Xbox Live Arcade Launches this July

Microsoft will be launched Xbox Live Arcade on 14th July. The Xbox Live Arcade looks more attractive. There are already more than 250 games available on the Xbox Live Arcade, and keeps on adding every week automatically. Destination Arcade allows you to find out new games and content rather than the previous one which quite complicated being up-to-date.



The ability to sort by price, community rating, and more options you can choose as per your choice. The star-based rating system added in the last firmware update, games can disappear from view swiftly. The News Feed has all the latest news on XBLA unveils, and highlights titles have gone on sale. The Xbox Live Arcade will be offered for free through the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Via: slashgear

Toshiba now in Android and Windows 7 slate tablets

Toshiba has been affected by Apple iPad to produce slate tablets. It is now prepping slate tablets run Android or Microsoft OS. By the news Toshiba tablets come up to two different flavors, some run on windows 7 and some on Android. The Android tablets will be the cheaper of the two models, because Android is an open-source OS. It also packs a 10.1-inch touchscreen display.

While Windows slate tablets will be more expensive for its licensing fee, however, it is a more powerful processor. The packaging is dual screens which can be seen on the Microsoft Courier tablet. Toshiba slate tablets estimated launch on this year or early next year.

Via: techchee

Microsoft to launch Windows Phone 7 in early 2011

Microsoft plans to own a Windows Phone 7 handset where unveiled on past WMC 2010 a few days ago. The device itself will be Asus made smart phone. By the plan, it may be a competitor of Google Android phone and iPhone by next year. We just can speculate about how strong Microsoft can compete them.

As rumored before, this phone will not the one who bring Windows Phone 7 as its own OS where some vendors like HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba, plan to build their own Windows Phone 7 smart phone as well.

Via: Unwiredview

Apple and Microsoft to compete Google

Apple has just launched their PC Boot Camp 3.1 update and it also supports Windows 7 both 32-bit and 64-bit version for Mac users. Not only the OS that supports windows, the utilities and the hardware including keyboard and mouse also now supports Windows 7 to run. The older problems of Apple Trackpad and Laptop LED issues are also corrected in this update. The update can be downloaded at Boot Camp 3.1 support service.

Nevertheless, Apple now has intense cooperation with Microsoft where Apple rumored to change their iPhone’s default search engine to Microsoft Bing. This accelerate might be to compete their (Apple and Microsoft) rival (Google) where now Google has expanded their business to hardware concern with their debut Google Nexus One and Android.

According to Neilsen.Co, 86% of mobile users choose Google Search as their search engine while only 11% who use Bing for search in November. Most of iPhone users also change their default iPhone search engine to Google. Google is still phenomenon I think.

via: Geeky Gadgets

Microsoft Zune the pink phone

Microsoft Pink which is also called as Zune Phone probably will be coming in two months. Many rumors talked about it, but there is no official confirmation yet from Microsoft while Google has successfully launched their Google Phone.

According to technology analyst at Jefferies, Katherine Egbert, Zune-like handset might be announced either at MWC 2010 (in February), or at CTIA 2010 (in March). It seems also to be the first Windows Mobile 7 (WM 7) phone and features a 5MP camera with HD video recording.

WM 7 itself will be categorized into two editions, Windows Phone Seven Business Edition and Windows Phone Seven Media Edition. The Zune phone itself has a multimedia platform which means that if Zune coming, it would be a Windows Phone Seven Media Edition. But now, we just can wait and see.

via: unwiredview

Microsoft unveiled Bing for iPhone

After release Bing for Windows phones and Blackberry, Microsoft finally unveiled their latest application, Bing for iPhone. It brings all the features of their popular search engine to your iPhone which will serve you maps, images, movies, news and even shows you a direction. Just simply hold the mic button then speak up the address, Bing will show you the maps.



Searching the images also can be more fun which will serve you dozens endless images with related category and you just need to scroll it to find more images.

This application can be downloaded through iTunes store or directly or go to m.bing.com and we will redirect you to the app store. With all the complete features, Bing seems to be so easy to use than Google.

Via: bing

Windows 8 released 2012

Commonly, Microsoft launches an OS every four years, but this schedule was thrown off kilter due to a number of delays in the launch of Vista which in turn slowed the release of Windows 7. We have known that Vista and Windows 7 has no success progress than previous OS – Windows XP.

Microsoft today has tried to move on their progress including software development (Office suite) and OS (Windows 7 updates and Windows 8 release). Image above shows you a time table of Microsoft products release from year to year. The unstable time to release new products from Microsoft might be caused by some competitors’ progress in releasing a new reliable OS and software such as Linux, Mac OS, Android, and even Google Chrome OS where most of them have Open Source platform.

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