I’m one fed up Hotmail user – and a Hotmail user who writes for a web site. So I get to make my rant public. Bear with me, I’m just the culture guy here -
Somewhere around 3 a.m. last Thursday, my e-mail account was closed. Deleted. Destroyed. Assassinated. Presumably by Hotmail administrators. Without any notice to me. I’ve …
Fall in troops!
So you want a code for the Halo: Reach beta, huh? Well, you’re gonna have to work for it. It’s quite simple, really.
Follow directions for a chance to win
1. Comment with the hashtag #haloreach on one or all of the following stories. The more you show up the greater your chances, but it doesn’t guarantee a win. …
If you’ve been endlessly searching for an academic approach to humor, look no further than Microsoft’s Education site. Specifically, the “competency” section for “humor.”
Did you know that there are four levels of proficiency in humor? It’s true. If you’re just at level one (basic), you may wonder where to find humor. …
TechCrunch is reporting that HP has scrubbed its Windows 7 tablet because a) Windows 7 makes for a horrible tablet OS and b) they’re said to be abandoning Intel-based hardware altogether.
It should come as no surprise, really. Now that HP has picked up Palm, it makes perfect sense to switch gears and focus on webOS. I’ve heard …
RIP Microsoft Courier, we hardly knew ye.
Gizmodo, the gadget blog that first uncovered the Courier last year, reports that Microsoft has all but scraped the project. The two-screen tablet folder was intriguing based on conceptual videos also obtained by Gizmodo, but we’ll never know for sure if any of what we saw would have made …
Microsoft has announced “Docs” for Facebook, a service that allows users to create, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents with their Facebook friends. While some of us may be wondering what took Microsoft so long to show up at the online document creation party, the company insists that Docs is something unique:
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Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger in February of 2008 renewed interest in the languishing mobile operating system formerly known as Windows Mobile. Many enthusiasts (aka fanboys) and pundits alike speculated and pontificated about Microsoft’s plans for the tiny Bay Area company behind the successful Hiptop OS/device aka Sidekick. But …
Monday, April 5, 2010
Today in Techland: Peter got mail from Iron Man. (No, really.) Doug prepped for baseball season. (You’ve got to see these baseball gizmos.) And me, I spent all day re-watching Red Letter Media’s scathing review of Attack of the Clones. Hilarious. But just in case that’s not enough …
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So it was revealed just now that Israeli-based PrimeSense is powering the 3D sensing and recognition technologies behind Microsoft’s Project Natal.
The PrimeSensor is comprised of three main components: PrimeSense’s PS1080 SoC, CMOS image sensor and an IR light source. So how do those three components make Project Natal work? Glad …
The most underrated product in Microsoft’s consumer portfolio has to be the Zune. I’m serious. For $15/month you have access to unlimited music. If you don’t renew you lose everything, but $15/month isn’t that much. Also, all the cool kids at Microsoft don’t even work on the main campus. The Xbox, Zune, Bing and Windows Phone …
Microsoft is slowly (slooooowly) making its way back into the mobile phone arena with the impending Windows Phone 7 initiative. It’s seriously like the guy who waits until 10:59:59 to check out of a hotel. Apple, Google, and even Palm are halfway to Albuquerque and Microsoft hasn’t even showered yet.
But Microsoft’s got a …
It makes sense now, right? The above demo by Eric Rudder at TechEd in Dubai is one of many reasons why I’m stoked for Windows Phone 7 devices to be released to the public. The ability to play a game that syncs across all three major Microsoft platforms (Xbox 360, Windows OS, Windows Phone 7) is bonkers.
Not that I use a Windows …
