Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Posted on January 6, 2011, 11:18 am, by Hamza Zafar.
In the ongoing CES 11. Microsoft has announced that Avatar Kinect would soon be available for the Xbox 360 this season, maybe this spring. Xbox Live Gold members might get their hands on it first than others.
Posted on November 22, 2010, 5:15 pm, by Danish Haroon.
Mobile phones powered by Microsoft’s latest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 will be available from one of the United States’ more popular cellular carriers, Verizon. According to the official Windows Phone 7 twitter feed, Windows Phone 7 powered mobile phones will be available with Verizon as soon as this year’s holiday season.
Posted on November 19, 2010, 4:51 am, by Danish Haroon.
The Dell Inspiron Duo’s Pricing and Availability details has been announced. Dell has released pricing and availability information for it’s Dell Duo tablet. The Dell Duo is a tablet-netbook hybrid wherein it can be a regular netbook with the usual keyboard and screen configuration. Flip the screen and the Duo becomes a touchscreen tablet.
Posted on November 16, 2010, 5:54 pm, by Danish Haroon.
AT&T Officially Launches the Galaxy Tab. AT&T today gave it’s final pricing on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The Galaxy Tab will be priced at $649 and will be available on November 21. This is very interesting news since AT&T has given the cheapest price for the Galaxy Tab, beating it’s competitors, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon.
Posted on November 15, 2010, 9:54 am, by Danish Haroon.
Still haven’t got enough of those Tablet PC news? This time we have news on the HP Slate, HP’s competitor aimed directly at the Apple iPad. HP’s initial announcement was that the demand for it’s Slate has exceeded the company’s expectations. New leaked information says that HP actually only planned to build 5,000 units and [...]
Posted on November 15, 2010, 8:36 am, by Danish Haroon.
As if the world of tablet PCs is not crowded enough, Viewsonic has entered the tablet PC foray with it’s own Viewpad 7. According to Viewsonic’s American team, the company will begin it’s US Tablet invasion with the introduction of the Viewpad 7 in November. The Viewpad will run on the Snapdragon processor, on top [...]
Posted on November 11, 2010, 11:55 am, by Hamza Zafar.
A New York based company Adafruit announced a price of USD 2000 for anyone who comes up with an open source driver for Microsoft Kinect that could enable it for the PC use along with its exclusive Xbox 360 support. It was also anticipated a while ago that this technology might soon be developed further [...]
Posted on November 5, 2010, 11:19 am, by Danish Haroon.
The latest accessory for the XBox 360 is now available. The Kinect, which will enable motion detection on the XBox 360, opens up new concepts on how we look at the Xbox games today.
Posted on October 12, 2010, 9:33 pm, by Hamza Zafar.
The new windows phone 7 ad is about how much time this new product of Microsoft can help you save. Normally, people spend a lot of time on their cellphones, ignoring their surroundings or responsibilities because they are stuck in doing something important on their mobile phone and it takes ages to be completed (not [...]
Posted on September 27, 2010, 2:10 pm, by Hamza Zafar.
Microsoft has aired two new commercials for their upcoming windows 7 mobile phones. You can checkout the commercials below and leave your feedback if you like.
Posted on September 22, 2010, 4:24 pm, by Hamza Zafar.
If you are a Microsoft Volume License Customer, then you can download the new Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac from their website. It has recently appeared there and users are already downloading their copies of Microsoft Office 2011.
Posted on September 1, 2010, 4:44 pm, by Talha Arif.
In a bid to cash in on some of the popularity of casual games sparked off by the Apple appstore and the plethora iOS devices, Microsoft has revealed plans to support live multiplayer gaming between its XBOX console and a Windows Phone 7 device. Earlier this month Microsoft lifted the lid on its biggest mobile [...]
Posted on August 24, 2010, 6:41 pm, by Hamza Zafar.
Yup, thats right. Out of all the mobile manufacturers, its again the HTC that would now also manufacture mobile phones for Windows Phone 7. Rumor had it that HTC Gold or HTC HD3 might have been the one chosen for Windows Phone 7 but now its HTC Schubert.
Posted on August 24, 2010, 5:46 pm, by Talha Arif.
Chalk up another one to join the tablet frenzy sparked off by the runaway success of the iPad. Tablets are going to be big this year. At least, so hopes Best Buy, which will be making slates a focus this holiday season, according to an interview with Forbes. We don’t know all that much about [...]
Posted on August 18, 2010, 1:45 am, by Hamza Zafar.
Great news for Windows Phone 7 fans. Microsoft has announced a list of top 50 games that would initially be released in the marketplace with the launch of their product. As Windows phone 7 supports integration with Xbox LIVE, its getting a massive attraction from gamers of all sorts.
Posted on August 13, 2010, 2:18 am, by Talha Arif.
We have heard rumors of HP’s entry into the tablet market, with a slew of devices, covering Microsoft, Android and its own WebOS platforms, in a bid to unseat the iPad from the tablet king crown. But to date, the release schedules have been rather sketchy.
Posted on August 11, 2010, 12:15 am, by Talha Arif.
In a much belated attempt to downplay the Justin Long and John Hodgeman series of Apple ads that compared the Mac and the PC (and the purported differences between the two platforms), Microsoft has now replied to the many comparisons in its own, rather subdued manner, by launching a site titled PC-v-Mac.
Posted on August 4, 2010, 11:40 am, by Talha Arif.
No doubt miffed that gadget blogs were inexplicably excited about Apple’s Magic Trackpad last month, the folks at Microsoft Hardware have posted a couple of tweets with teaser images revealing a mysterious upcoming product. Assembled together, the two images look like so:
Posted on August 1, 2010, 3:05 am, by Talha Arif.
Those Internet Explorer 9 platform previews are all well and good, but they’re hardly usable for day-to-day browsing—you know, what with the missing user interface and all. ZDNet now says the first IE9 beta isn’t too far off; Microsoft COO Kevin Turner reportedly revealed a September release schedule for it during a keynote speech yesterday.
Posted on July 26, 2010, 1:46 am, by Talha Arif.
When HP bought Palm and revealed plans for webOS-powered slate devices this spring, word on the web was that HP had quietly euthanized its Windows 7 slate. Evidence now points to the contrary. Kind of. Engadget has been told by HP itself that the Windows-powered slate is “still very much in the works.” Confirmation came [...]