Microsoft really wants to hang with the cool kids at the mall. Or, at least park its retail derriere next to the likes of Apple’s sleek boutiques — to the tally of 86 stores by 2014. We know most of you are scratching your heads thinking, “Microsoft store?
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Leave it to the Senate to crush the military’s fragile dreams. All the Navy ever really wanted was a giant ship-based laser that could be used to shoot down missiles. Despite some record breaking stats , however, the latest defense authorization bill handed down from the Senate Armed Services Committee throws a giant congressional wet blanket on the free-electron laser .
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Senate denies Navy’s missile-destroying laser funding, puts the kibosh on annoying Dr. Evil impressions
The WebOS nuts at PreCentral have received an anonymous tip-off that HP’s imminent slate won’t be able to edit Office docs out of the box. As much as we’d like to dismiss this as a retaliatory rumor put out by BlackBerry, it emits an unfortunate whiff of truth. While HP has previously made a big deal of the TouchPad’s inclusion of the Quickoffice app, it has only said it’s “working with Quickoffice” to include document editing, and it has never demoed editing in action.
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HP TouchPad rumored to lack document editing at launch
Well, it looks like Google’s got the online rumor mill churning with its latest trademark application. Back on June 7th, El Goog filed a USPTO application for the name Photovine, sending sparks flying down the, er, grapevine about a possible photo-sharing program.
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Google trademarks Photovine, hints at new photo-sharing service
Microsoft just earned itself a boatload of geek-cred and made Apple and Sony look pretty bad in the process. We knew the Windows Phone team was playing nice with the jailbreakers from ChevronWP7, but we didn’t realize just how cozy the two were going to get. Today the devs announced that ChevronWP7 Labs would open up soon, with the approval of Redmond, allowing users to load homebrew apps on their handsets.
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ChevronWP7 Labs will jailbreak your Windows Phone with Microsoft’s approval
Nokia VP Victor Saeijs has this week disclosed the six launch markets for the vanguard devices born out of the Microsoft-Nokia partnership. France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK will all count themselves as hosts to Nokia’s Windows Phone debut , but the company’s mother nation of Finland has strangely been left out in the cold
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Nokia Windows Phones will launch in six European nations first, Finland not among them
We’ve been waiting for confirmation on yesterday’s rumor , about Microsoft’s motion-sensing Xbox 360 peripheral coming to PCs, and now we have it. MS has just now released a software development kit (SDK) for Windows that will allow .Net developers to write Kinecting apps in C++, C#, or VB. We spoke with some developer representatives from the company to get the full details, including just what you can and can’t do with this big bundle of libraries.
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Kinect for Windows SDK beta launches, wants PC users to get a move on
Well, look what we have here. It’s the LG P220′s big brother, the P330, and, as you can tell, good looks run in the family . Glancing at the spec sheet (after the break) it’s pretty clear this guy has been hitting the gym — there’s plenty of muscle inside in the form of an NVIDIA GT 555m.
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New LG P330 laptop has it all: brains, brawn, and beauty
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it — words Panasonic has clearly taken to heart with the Toughbook 19 . It’s time for the rugged, 10-inch convertible tablet to get its annual refresh and not much has changed visibly. Instead, the company gave its internals a boost with some Sandy Bridge goodness and slapped a new TransflectivePlus screen in this military-grade machine for computing in direct sunlight
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Panasonic Toughbook 19 scores upgraded internals to match its mighty shell
Microsoft’s already brought Xbox Live integration to Windows Phone 7, and it looks like you can count on some similar, if not deeper, integration in Windows 8 as well. Speaking to The Seattle Times , Microsoft VP Mike Delman said that “Live has been successful on the Windows Phone,” and that “Live will be built into the PC. It will be the service where you get your entertainment.” Delman went on to add that “Xbox Live will the pervasive media service across devices,” and that “whether it’s us or Apple or anybody else, people want to be able to navigate through multiple devices in a certain ecosystem very seamlessly so we’re committed to that.” As you might expect, however, he was still fairly light on any further specifics, but he did say that assets like Live and SkyDrive will be unified, and he promised that Microsoft will have plenty more to show at next year’s E3 — according to Delman, “you will not just see consoles and handhelds at this show next year, this show’s going to morph into other devices.” Microsoft talks Xbox Live integration in Windows 8, says service will be ‘pervasive’ across devices originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:43:00 EDT
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There’s little doubt that the launch of Windows 8 will bring with it a wave of new tablet devices from all sorts of manufacturers and vendors. But did any of us expect to see one bearing Microsoft’s own logo
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Microsoft eyeing own-brand Windows 8 tablet for end of 2012?
