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Push Notifications for Gaming, Xbox Live Beacons

It is not uncommon for me to simply be browsing the Netflix Instant Queue out of boredom, and clicking on random TV shows or movies out of lack of motivation to find something good to watch or a game to play with friends. Xbox Live plans on addressing this issue by allowing you to let ...

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 ...

Are You A Student? Get a Free Xbox 360 With Purchase of a Windows 7 PC

Talk about perfect timing. In a little less than three months my third semester of college will be starting right back up, and with a Mac that was recently on the fritz, I am internally debating a new PC purchase. This is alongside the fact that I eventually need to get a new Xbox 360 ...

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 ...

Optimism at Large: Chrome OS to Take 50% of PC Market in Three Years

It seems that, to some, going Apple and Microsoft free at events such at SXSW is going to be the norm, rather than the exception. Anton Wahlman, a contributor for The Street, is one of those people. He expects by 2014 that Chrome OS will be selling to the tune of 200 million units, making ...

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 ...

My Experience at The Microsoft Store

“Quiz! How do you insert an image into Microsoft Word 2011!” shouts a shrilled, and over-zealous voice. I was there, prompt and early for a genius bar appointment at the Apple Store to repair a Mac on the fritz. It just so happens that this particular Apple Store I was visiting is in the much ...

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 ...

Zune Pass Still Not Seeing The Stars

There is only one reason I wake up in the morning with a twinge of sadness upon opening my Macbook, and that is the realization that I am stuck with the most evil music player of them all. iTunes. Back in the glory days of owning a PC, I cherished Zune as a music player ...