May 21, 2013

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Microsoft Bing to Defend Google And Yahoo with New Upgrades

Microsoft Bing to Defend Google And Yahoo with New Upgrades

Microsoft Bing is slowly gaining on its rivals, but Google continues to lead the pack, recent comScore measures search engine show. According to comScore, throughout November, Bing Microsoft rose 0.3 per cent in the search market, while Google and Yahoo dropped 0.1 percent. Bing gain is attributed to recent improvements to the search engine, including [...]

Microsoft Gears of War 3 Beta Adds ‘Bulletstorm’ Epic Edition

Gears of War 3 Beta Adds 'Bulletstorm' Epic Edition

Epic Games is offering for Bulletstorm, as the developer announced today that the “Epic Edition” for the game will come packed with a code for early access to the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta. “Epic is poised to break new ground in 2011 with Gears of War 3 and Bulletstorm,” Epic Games president Dr. [...]

Xbox Live Marketplace to Start Holiday Sales Next Week

Xbox Live Marketplace to Start Holiday Sales Next Week

Microsoft is going to reward your fiscal responsibility with a sale on several titles next week. Larry Hyrb (aka Major Nelson) detailed the sale, which starts Tuesday, December 21 and runs through New Year’s Eve on December 31. The discounts range from bigger titles rolling out as games on demand, like Just Cause 2 and [...]

Orange XBOX 360 TRON Controller Starts Pre-order

XBOX 360 TRON Controller Image

With the impending release of Tron: Legacy, Performance Designed Products (PDP) has announced another special Tron controller for the Xbox 360. it’s an orange controller for the Xbox 360 that is up for pre-order at the moment for $ 39.99. Performance Designed Products is actively involved in designing and manufacturing peripherals for all major video [...]

Verizon and Sprint releasing Windows Phone 7 next Month?

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Verizon and Sprint are reportedly getting ready to offer handsets based on Windows Phone 7, a move that would give a boost to the Microsoft mobile operating system. Until now Windows Phone 7, which began shipping last month, has only been available on T-Mobile and AT&T networks. A source has confirmed to Neowin.com that we [...]

WordPress App for WP 7 Now Available for Download

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We had reported a rumour back in late November claimed that WordPress is coming to Windows Phone 7 and now Automattic has officially released the app in the WP7 Marketplace. The blogging platform is now available for free and according to its creators, the WP7 version will utilize: “WordPress for Windows Phone is an Open [...]

Microsoft to Announce New Slate to Compete with iPad

Microsoft to Announce New Slate to Compete with iPad

The news from the close associates of Microsoft say that the Chief Executive of Microsoft Mr. Steve Ballmer might be announcing its new Slates at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2011. It is expected that the new product of Microsoft will give a tough fight to the Apple iPad. The first [...]

Microsoft is expected to release an Update for Windows Phone 7 in February 2011

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Windows Phone 7 users should mark February 2011 in their calendars, because it seems Microsoft is one step ahead of them at the moment as in February 2011 at the Mobile World Congress it is expected that a second major update to the mobile OS Windows Phone 7 will be brought to its users. Microsoft’s [...]

Minor OTA Update for Motorola DROID to be released soon

Motorola Droid Samrtphone Image

There is no denying that the original first-gen Motorola DROID has seen better days. With a processor speed about half of what is available with the Motorola DROID 2 Global model, and smaller storage to boot, the latest iterations of DROID phones can run circles around Time Magazine’s 2009 Gadget of the Year. If you [...]

Kinect to Outsell Move: Analyst Reports

Kinect to Outsell Move Analyst Reports

This week began with Microsoft announcing that the Kinect has sold 2.5 million units worldwide in 25 days. The Kinect for Xbox 360 has had a great showing so far, One million units the first day at retailers, 2.5 million units sold worldwide in its first 25 days, and now Wedbush’s Michael Pachter has stated [...]

XBLA “Games for the Holidays” Gets Dated: Keflings, Raskulls and ilomilo

XBLA Games for the Holidays

Microsoft Game Studios presents “Games for the Holidays,” a line-up of three Xbox LIVE Arcade games coming this holiday season: which will be headlined by A World of Keflings. The sequel to A Kingdom for Keflings will launch on December 22, for $10. This will start the “Games for the Holidays” promotion, which also includes [...]