Nokia will be unveiling half a dozen new devices at an event to be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates next month. Nokia announced the event – Innovation Reinvented – in a tweet last week. Nokia Expected To Launch 6 New Devices Nokia has not gone on record to mention that it will…
Reports have emerged claiming Nokia had been testing Android on its Lumia handsets before the sale of its Devices & Services division to Microsoft. The company reportedly had Android running on its Lumia phones and was strongly considering dumping Windows Phone before the Microsoft deal happened out of nowhere. Android Was Up and Running On…
Steam has announced that they will be implementing family sharing, Steam Family Share, in order to allow users to test out games that someone they know has already purchased. That way someone can save themselves from spending money on something before they’re sure they actually enjoy it. Alternatively a person could complete the entirety of…
Finnish giant Nokia seems to have gotten very optimistic, post its sale to Microsoft. Well, it’s CEO, to be precise. The company’s current interim CEO – Risto Siilasmaa, is envisioning the company 150 years in to the future. Yes, 150. “This is the beginning of the next 150 years of Nokia’s story” As part of…
Kinect on the Xbox 360 had a bit of a problem. It simply wasn’t that great –or workable –as a gaming peripheral. Most developers barely paid it any mind, relegating it to little more than a gimmick. Of those games that did end up using it exclusively, only the barest few were even remotely memorable….
The Xbox One has finally received a release date! You can get your hands on the newest Microsoft home console on November 22nd. Not only will the Xbox One be shipping out very soon, but it will even be more powerful than before. Yes that’s right, it was struck down by Sony at the latest…
Microsoft have announced they’re finally ready to go full ‘Brady Bunch’ with Nokia, even more than they have already (since their Febuary 2011 hand holding). Microsoft will be buying up, in technical terms, all the Nokia things. From devices and services, to the license of Nokia patents and the Nokia mapping services. Microsoft are going…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced his retirement last week. The man, popularly known as the ‘Monkey Boy’ for his over-enthusiastic public acts (such as jumping across the stage), will quit after 33 years of working at Microsoft. Steve Ballmer Says Goodbye To Microsoft The Microsoft veteran will quit ‘within the next 12 months’ to make…
Monkey Boy Steve Ballmer is leaving Microsoft. In an announcement last week, the CEO of Microsoft said he will be retiring from the company ‘within the next 12 months’. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer To Retire Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft way back in 1980, took over as Microsoft CEO from founder Bill Gates in January 2000 and…
Last week we talked about the Amazon deal to let Xbox 360 game owners trade in select titles in order to upgrade them to their Xbox One counterparts for only $10. Sony apparently saw the deal as a good idea and thought, “Hey, let’s do that but better.” If Playstation 3 owners didn’t have enough…
Microsoft have said a lot of things, since revealing the Xbox One. None of those things have seemed to thrill most of the Interwebverse (which is what the Universe would be if it was made of the Internet and spiders). That is, until now- Fable Legends is coming exclusively to Xbox One. Fable Legends Exclusive…
Microsoft and Google continue to haggle over multiple issues. Microsoft has been upset after Google recently blocked access to YouTube on Microsoft’s Windows Phone app because the app apparently violated Google’s Terms of Use. Google Blocks YouTube It all started 2 years ago, when Microsoft criticized Google for not letting it deliver a fully featured…
Microsoft seems to be unlucky with branding. After being forced to replace the “Metro UI” name with “Modern UI”, the company will now have to rename its cloud storage service – SkyDrive, after it lost a UK court battle. A SkyDrive By Any Other Name…. A U.K court has ruled in favour of Britain’s Sky…
Google Glass move over, Microsoft has applied for a patent on some augmented reality glasses. They have not only applied for a patent on the product, but its ability to match up players in the area as well. The patent describes the system as: Microsoft Patents Augmented Reality Tech A system and related methods…
According to a Microsoft Executive, GameStop had to stop taking pre-orders for the XBox One due to very high demand and not because of low supply. Aaron Greenberg, Xbox Chief of staff, recently tweeted that the demand for the next gen Xbox One at GameStop is “Through the roof”. XBox One Demand “Through The Roof”…