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10 Million People Saying “Xbox Bing…” is 10 Million People Not Caring About Google
The Xbox 360 is my entertainment platform of choice. It is not uncommon for me to gloat to my friends that nearly four years ago, I bought a glorified Netflix playing machine. It turns out my Xbox 360 coupled with Netflix was such a good partnership, that my roommates and I decided to cut the cable ...
Artists Love The Asus Eee Slate Too
It turns out that even though Microsoft doesn’t have a set tablet strategy, Asus is going the way of Samsung with Android and is releasing quite an impressive Windows 7 tablet, and is letting the world know it. After using it personally at the Microsoft Store, I can confirm the awesomesauce that this dude speaks ...
Onit For WP7: The Bro-only App
In an attempt to target certain demographics within WP7, MSN has recently announced (marketplace link) a new application targeted towards men called Onit. The application looks rather basic, and this assumption is confirmed by Alex Wilhelm over at TNWMicrosoft, who also praises the elegant Metro UI design of the application. Unlike Alex though, I think ...
Bing not Matching Donations through RT’s is a Loss, not a Win
I get it. Corporations are big, bad, and horrendously evil. They either do too much, or simply not enough. The latest example of such corporate greed and self-serving was supposedly demonstrated by Bing with its outreach on Twitter. This tweet was responded to very negatively by much of the community, and led Bing to make ...
Accumulus Enables Credit Card Payments on Windows Phone 7
One of the fascinating apps that is missing on WP7 is the innovative credit card payment company and applicatiom, Square. Reason being? Lack of interest in investing in WP7, unless strong demand arises. Good thing for us that this lack of demand has not deterred Windows Azure payments platform, Accumulus, who just unveiled a credit ...