By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle the biggest tech rumors of this week! In this episode of Rumor Roundup, Jon talks about Microsoft’s plan to release another Surface tablet running Windows RT but with a smaller 8″ screen, Apple changing their strategy by releasing the…
By Brandon Russell |
Acquiring Tumblr won’t be quite as simple as shelling out $1 billion. If Yahoo really wants the popular blogging service, it’ll have to participate in a royal rumble with Facebook and Microsoft, according to new report from Forbes. Right now, Yahoo is currently in lockup…
By Todd Haselton |
Earlier this month we covered a rumor that suggested Microsoft’s new and smaller Surface tablet will launch in June with a display that measures between 7-inches and 8-inches. Now, DigiTimes says that it has confirmed with supply chain makers that the new device will have an…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft has no plans to make a bid for Nook Media, a joint venture between Microsoft and Barnes & Noble, despite rumors to the contrary. According to industry insiders, the Redmond company hasn’t made any official moves to take the floundering venture off the retailer’s…
By Adriana Lee |
Google versus Apple is so over. It’s all about Google versus Microsoft now. Yes, I know that Google CEO Larry Page told I/O attendees that companies shouldn’t be pitted against each together in the press, but it’s sort of tough not to when those companies…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft on Tuesday added Google Talk support to Outlook.com, allowing users to seamlessly keep in touch through the Redmond company’s sleek email service. The move comes hours before Google is supposedly preparing to introduce its unified Hangouts service, which we’re hearing will be available through…
By Brandon Russell |
As expected, Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 upgrade this summer will be referred to as Windows Blue. Speaking on a conference call today, the company’s CFO Tami Reller confirmed the moniker, and revealed that the upcoming software will come as a free update to existing Windows 8…
By Brandon Russell |
With smartphone theft on the rise, New York City officials are growing more and more concerned with public safety. Devices aren’t just being snatched from tabletops or bar counters; thieves are holding consumers up at knife and even gunpoint, threatening serious physical harm over the…
By Todd Haselton |
Bill Gates recently sat down for an interview with 60 Minutes in which he discussed his final conversations with the late Steve Jobs. Gates said he was able to spend time with Jobs while the then Apple CEO was sick and that they discussed what the…
By Todd Haselton |
Last June Microsoft announced that its Windows Phone Store was home to more than 100,000 applications. That wasn’t too shabby at the time considering that the operating system was still relatively new in the grand scheme of mobile operating systems. Now, however, in conjunction with…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft is reportedly considering offering as much as $1 billion for Barnes & Noble’s Nook Media unit, of which it is already a partner, according to paperwork obtained by TechCrunch. The news bumped shares of Barnes & Noble roughly 21 percent at the time of publication,…
By Brandon Russell |
Amy Hood, a key executive inside the Microsoft chain, has been appointed chief financial officer, the Redmond company announced on Wednesday. Following the departure of Peter Klein, who was with the company for almost 11 years, a huge hole was left in the Microsoft ranks;…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft is stepping up its retail presence with four more specialty stores across America. The company announced the news on Wednesday, saying the little ad-hoc shops will show up through May and June, mostly in the mid-west. Microsoft previously opened up five store-within-a-store experiences in…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC may quietly be working on two Windows RT tablets, according to a new rumor that was published by PhoneArena on Tuesday. Apparently the names actually have meaning: the number may represent the screen size, a 7-inch and a 12-inch tablet, and the R may stand…
By Brandon Russell |
YouTube on Tuesday rolled out a significant update for its app on Windows Phone 8, completely redesigning the experience to take advantage of the platform’s minimalist appearance. Microsoft said the app just went live, so you should get a notification soon; if not, you can…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia investors are getting restless. The company recently reported its first quarter 2013 results noting that sales were down, which isn’t good considering it’s betting most of the farm on Windows Phone 8, which is continuing to struggle against competing mobile operating systems iOS and…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft recently confirmed that it has sold more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses, although that includes licenses sold on new shipments of Windows 8-powered devices. That’s a 40 million bump from the 60 million licenses that had been sold as of January. Microsoft’s CFO…
By Brandon Russell |
In a recent interview with CNBC, Microsoft founder Bill Gates defended the company’s Surface tablets, while downplaying Apple’s iPad in the process. Even with (reportedly) mediocre sales, and declining PC interest, Gates said the Surface’s features as a tablet/PC hybrid make it the better value…
By Todd Haselton |
Amazon recently spilled the beans on Acer’s $399 W3-810 8.1-inch Windows 8 tablet, but it won’t be the only company competing in that arena. Asus says it will follow in those footsteps later this year. The Wall Street Journal recently spoke with the firm’s CEO who…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft’s rumored smaller Surface tablet won’t be out until early next year, potentially missing a huge surge over the busy holiday period. There have been hints we’d see a follow up Surface to compete with the likes of Google, Amazon and Apple, but it was…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft Office may not launch for iOS and Android until next year, but it’s clearly already on the company’s radar. Speaking during an event in Norway recently, a creative director with Wolff Olins, a brand consulting firm accidentally suggested that somewhere deep in Microsoft’s Redmond…
By Joey Davidson |
As this generation of consoles slowly draws to a close, we’ve decided to recount some of our favorite exclusive titles from each platform. Over the next three weeks, we’ll be doing just that with these top 10 lists. First up is the Xbox 360. There…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft announced on Friday that it has finished transitioning all of its Hotmail users over to Outlook.com, which is now home to more than 400 million active users. Of those 400 million active users, 125 million are accessing most of the services on a mobile device using Exchange…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to announce its second generation Surface tablets during its Build Developer Conference in June. The company is apparently preparing to launch the tablet with a screen size that measures between 7 inches and 9 inches, DigiTimes said Thursday. Component suppliers have allegedly already…
