Topic: Microsoft Xbox Live

How Windows 7 Phones Use Apple and RIM's Powers Against Them

Microsoft is using two ideas borrowed from Apple and RIM's smartphone dominance: Business app integration; and AT&T's U-Verse to take on Apple TV.READ»

iFive: HP vs Oracle, ACLU vs DHS, Asteroid Flyby, Xbox Apologizes to Fort Gay, Google Live Search Hint

It's today everyone ... wanna see what's been happening while you were waiting for it to roll around?READ»

Actress Felicia Day Reroutes Her Career With Web Series "The Guild"

With her groundbreaking series "The Guild," actress Felicia Day took control of her own career -- and shook up the world of Web video in the process.READ»

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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»

Windows 7 Phones Will Interact With Xbox, Demo Future of Gaming

Real-time console game interactivity is coming to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices, which transforms the phone from a communications curio to an integral part of your game system. Apple may be following the same route. Should Sony be scared?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»

Hands-On With Windows Phone 7 Shows Innovative Interface (and Worrisome Rough Edges)

A near-final build of Windows Phone 7 went out to journalists and developers today, the best look we've gotten at this do-or-die Microsoft product yet. How does it look? Mostly good--mostly.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»

Sony's Susan Panico on the Move, 3-D Gaming, and the Future of the PlayStation Network

We talk with Susan Panico, the Senior Director of the PlayStation Network. She tells us about the state of PSN and the new PlayStation Plus service.READ»

Voices From E3: Gaming Luminaries on Games as Art and Roger Ebert

Back in April, film critic Roger Ebert stirred up a tempest in a teacup with his comment that gaming can never be art. Last week at E3, the game industry's annual mega-convention, I asked the gaming execs and creators I interviewed their thoughts on Ebert's opinion and if they could give him one game to change his mind, what would that be.READ»

iFive: BP Blunders... Again, College Humor's New Site, iPhone Preorder Chaos, Fast Portland, AOL Unloads Bebo

While you were dreaming of lounging by the pool, BP and AOL continued dog paddling, College Humor jumped into the gaming content deep end, AT&T got deluged, and Portland surfaced as a Fast City. 1. Portland, Oregon mayor Sam ...READ»

Microsoft Unveils Skinny, Cheaper Xbox, Announces Kinect Release Date

At a press event today, Microsoft unveiled a slimmer, cheaper Xbox 360 that will be released later this week for $299. Besides a sleeker design, the new console will include built-in WiFi-- the current box requires a ...READ»

Microsoft's and Apple's Product Lines Compared: This Is Why Apple Wins

Microsoft has, for the first time, been beaten in market cap by Apple. At the close of the market today, Apple sat at $222.12 billion, a gain of 1.8%, while Microsoft went down 1% to $219.18 billion. That makes Apple, according to ...READ»

Microsoft, Amazon Post Strong First Quarters on the Strengths of Windows 7 and Kindle

Amazon and Microsoft both announced quarterly earnings today, with encouraging results for two of their most important products: the Kindle and Windows 7.READ»

Crib Sheet: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook f8 Keynote

Facebook is invading the rest of the Internet, foisting its social manifest on your online life. Documents, toolbars, new search options, recommendations, plug-ins, and 30 new partners--this is what you need to know.READ»

Sony's PlayStation Network Director on Using Exclusive Content to Compete

How did Sony's original reality show "The Tester" perform on the PlayStation Network? And what does the success of such content mean for the competition with Xbox Live?READ»

Today in Most Innovative Companies

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

Apple Emulates Microsoft and Sony With Game Center (Updated)

Apple unveiled Game Center for the iPhone today--a social gaming network like Microsoft's Xbox Live. Even the feature list looks familiar: invite friends, matchmaking, leaderboards, and achievements. But what does it mean for Ngmoco and its similar network Plus+? Ngmoco responds.READ»

Crib Sheet: iPhone OS 4's Sexiest Features

Apple's just concluded the main part of its big reveal for the next-gen iPhone OS software, and it's chock-full of new features that'll turn the iPhone and iPad into faster, cleverer beasts. We've summed up the big seven changes for ...READ»

Trina Schwimmer, founder of GamingAngels

Upset with gaming magazines' token female editors -- if there were any women at all -- and the sneers with which the gaming press seemed to regard female gamers, Schwimmer started GamingAngels in 2003.READ»

Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Hulu, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft.READ»

Sony's PlayStation Move Ad Snarks on Microsoft's Project Natal, Ignores Nintendo Wii

Sony's new ad takes place six months in the future, in a world in which PlayStation Move has been released and is a huge success. That may be wishful thinking.READ»