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Skype for iOS update means getting a lot of different things done faster
Microsoft has given Skype for iOS a boost with new app integrations that include, most importantly, Skype working with Apple Maps and the calendar on your iOS device. Skype 6.6 for iPad and iPhone, says Microsoft, has been reinvented to make multi-tasking easier. What this means is that now right now your Skype chat you ...
What’s up with Man in the High Castle?
I was talking with a friend the other day, Oliver Benjamin, the founder of the new sort of religion, Dudeism, about the series The Man in the High Castle, another Philip K. Dick novel turned out for the screen. You’ve got to realize, said Benjamin (I am paraphrasing) that when Dick wrote that no one ...
Microsoft’s delectable Xbox One deals for Black Friday, starting today
“The big day is coming,” says Microsoft in a video clip heralding Black Friday. A statement that is perhaps a tad bombastic, but nonetheless, Xbox is offering some pretty decent treats. This starts with a sale at the Xbox Store on November 24th, which consists of Xbox One and Xbox 360 content being sold at ...
Microsoft makes great changes to Bing for iPhone in a bid to deflate Google dominance
Microsoft has made massive changes to its Bing for iPhone app, with an emphasis on bringing up more relevant and useful information during searches that is integrated with your apps. The improved Bing, using Microsoft’s Knowledge and Action Graph, will pull up the required information but provide deep links into your other iPhone apps so that ...
Writers write Microsoft into a thing of science fiction
The Redmond tech giant, and what goes on within the walls of Microsoft, has been turned into a book of short stories. The book, ‘Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft’, consists of nine stories by nine science fiction writers who were allowed into Microsoft’s labs to help them imagine what the future of computer technology ...
Now we know where, when, and how to buy Microsoft’s first Windows 10 phones
One of Microsoft’s two Lumia flagship phones will go on sale November 20th, and as we first thought, it will be with AT&T. The phone is the Lumia 950, which is a bit smaller than, and not quite as powerful as its big brother, the Lumia 950XL. Without a contract AT&T have set the price ...
Microsoft schools us with myriad OneNote updates
Microsoft has been busy improvising OneNote this month on various platforms, including added features for iPad and iPhone that we reported just a couple of weeks ago. The latest updates, for multiple platforms, are a little more impressive than mere inking. Firstly, for iOS and web, users can now avail themselves of audio recording in ...
Collaboration leader offers next generation of structured mobile and desktop collaboration in the enterprise
harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft in the enterprise sector – interviewed by us last week concerning Microsoft’s OneDrive fiasco – this week launched harmon.ie 2016. We talked to the company’s CEO, Yaacov Cohen, about the release and what it means for customers in the enterprise. If you’re unfamiliar with the ...
Release date, impressive camera shots and the price of Microsoft’s new Lumia phones
Microsoft’s two new flagship Windows Phones may have been the subject of myriad leaks, but at least the leaks pretty much always turned out to be the truth. The most recent leak has established the release date of the two phones, the Lumia 950 and 950 XL, and that will be November 20th. Windows Central has said that ...
How to make the new Star Trek series better than it’s ever been before
It’s official that a new series of Star Trek (not related to upcoming film: Star Trek Beyond) will air on the CBS Television Network in 2017. Without giving much away, StarTrek.com did share something about what the new cast will be boldly doing: “The brand-new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and ...