wheel featuring three scroll speeds – slow speed for precise movements, medium speed to move forward a page or two, or hyperfast [...]
Sony Apologizes For Network Breach, Aims To Resume Service
Sony Corp. apologized for the breach of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, and said it aims to resume the online gaming center by the end of the month after upgrading security. Partial resumption of the services will likely occur in a week, Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s executive deputy president in charge of consumer products and [...]
Reports: Nokia gung ho for Windows Phone
It looks increasingly likely that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will get a starring role in Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop’s attempt to turn around the ailing phone giant. Reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal indicate Nokia’s turnaround plan will involve phones using Microsoft’s new and still immature mobile operating system. Elop plans to [...]
Prophecy
Here are my views of important events in the next 18 months… Apple to buy Facebook! Within 6 months. This is a natural – both companies approach their customers from a similar perspective, and gives Apple another closed platform to leverage. Google & Microsoft merge in 2012 to counter the closed Apple/Facebook Universe, the new [...]
EDITORIAL
Ok, let’s stop all the crap, shall we? What I’m talking about is the instability of the Android Platform. Those of us who bought one of these wonders expected certain things that a stable, industry standard operating system would bring. Namely: OS Upgradeability & Reliable Service Releases. But so far, it has been the opposite. [...]
Microsoft Doles Out Windows Phone 7 Smartphones to Interns
It looks like Microsoft is making a huge push behind its upcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system release, which is due to hit devices and launch by this coming holiday season. After the company has sent out a large number of test hardware to developers and promised that employees worldwide will be getting the [...]
Microsoft outs Windows Embedded Handheld platform, Motorola ES400 is the first to get it
Throughout the course of Windows Phone 7′s paced, deliberate unveiling this year, Microsoft has been very clear on the fact that it doesn’t intend for Windows Mobile — the legacy platform we know today — to disappear, arguing that it’s got several years of life left in it for certain verticals. We’re starting to see [...]
Rumoured Microsoft Project Pink phone “Turtle” confirmed at FCC
Sharp has revealed pictures of the rumoured Microsoft “Project Pink” device ‘Turtle’ in an FCC filing this week. Sharp manufactured the original Sidekick for Danger, a company Microsoft acquired in February 2008. Sharp’s filing with the FCC, spotted by the folks at Zune Boards, is listed as a “CDMA Slide Phone with WLAN & BT.” [...]