Tag: Microsoft
Microsoft's Zune not coming to UK until 2008?
That hefty piece of plastic we’ve been eyeing off for months now just keeps on blowing in the wind, as Bob Dylan would say. The US have had it since November 2006, and it’d been confirmed UK and Europe would be receiving it come Winter this year…until our good friend at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, reportedly told a German publication it’d been pushed back until 2008.
The reason behind this horror of horrors? According to the interview Ballmer gave the German publication Wirtschafts Woche, it’s due to the fact that the Zune is still to prove itself to Microsoft as a cash-cow….
Today on Tech Digest: Bill Gates meets Steve Jobs, iTunes Plus controversy, Palm Foleo and more…
THE BIG THREE
What happened when Bill Gates pow-wowed with Steve Jobs
iTunes Plus slated for sneaky user ID feature
Palm Foleo: a smartphone’s best friend?
THE NEXT FIFTEEN
Paul McCartney’s new album being sold DRM-free online… for $1.56
Video review: Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 laptop
YouTube hooks up with Apple TV
Lose weight using your iPod or PSP
Guess what smartphone Paris Hilton is holding and win a Bluetooth headset
eBay buys StumbleUpon social bookmarking site
How Ustream.tv and BlogTV will turn us all into broadcasters
Top 10 albums worth buying as iTunes Plus DRM-free downloads
LG launches Green Banana Phone in South Korea
PSP firmware update means Remote Play is GO GO GO!
Jela Skype mouse phone with LCD screen
DXG’s new seven-megapixel digital camera
New study suggests digital gadgets are going to waste
Google Gears untethers online applications
What devices can play iTunes Plus downloads?
THE SILLY ONE
The student common-room that’s a recycled Boeing 747 plane
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in joint-interview at All Things D conference
Yesterday at the All Things D conference, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs went head to head for the first time since 2005, when they were last seen together. People have been speculating for weeks now in both online and print media about how the two would interact with one another in their joint-interview, and just what the two powerful computing geniuses would shed light on, if anything.
For those spoiling for a blood-bath, you’ll be disappointed. Instead what viewers were treated to was a 90-minute long chat about the past 30 years they’ve worked as rivals, complete with plenty of reminiscing and laughter at their early ideas. The interview was hosted by Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg and technology reporter Kara Swisher, read on below for all the deets…
Today on Tech Digest: Microsoft Surface, Apple iTunes Plus, Last.fm and more
THE BIG THREE Our guide to Microsoft's Surface Apple launches iTunes Plus DRM-free music downloads CBS buys Last.fm for $280 million THE NEXT FIFTEEN Video review: HTC S710 smartphone Sharp's awesome-looking Aquos 912SH mobile phone Homersapien finally arrives in the…
Microsoft gets all touchy feely with Surface
Will Head writes… It would be great to sneak into the deepest, darkest, most top secret research labs at Microsoft for a day and just see what bizarre ideas its engineers have got stacked away, waiting for the right time…
The 10 questions people are asking about Microsoft's Surface technology
Another day, another innovative new technology from Microsoft. Surface is its name: it was announced earlier today, and Kat’s already been analysing its potential uses. But there are still plenty of questions around Microsoft’s whizzy connected-table technology.
Shiny Video Review: HTC S710 smartphone with Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 software
HTC
Alex and I test drive the HTC S710 using the brand new MS Windows Mobile 6 software – a first for the UK market…
Microsoft's Surface: what it does, who it's for, and why we should lust after one
When several of us Tech Digest writers were present at Bill Gates’s keynotes speech at CES in Las Vegas and saw a brief display of what we now know is Surface, which Dave announced earlier this morning, none of us realised it would be released this year. Heck, we thought we were looking at the sort of space-age technology that comes hand-in-hand with flying cars and bite-sized pills for every meal.
Instead, Surface will be released into the wild (well, commercial wild, anyway) this Winter, where T-Mobile, Starwood Hotels, Harrah’s casinos and gambling-company IGN will have first access to this exciting new way of computing…
Microsoft collaborates with, uh, Microsoft, to release Halo Zune MP3-player
Microsoft likes to keep things in the family (not suggesting anything there folks) hence the release of this Halo-themed Zune. The big ‘Soft actually owns Halo, and with one of the best PR firms working for them, they’ve joined two of their departments together to give us this MP3-player just in time…
