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7 Social Networks Obama And The GOP Hopefuls Should Definitely Join

When President Obama showed the power and potential of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in 2008, every politician and their chief of staff's mother jumped on the social media bandwagon. Yesterday Obama joined Instagram. Here are several other networks he--and his rivals--should be on.READ»

Rumor: Microsoft Following Apple Again, This Time Into Online TV

Microsoft often tramps along the same footpath that Apple's followed, hoping to cream some money from the market with a minimum of effort, and a new rumor suggests it's trying again--this time with online subscription TV.READ»

Xbox 360: No Longer a Gaming Console?

Forty percent of the time spent on Xbox Live, the gaming console's online service, is spent streaming Netflix, music, or on social networks, Microsoft revealed today.READ»

Halo: Reach Tops $200 Million on Launch Day, Crushes Avatar

"Halo: Reach" is not only Microsoft's biggest game of the year--its opening day sales show that it might just be the biggest launch of the year in any medium.READ»

Apple Game Center for iPhone Beats Xbox Live to the Mobile Punch

Along with Microsoft's Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7, Apple's new Game Center is going to change the very nature of portable gaming. READ»

Halo: Reach, the Biggest Xbox 360 Game of the Year, Leaks to BitTorrent

Halo: Reach, one of (if not the) biggest, most anticipated games of the year, is all over the pirate-friendly BitTorrent sites today. How did it happen?READ»

Microsoft Finally Launches a Portable Xbox--Inside Windows Phone 7

Years ago, there were rumors of a handheld Xbox to compete with the PSP and Nintendo DS. Microsoft finally delivered today, in a very bold way--high-end integration of Xbox and Xbox Live into Windows Phone 7. Gamers: read this.READ»

Microsoft Announces Record 4th-Quarter Revenue, Over $16 Billion

Microsoft's quarterly (and yearly) earnings report came out today, and it's mostly good news: major sales for Windows 7 and Xbox, with Bing losing money but showing positive growth.READ»

Xbox Not Just a Game: Xbox Live Earns More Than $1 Billion

Dennis Durkin, Xbox's chief operating officer revealed to Bloomberg that in the last fiscal year, the revenue from Xbox Live exceeded $1 Billion. With 12 million or so users paying $50 per year for Xbox Live, with companies producing ...READ»

Microsoft's Marc Whitten on ESPN Coming to Xbox, and Using Kinect for Interactive TV

With Microsoft's new Kinect camera, new kinds of interactivity will be coming to living rooms. Marc Whitten, the General Manager of Xbox Live, tells about speech recognition, about natural control, and how Kinect will change the living room.READ»

Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including HP, Spotify, and Microsoft.READ»

Modern Warfare 2 Expansion and Project Natal Coming to Xbox This Year

The blockbuster video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is about to get bigger. Microsoft announced an an exclusive expansion pack for the Xbox 360 at CES this evening, and also confirmed that the Project ...READ»

Facebook and Twitter Come to Xbox Live This Tuesday

The next update to the Xbox Live network will bring social networking support and new media opportunities to users.READ»

Microsoft's Shane Kim on Project Natal and the Xbox 360 Road Map

Microsoft continues to push the social networking and entertainment capabilities of the Xbox 360--games on demand and group movie viewing are two such features due in the next system update (due in August). We asked Shane Kim, Microsoft's VP of Strategy and Business Development for Interactive Entertainment, about the evolution of Xbox Live and what the launch of Project Natal means for the business.READ»

Microsoft Brings Social Networking and 3-D Motion Capture to Xbox 360

The rumors proved true: Microsoft is bringing motion a capture device to the Xbox 360. The company also announced that Xbox Live will support social networking via Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. Along with the usual flood of ...READ»

Gimmick or Genius?

A new gaming site lets gamers place wagers on their games, but is this enough to keep the website afloat?READ»

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