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»
Microsoft announced a huge update for its Bing search engine today. New features include free streaming music from Zune, games and TV shows that play within Bing, and more.READ»
DoubleTwist's new media player just landed on Android, and it may do for the OS what Google can't seem to: legitimately compete with Apple in music and video.READ»
Microsoft's newly announced Kin phones are unusual, and not just because they use the phrase "cranking social to 11" without any evident shame. It's what's inside these things that separates them from the pack--hardware and software services both.READ»
AppleInsider has reported disclosures from several sources close to the Microsoft/Sidekick debacle, saying that the failure is only a taste of Redmond's growing internal incompetence. The sources, which AppleInsider claims were ...READ»
Microsoft may be building a self-branded smartphone to combat the iPhone. But with over 60,000 apps, Apple's behemoth App Store might be too big to beat. What if a Zune (or a Zune-phone) could run iPhone apps? That's the potential ...READ»
We've covered bits and bobs about Microsoft's "Project Pink" Zune smartphone before, but the device since disappeared from the news. It's back again, matched with exciting rumors of an MS Tablet PC. Doesn't this all sound familiar?READ»
Several years ago, I moderated a panel at a design conference in Dubai. Among the panelists was a guy from Boeing, who dazzled the crowd with a slide show of the interior of the 787 Dreamliner. It was a view into an aviation ...READ»
Microsoft must really feel the heat from Apple's success. In a new ad campaign, the technology behemoth targets the hidden costs of iPod ownership. There's also a confusing leak pointing to a potential Zune-based phone that's due in ...READ»
Microsoft and Verizon might be conspiring to build an iPhone challenger. The two companies make an inauspicious team: sales of Microsoft's Zune media player, the likely basis for the new device, have been in freefall for months. ...READ»
Microsoft may have another new audio player up its sleeve: The Zune "3rd," as it's being dubbed. The tip came in the form of a supposed advertising image, seen below, courtesy of Gizmodo.
News of this Zune, which appears ...READ»
A flurry of Zune-related fan art has coursed across the tech blogs this week, most of it aimed at predicting the form and function of a Zune "HD"--an alleged full-screen Zune that Microsoft may release later this year. ...READ»
I just read an interesting article on Yahoo! about Microsoft's Zune. The article expresses some surprise that Microsoft is continuing to support its MP3 player even though it experienced a 54% drop in sales from the Zune and is ...READ»
It's been a tough year for Redmond: bricking Zunes, class-action suits, and the people-hate-Vista debacle. You'd think those three catapstrophes would be enough to make the PC giant shape up. You'd be wrong.
Microsoft [MSFT], it ...READ»
CES2009 is fast approaching, which may be why rumors are again circulating that Microsoft [MSFT] will soon launch a Zune-based iPhone rival. Despite the fact that Steve Ballmer, in referring to the iPhone said "It's not a concept ...READ»
Without a true finger-operable touchscreen phone, Nokia [NOK] has been a little bit behind the industry eight ball. The company has made repeated promises to release an iPhone competitor called the "Tube," but it's been ...READ»
If you've ever sat in a McDonald's [MCD] munching on a quarter-pounder and thought, "man, I really wish I could download music right now," you're finally in luck. A new Zune software update from Microsoft [MSFT] will give ...READ»
Yesterday in San Fransisco, Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL] announced a slew of music-related device and software updates for the iPod and Macintosh. Some are big and some are small, but as a collective whole, the updates are an effective ...READ»
