Tag Archives : Microsoft

Image via Wikipedia Samsung’s entry into the Windows Phone 7, the Omnia 7, is a brilliant piece of tech. The first thing you’ll notice before you even pick up this phone is the size of the screen – it’s huge! At 4inches, the Super AMOLED Plus screen glows with pride. The handset itself isn’t amazing in design, it’s pretty plain and sans-frills, but I think that’s [...]

Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited to a Ubisoft Games Day in London, where we were given the chance to try out Your Shape. The idea behind Your Shape is that you can get fit while having fun, the mantra is “Fitness Evolved” and after playing the game for a couple of hours, I can’t think of a more fitting phrase for this game. There are three main game times in Your [...]

Image by Axel Bührmann via Flickr Hey if Stephen Fry comes out to say that the lastest phone OS from Microsoft, the aptly named Windows 7 Smart Phone as ‘joy to play with’, then we’re listening. Remember Stephen Fry persuaded undoubtably some of us to jailbreak our iPhones. Microsoft are coming at this release all guns blazing and it’s full of Microsoft things to do, [...]

Disabling conversation view in Gmail I loved Gmail and everything about it, except the disability to view each individual message in chronological order, reportedly that is going to change.  Google is set to  announce the functionality to disable Gmail’s conversation view e-mail threading feature, conversation view has been one of its most hotly debated features since Gmail’s launch. Google [...]

Facebook Facebook’s “Like” button could be integrated with Bing’s search results. Facebook and Microsoft are in talks and the  agreement would significantly expand the search relationship both the Internet giants share. Features expected includes the possibility for Bing’s search service to mine anonymized data from consumer usage of  Facebook’s Like buttons, which [...]

IE 9 Microsoft’s is all geared up  to release Internet Explorer 9, the new version of Internet Explorer browser to all and sundry  today. IE9 Beta is reported to be a beta that’s technically complete, so we shouldn’t have much to fear when the download is available later today. We are waiting to see how it will stand up to Firefox 4.0 which is also in beta. “Web browsing [...]

source : JustinAngel Twitpic According to a tweet image by Justin Angel who is  former Microsoft program manager with access to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, Microsoft has already started to populated the yet unreleased Windows Phone 7 Marketplace with a couple of third party applications along with in house apps. The images reveals  that there are at least placeholders for a variety of games [...]

Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 debut is not formally announced but, the  news of its launch is now in open  thanks to Kevin Turner, COO of Microsoft who has let slip that Windows Phone 7 handsets are set to ship in U.K. and rest of  Europe this October. Technology blog Engadget was the first to post a video about the comments made by the Microsoft Executive. “[It] has been tough – this [...]

Image Source - www.netmarketshare.com Microsoft’s good ole boy – Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, According to www.netmarketshare.com Internet Explorer has grown its usage share for the second month in a row. And once again, the fastest growing web browser overall is Internet Explorer 8. IE’s gains come, as before, at the expense of both Mozilla Firefox and [...]

Samsung Wave Samsung was earlier confirmed as one of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch partner. Samsung’s first Windows Phone 7 device news in now in open  thanks to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group which is a Bluetooth specifications group. The handset named Cetus has a 4-inch OLED screen, 5MP camera, front facing camera, GPS, Bluetooth and all the other gubbins you have come to expect [...]