James Farrell, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Microsoft’s new ultra-thin foldable keyboard will fit in your pocket and work on any device with Bluetooth

By James Farrell Mar 3, 2015

It so often happens when you’re on the go that you want to type out a long message, or jot down an idea, or even wax poetical, but you can’t be bothered tapping it…

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Scandal at Microsoft: a $22,000 expenses bill in South Korean Hostess Bars and the now former managers who questioned it

By James Farrell Feb 27, 2015

Two managers say they were forced out of their jobs at Microsoft after they questioned a $22,000 expenses claim that they believed could have partly been to pay for sexual services at a hostess…

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Microsoft’s Garage comes out with a flurry of apps for Windows phone and Android

By James Farrell Feb 26, 2015

Microsoft’s hive of after-hours creativity, aptly named the Microsoft Garage, has been tinkering with ideas now and releasing the manifestations of those ideas for half a decade. The ‘Garage Geeks’, as Microsoft calls the…

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Microsoft ends Facebook chat and Google chat support for Outlook.com

By James Farrell Feb 25, 2015

Yesterday Microsoft sent an email to its Outlook.com customers notifying them that no longer will Facebook and Google chat services be supported. The discontinuation of the services should happen over the next two weeks, it…

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Microsoft’s Band gets cool updates, releases developer SDK preview

By James Farrell Feb 24, 2015

Just a few months after the Microsoft Band went on the market the company has released some big updates (the first updates) that puts Microsoft firmly in the race to create one of best…

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Getting to the party on time: Microsoft bringing folks together with location finding app ‘People Sense’

By James Farrell Feb 23, 2015

Have you ever been that person who missed the party because you didn’t know where everyone was, or you’ve gone out of your mind wondering why your girlfriend is two hours late for your…

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Microsoft adds handwriting feature and OCR to OneNote for iPad

By James Farrell Feb 20, 2015

Microsoft has added what it called a “top requested feature” to iPad. The new update means that users can go into handwriting mode and with any stylus of your choosing start to make notes…

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Microsoft axes messaging app ‘Rooms’

By James Farrell Feb 19, 2015

Rooms, Microsoft’s Windows Phone app that was launched in 2012, will no longer be supported by the company. The app, which was considered to be an extension of the People hub, was a social…

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Microsoft reaches milestone in cloud privacy with compliance to ISO 27018

By James Farrell Feb 18, 2015

Feeling unshakably confident about our data stored in the cloud is probably a disposition we’ll never quite reach, but Microsoft just made some headway in instilling us with some faith by making its Azure…

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Feeling more secure? Windows 10 moves beyond passwords with biometrics from Microsoft

By James Farrell Feb 17, 2015

In a bid to strengthen cyber-security and address the problem of remembering multiple passwords Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will support FIDO (Fast Identification Online) with an aim to having eye-scanning and fingerprint…

James Farrell

Microsoft’s new ultra-thin foldable keyboard will fit in your pocket and work on any device with Bluetooth

Scandal at Microsoft: a $22,000 expenses bill in South Korean Hostess Bars and the now former managers who questioned it

Microsoft’s Garage comes out with a flurry of apps for Windows phone and Android

Microsoft ends Facebook chat and Google chat support for Outlook.com

Microsoft’s Band gets cool updates, releases developer SDK preview

Getting to the party on time: Microsoft bringing folks together with location finding app ‘People Sense’

Microsoft adds handwriting feature and OCR to OneNote for iPad

Microsoft axes messaging app ‘Rooms’

Feeling more secure? Windows 10 moves beyond passwords with biometrics from Microsoft

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