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Google and Chinese government’s showdown has risked a lot of companies that used Google services. Motorola was one of them who used their Google Search and Maps for Android phones. However, now they’ve announced that beginning this quarter, Motorola will offer Microsoft’s Bing Search and Maps services on their Android phones. Quite a win for [...]

 
Time and again we hear a similar statement from MS so it’s not surprising we’re hearing it again when someone compared Xbox 360’s DVD format size restrictions to that of PS3’s Blu-ray. CVG recently had a sit down with Stephen McGill, director of Xbox and Entertainment and this is what he replied.
“We have no [...]

 
Courier is an interesting take on how Microsoft wants a journal or a diary want to be. Now couple more images and details have leaked of Microsoft’s supposed iPad competitor. The Courier is said to function as a digital journal and will be highly portable with an inch of thickness and smaller than a 5×7 [...]

 
So after whispers of Microsoft’s fabled Pink Project, we’ve got the first live pictures of phone from the Pink range. According to Gizmodo, the pictures are of Pink’s Pure phone. Pure – as we can see from the image – is a horizontal QWERTY slider phone that is said to be more intuitive than Android, [...]

 
Zune HD users can connect with friends on world’s largest social network. Microsoft has released the highly anticipated Facebook app (after Twitter) for Zune HD and is now available for download from the Zune Marketplace.
The app allows user to view/update their status, post photos, videos, view profiles as well as receive messages through the app. [...]

 
HD2 seemed one of the few devices that would run Windows Phone 7 OS flawlessly. But Microsoft today dropped the bomb saying that HD2 doesn’t make the cut to receive the upgrade, as previously rumored. As a matter of fact no phones currently running Windows Mobile 6.x OS will receive an upgrade. Why? Well, we’re [...]

 
Just a heads up to those still using the Release Candidate version of Windows 7. Windows 7 RC will automatically shutdown after every two hours till the expiry of RC in June. An easy and logical way is to of course, install a fresh retail copy of Windows 7.

 
Microsoft and Amazon have agreed to enter into a patent cross-licensing agreement. With the agreement in place, both companies will have access to patents from a broad range of products and technology. The intrinsic details are kept confidential but Microsoft has confirmed that Amazon will pay them an undisclosed amount as per the agreement.
Microsoft [...]

 
Microsoft just sent an e-mail stating that Office 2010 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for download to Connect users. Users beta-testing the suite can go ahead to Microsoft Connect and download the latest builds – v4734.1000 for 2010 client and build v4730.1010 for server products.
However, one important thing to know is that you’ll [...]

 
Microsoft may be gathering all the attention for its controller-free motion-sensing gaming, known as Project Natal. But according to a CVG source, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata apprarently turned it down before it was snagged by Microsoft almost a year later.
The rumor claims that the guys at 3DV Systems – who’ve developed the tech – initially demoed [...]

 
Sure, we’d heard ‘WinMo 7 at MWC’ talks from Digitimes and from a MS exec before but now CNET has chimed in claiming more than unveiling of the OS. In addition to show a demo of WinMo 7 at the show, sources tell them, MS is looking to finalize the code by summer for devices [...]

 
Here’s an interesting tidbit to get you, Microsoft fanboys, excited. Zune.net scheduled maintenance came out with an update to the Zune software (v4.2.202.0) and it’s got references of Zune Phone. The reference was found in software’s .inf file that lists all the compatible devices with their hardware IDs.
Istartedsomething, who brought this to everyone’s attention speculates [...]

 
Ballmer has iterated time and again that Microsoft is not interested in manufacturing hardware of its own for Windows Mobile. But Jefferies & Company analyst Katherine Egbert thinks otherwise. She claims recent industry checks from the firm say Microsoft has restarted the Pink project.
Most details are unknown but few things Egbert reckons is that [...]

 
The greatest and the mightiest rumormonger from Taiwan has spoken. This time it’s about Microsoft. Microsoft is allegedly planning to launch Windows Mobile 6.6 (codenamed Maldives) in Feb 2010, which also happens to be the month of MWC. Digitimes says the move is to combat the onslaught of Android-based devices and iPhone, also helping to [...]

 
CES did not have the slightest mention of Windows Mobile 7 but the MWC starting next month will supposedly be filled with it. In an analyst briefing, Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach confirmed that Microsoft is going to reveal the next Windows Mobile platform. Bach said that the “(WM7) has set the [...]