With Windows 10 now up and running, maybe you want to go a step further and get it on a portable basis as well as at home. In that case, you may be interested in the MagicStick. This is a crowd funding effort that has been raising money on the Indiegogo site. Currently, it has got to $232,000 (£150,000), which is more than four times the original funding goal. So what is the MagicStick all about? This is a dongle that fits in an Intel Cherry Trail processor and also 8GB of RAM. It fits in an HDMI socket on a TV or monitor and could be...
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The brand new Microsoft wearable fitness tracking product known as The Band has finally arrived to the UK, having been on sale in the US for a while already. It is now on sale for £169.99 and offers a variety of functions. The Band comes with a total of 10 different sensors, GPS functionality, a 1.4 inch display and a battery that is said to last for 2 days. Microsoft has also arranged a tie-in with Nuffield Health that gives users a number of targeted Guided Workouts on the wearable, as well as the Health app that goes with them. Apparently,...
So, it’s the end at last, is it? It’s been an interesting last 15 years but Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger is finally reaching the end of the road. Not too long ago anyone who had a long distance relationship or had moved away from friends and family would have had this chat service as one of their main methods of communication. However, after a long and drawn out period of decline it is finally being switched off in China in October. The service was first brought out in 1999 under the name of MSN Messenger, and was a basic chat...
If you need to do presentations at work then maybe you are fed up sitting down and using something like PowerPoint to design graphics which will hopefully grab your audience’s attention. Well, the new Microsoft interactive whiteboard might be just what you need. We’ll start with the bad news this time, shall we? The design of this product is still not very advanced and it is unlikely that the presentations you make for the rest of this year will be carried out on an interactive whiteboard. Hey, don’t get too downhearted though, as...
Microsoft Corp. has unveiled the new SmartGlass streaming app and the new Xbox Music service at the company’s press conference in this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). In the company’s goal to make the Xbox 360 console more than just for gaming, the new Xbox Music service will grant users access to more than 30 million tracks. The app will not only work on Xbox 360 consoles, but also on both Windows Phone 7 smartphones and Windows 8 PCs and tablets. The announcement also serves as the death of the company’s...
Software giant Microsoft has quietly launched the new So.cl, a social networking site that is specifically designed for students. Although a social network service, the company clarified that the website is not meant to compete with Facebook or any other existing websites. The company has been giving hints to So.cl since last year, but it launched the site over the weekend quietly. So.cl (pronounced “social), which was developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, is an experimental project that aims to please students for its educational...
For the first time, Google Chrome has become the most popular Web browser in the world, edging out Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, according to the latest data from StatCounter. After years of climbing up the browser charts and taking away the market share of Microsoft, Google’s Chrome takes the top spot with 32.76 percent share, while Internet Explorer went down to 31.94 percent. Last year, Internet Explorer led the browser battle with 43 percent of the world’s market share, followed by Mozilla Firefox with 29 percent,...
Software giant Microsoft Corp. has announced the availability of its Windows 8 Consumer Preview, a pre-beta build of its next Windows operating system. This week, users can get the preview from its website at http://preview.windows.com. The new touch-based Windows 8 OS aims to power traditional PCs and tablet PCs, in an effort to counter the huge market gains of Apple Inc. through its iPads and iMacs. The consumer preview was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MEC) in Barcelona. This follows the release of the Windows 8 Developer Preview,...
Google’s Chrome browser just snatched the most popular web browser spot from Internet Explorer 8 during the last week of November, according to StatCounter. The browser from Google captured 23.6 percent of the market, surpassing the 23.5 percent of Internet Explorer 8. However, combining all versions of the browsers available, Internet Explorer still takes the cake, followed by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. According to StatCounter, the upswing can be attributed to the continued increase of business Chrome users. “Google...
The rumored Socl search/social network project of Microsoft seems to be real and is reported to be open for beta testing in the near future. A social network called ‘Socl’ is being developed by Microsoft to rival Google’s new Google+ and Facebook. Back in July, Microsoft hinted that a social network service is in the works when Socl.com was accidentally published for a short while. Many said that it was Microsoft’s secret social network. The Verge got access to the rumored site, which Microsoft said that only a...