Microsoft has officially unveiled its new Arc Touch Mouse today, with a suggested retail price of $69.95 and an availability timeframe of “early December in time for the U.S. holiday season.”
The wireless mouse folds flat down to a little over half an inch in size and comes with a USB nano receiver that attaches to the underside …
Bungie’s last chapter in the Halo franchise will be released September 14 and thanks to our friends at GameStop, Techland will be giving away one Xbox 360 Slim and a copy of Halo: Reach in conjunction with HaloFest. Hop on over to check out all the festivities and enter for a chance to win a life-sized Spartan.
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If you live in the US, UK, Mexico or Canada and have an Xbox Live membership, you may want to sit down for this. Starting November 1, Microsoft is increasing the price of Gold memberships from $50/year to $60/year in the US. 3-month memberships will jump from $20 to $25 and 1-month subscriptions will be …
Well how about that? Windows 95 was launched 15 years ago, today.
The cornerstone of its marketing campaign was the Start button, emphasized by the multi-million dollar licensing fee paid to the Rolling Stones for the rights to use the song “Start Me Up” as a promotional tool. Multitasking was also a big selling point.
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That mysterious peripheral that the Microsoft Hardware team was teasing via Twitter a couple weeks back is indeed the Arc Touch Mouse, as proposed by documents unearthed shortly after the guessing game started.
PC owners jealous of Apple’s Magic Mouse will be happy to hear that the Arc Touch packs the same type of touch scrolling …
Hot on the tails of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and PC announcements from Gamescom comes news from the Xbox 360 team – Kinect will launch November 10 in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Those of us in the United States of America will get it a week earlier on November 4. That’s great and all but we’re not getting Windows …
Microsoft’s Gamescom announcements aren’t just limited to Windows Phone 7. Oh no. The PC crowd will be getting Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight, along with Fable III, which was previously announced.
Robot Entertainment continues their run on Age of Empires with Online and will feature:
• A persistent online capital …
At this year’s Gamescom, Microsoft announced the first wave of what they promise is only a small portion of games that will be available for download when Windows Phone 7 devices launch this holiday. Earlier today in Manhattan, we got a chance to sit down with Kevin Unangst, Sr. Director of PC and mobile gaming at the Redmond …
It seems the cat is out of the bag. Neowin is reporting that the surprise the Microsoft Hardware team has been teasing on Twitter is what Microsoft Research is calling “Mouse 2.0”.
Come September, Microsoft will announce the Arc Touch Mouse. A research report that was released in October of 2009 details the team’s goal of …
The team at Microsoft who’s in charge of mice, keyboards and other peripherals has turned to Twitter to tease out an upcoming product.
We caught a glimpse of said new product on July 27 with a spliced image revealing the corner of a matte black finish peripheral. Yesterday they offered the following hint: “Don’t be so …
At Microsoft’s Financial Analysts Meeting yesterday, CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage to talk about the company’s consumer initiatives. The entire video of the presentation is available here. He spent a portion of the time talking about slates and tablets, saying the following:
“One of the top issues on my mind is, ‘Hey there’s a
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Back in early June, we got a glimpse of some of the iPad competitors that’ll be hitting shelves later this year. One of the main contenders is Asus, with the company showing off 10- and 12-inch versions of its impending EeePad line due in early 2011.
The company’s 12-inch tablet will reportedly run a full blown version of Windows 7
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