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Windows Phone 7 Now Available, Heats Up U.S. Smartphone Competition
Congratulations, Microsoft! You've finally shaken off the shackles of your aging mobile OS, and joined the class of modern smartphones with Windows Phone 7 (WP7). Starting today, WP7-powered devices...
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Xbox Kinect Causes More Physical Harm, Thins Out the Herd
Last week, we discovered that the Xbox Kinect had already claimed its first victim less than 24 hours after landing on shelves in the U.S. -- and, since then, there have been many more casualties....
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Microsoft Has Katy Perry Put Out for Free, Won't Even Buy the Booze
As part of Monday's Windows Phone 7 launch, Katy Perry brought her Candy-Land-porno burlesque to the Roseland Ballroom in New York. You couldn't have marched us there with a shotgun in our backs --...
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Kinect Monitoring Could Usher New Era of Personalized Gaming
Xbox Kinect users have already provided the world with numerous demonstrations of ungainly goofiness. According to Engadget, Kinect doesn't just offer unbridled moments of uncoordinated motion-control...
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Kinect's Second Life: 5 Awesome Hacks, from Puppets to KinectBots
digg The Kinect hasn't exactly wowed gamers, and reviews of the add-on have been tepid at best. Still, the rather elaborate motion-controller for the Xbox 360 has found fans among the hacking...
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Google Cloud Connect Brings Docs Features to Office
Rather than continue to try and kick down the front door of Microsoft Office, Google is sneaking around the back. Google Cloud Connect is an Office add-on that syncs all your Office docs for easy...
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Microsoft Retail Outlets Mystify Consumers
When Microsoft opened its first branded store last year, it was assumed that the company was serious about combating Apple and the retail juggernaut it's become. But, as malls across the country teem...
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Murdoch Tries to Keep Google Out of Times Office, Fails
Rupert Murdoch really wanted his new Sunday Times office to be Google-free. So, he decided to set all of his employees' homepages to Bing (Microsoft's chess champ to Google's high school quarterback),...
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Microsoft Kinect Outpacing iPad in Sales (and Injuries)
The Xbox 360's Kinect motion-control system provoked comical moments of ungainly, destructive gaming immediately upon its release. Thankfully (for those with a predilection for schadenfreude), that...
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6 Brilliant Laptops, From Budget to Big-Ticket
Share Despite the fact that most Americans have been doing it for at least a decade, buying a laptop is getting increasingly difficult. A laptop makes a great gift if you don't mind splurging a bit...
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Kinect Hacks, Vol. II: Robots, Quadrocopters and an Invisibility Cloak
The modding and hacking community is simply having a field day with Microsoft's Kinect. It was just a couple of weeks ago that we highlighted a few of the fun and impressive things that people much...
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IE9's 'Tracking Protection' Lets Users Block Third-Party Sites From Tracking...
Share The next version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer will come with a new feature that allows users to block third-party companies from tracking their online behavior. The new tool, called Tracking...
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Why You Shouldn't Use Outlook Rules to Intercept Your Boss's E-mails
Big surprise! Turns out that forwarding your boss's e-mail to yourself with Outlook rules is quite illegal. Ars Technica reports that David Szymuszkiewicz, now a former IRS worker, learned this the...
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Ah, Finally. Kinect Porn Has Arrived, Thanks to ThriXXX
Well, it was inevitable. The second we start augmenting reality, using our bodies as controllers, and bringing our physical spaces into video games, we are immediately going to start thinking of...
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Microsoft Security Essentials Hits Version 2
Microsoft's Security Essentials has officially reached version 2. Ever since its launch last year, MSE has been a favorite among free security software connoisseurs. It's consistently ranked alongside...
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Microsoft Speller Challenge to Award $10,000 for a Better Spell Checker
Microsoft wants to make a better spell check and it's willing to pay $10,000 to the person or persons that can "build the best speller that proposes the most plausible spelling alternatives for each...
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'My Blackberry Is Not Working' Skit Puns on Tech's Fruity Gadget Names
Tech-related comedy is usually painfully awkward (e.g., any number of 'I'm a Mac' spoofs), but the BBC's sketch comedy 'The One Ronnie' may have pulled it off in a recent skit. Comedians Harry Enfield...
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IE Bug Gives Hackers Control Over Your PC, Microsoft Offers Band-Aid
Microsoft has discovered a new vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser that could allow hackers to take control over unprotected PCs. The new bug, which was discovered in all versions of the...
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People Admire Bill Gates More Than the Dalai Lama, Pope, Glenn Beck
The Dalai Lama and Pope Benedict XVI are two of the most lauded men in the world, but, according to a recent USAToday/Gallup poll, neither man is quite as admirable as Bill Gates. The Microsoft...
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Windows Media Player Thinks George W. Bush Memoir is an Anti-Bush Album
If you happened to have purchased George W. Bush's new 'Decision Points' audiobook (and let's be honest, who hasn't?), you may have noticed some curious chapter titles when you synced it with your PC....