In the midst of fiddling with tablets and laptops at Computex , we haven’t been thinking much of eye-tracking technologies until we saw Utechzone’s booth.
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Utechzone Spring eye-tracking system hands-on (video)
The HTC bonanza that Sprint has been cooking up for a while now has its official launch date: June 24th . That will be the day when the 4.3-inch EVO 3D and its tablet buddy, the 7-inch EVO View 4G , launch on the Now Network, both equipped with WiMAX radios and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) as their OS
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HTC EVO 3D launches on June 24th for $200, joined by EVO View 4G tablet at $400
MasterImage and its parallax barrier 3D technology have been around for a while .
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MasterImage touts 4.3-, 7- and 10-inch glasses-free 3D displays, interest from ‘first tier’ device makers
So-called Ultrabooks were all the rage at Computex 2011, and ASUS , LG and Compal weren’t the only ones to stake a claim — this Lenovo IdeaPad U300S is another contender in the ultra-thin, sub-$1,000 notebook game.
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Lenovo’s IdeaPad U300S flaunts its trim frame at Computex
Just when we thought the Motorola Xoom had hit its stride at a blazing 1.504 billion operations per second , the trusty Tiamat kernel has strapped on an veritable afterburner capable of 1.7GHz. What happens when your shaking hands flip that switch and give that Tegra 2 all the jet fuel it can take?
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Motorola Xoom hits 1.7GHz, teeters on the edge of oblivion
Well, we already know that a certain tractor manufacturer isn’t particularly fond of LightSquared and its GPS-bustin’ LTE technology , but other companies with yellow logos apparently harbor a much different sentiment. Really, though, who wouldn’t be smiling when there’s a supposed $20 billion in it for you? According to the ever-familiar “people familiar” with the story, as quoted by Businessweek , LightSquared is getting closer to a long-rumored 15-year deal that would pay Sprint $20 billion in exchange for piggy-backing on its aggressive network expansion.
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LightSquared and Sprint reportedly close to $20 billion LTE agreement, John Deere watching closely
With E3 2011 just around the corner, expectations for Nintendo announcements are mighty high, but you can get a glimpse at the heat Sony’s packing before another day goes by. The official PlayStation.Blog spat out some footage of the quad-core NGP in action, and it’s not just playing last-gen games ; rather, there’s yet another glimpse at Uncharted , a brand new platformer called Sound Shapes where you build levels with a music sequencer (and which procedurally generates tunes as you play) and a taste of the cross-platform PS3 vs. NGP wireless racing you can expect in Wipeout HD.
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Sony NGP soaks up the pre-E3 glitz in official demo videos
Sure, you’d expect to find an amorphous silicon backplane behind your LCD, but RiTdisplay has now begun producing a-Si AMOLED displays that, according to the company, are a world’s first. Developed in conjunction with Ignis Innovation, the 3.5-inch panel was first unveiled at last month’s SID Display Week, where it beamed images in 320 x 480 resolution.
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RiTdisplay begins producing inexpensive a-Si AMOLED displays for smartphone makers
Having a gadget encased in ice is always a cool stunt (pun intended), but Fractal took one step further by using blocks of ice cut out of a Swedish river, and then have them shipped all the way to Computex in Taiwan. Apparently that’s how Scandinavians roll.
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Visualized: the coolest desktop chassis at Computex, literally
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While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
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The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
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Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
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