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Hotmail's Mysterious Disappearing E-Mails Returning to Users' Inboxes
Many Hotmail users across the world reported over the weekend that their e-mails had been mysteriously deleted. Over the past couple of days, Microsoft's official forums were filled with complaints...
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Where to Watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's CES Keynote
Last year's CES keynote from Microsoft's Steve Ballmer was marked by power outages and a tease of the HP Slate. This year, our money is on yet another Windows tablet and maybe even a sneak peek of...
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Red Ring of Death? Blame Your Kinect (Maybe)
Gamers have found a new culprit in the great battle against the red ring o' death (or RRoD, for those in the know). Some consumers have told the BBC that they blame the Kinect for the death of their...
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Dispatches from CES: 'Wall Street,' Balloon Porn and a Nasty Case of...
Like Cinderella's magnificent chariot turning back into a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight, the wondrous luster of CES quickly transformed into a big, rotten vegetable as we entered Day Two. Maybe it...
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Your Complete Guide to Windows Security
We want to make one thing clear: we're not picking on Windows. But, the truth is, for a number of different reasons, keeping Microsoft's OS safe requires more thought and effort than other systems....
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Xbox Live Tags 11-Year-Old Autistic Boy a 'Cheater'
Update: According to the Twitter feed of XBLA's Director of Policy and Enforcement Stephen Toulouse, the account was "illegitimately modified" and Julius' mother has since been contacted. The Rainman...
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New Internet Explorer Flaw Affects All Versions, Every User
Share On Friday, Microsoft announced it had discovered a security flaw in Internet Explorer, used by over 900 million people, that could potentially affect every single user of the browser, regardless...
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Feature Film Downloads Skyrocket, Surpass TV Streams
In 2010, sales and rentals of feature-length films online climbed a stunning 38-percent, with U.S. consumers spending a grand total of $385 million on downloadable and streaming movies. By contrast,...
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Nokia Adopts Windows Phone 7, Kills Off Symbian OS
It's no secret that Nokia has been in trouble for some time -- especially in the U.S. market, where Symbian (its smartphone OS of choice) just didn't enjoy the same success that it did in Europe. The...
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Over 1,000 Nokia Employees Walk Out in Protest of WP7 Switch
Looks like some Nokia employees -- specifically those that work specifically on the now-dead Symbian platform -- are not particularly happy about the switch to Windows Phone 7. Over 1,000 employees at...
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Bing Shows Facebook Friend 'Likes' in Search Results
Bing now displays your Facebook friends who have "liked" a link in its search results. If you're searching for a restaurant in New Orleans, for example, and a friend has publicly "liked" one, then...
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Your Guide to Private Browsing
InPrivate, Incognito, Private Browsing -- whatever they want to brand it -- all modern browsers offer a special mode designed to keep what you do online a secret from prying eyes. Despite different...
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Embrace Your Inner Furry: Microsoft Patents 'Fringe Interests' Dating Service
An ingenious idea: Let those with "incongruous" dating appetites admit their kinks and quirks quietly, and, when no one is looking, have a match service pair them with potentially like-minded weirdos...
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Bing's Tactless Tsunami Tweet Provokes Twitter Rage
Did we learn nothing from Kenneth Cole's tasteless Twitter gaffe? Or is Microsoft just employing the same marketing brain trusts? Japan is on everyone's mind --at least, we hope -- and the tech...
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The Zune (What's That Again?) Kicks It
Sad news for the Zune guy and the three other people who care about Microsoft's long-embattled MP3 player: The company has halted production. Less than five years after rolling out its intended iPod...
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Report: Microsoft More Ethical Than Google, Facebook or Apple
Microsoft may not be worth as much money as Apple, but according to a new think-tank report, it's way more ethically sound. This year, the corporation earned a spot on Ethisphere's list of the 'World's...
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Microsoft Stitches Together Cell Phone Photos to Create 3-D Models
Microsoft researchers have whipped up an impressive new cell phone app that turns camera-phone snapshots into 3-D models. The app is similar to Microsoft's Photosynth, which stitches together images...
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Microsoft Files Antitrust Complaint Against Google in E.U. Court
A decade after fighting a major antitrust lawsuit, Microsoft has filed exactly the same charges against Google. Today, the company will file a formal antitrust complaint with the European Union,...
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Get a Free Month of Hulu Plus Just for Using IE9
Microsoft and Hulu are offering a pretty sweet deal: Visit Hulu.com/Plus with Internet Explorer 9, and you'll be offered a free, one-month trial of Hulu Plus simply for pinning the site to your...
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Students Create Smartphone App Capable of Detecting Malaria
A group of grad students has come up with a way to instantly diagnose malaria, using only a smartphone and some fancy software. The team, comprised of students from around the nation, developed the...
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