Tag: "Microsoft"

A Foot in All Platforms: iPad + Android Phone + Windows PC.

A Foot in All Platforms: iPad + Android Phone + Windows PC.

As an awesome 38 year old dude, who specializes in local marketing, I thought I would share with you my personal tech “get-up” and my rationale for my choices of technical gadgetry and the operating systems of choice. I help businesses be found online. I need to know what in the hell Google is doing [...]

Microsoft to Buy Skype?

Microsoft to Buy Skype?

According to the Wall Street Journal report, Microsoft is close to a deal to purchase Skype, the Internet’s site with the most members. Think Facebook has the most members? Nope. Skype does, and Microsoft is thinking about buying it for $7 billion to $8.5 billion dollars. Why would Microsoft want Skype? Actually my estimation, it [...]

Windows Home Server Beta Open To Public

Windows Home Server Beta Open To Public

Microsoft has just opened its next Home Server OS to public beta. Microsoft says that the Vail beta only works on 64-bit systems, with the minimum requirements being “a 1.4 GHz x64 processor, 1 GB RAM, and at least one 160 GB hard drive.”

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I’m Sorry About The Hipster Commercials

Microsoft has just pulled a “controversial” ad for the new Kin phones, citing complaints that the ad encouraged sexting. There were also furries in it so that could also be the reason.

The Frugal Fanboy: Coffee, Macs And Arcs

The Frugal Fanboy: Coffee, Macs And Arcs

Great deals on brand-name coffee, an evil designer keyboard, and even on the mythical MacBook Air.

Can't You Call It The Buscemi?

Microsoft Pink To Be Microsoft Kin; No Word On Where The P Went

The Pink Phone is now the Kin. Let the name hate begin.

Google Winning Against Apple In Phone Share

Google Winning Against Apple In Phone Share

Google is slowing catching up to Apple in the smartphone market.

Phones Over PCs

Phones Over PCs

By the end of 2012, smartphones will outnumber computers 491.9 million to 443.1 million.

Sexual Orientation Now Permitted in Gamertags on Xbox Live

Sexual Orientation Now Permitted in Gamertags on Xbox Live

Microsoft announced today that sexual orientation will now be permitted in gamertags on Xbox Live. This seemed enevitable considering the direction the games themsleves have taken over the past couple years.  Sites like GayGamer have been around for a while and have quite the sizable following. Rockstar created an entire extension of their popular Grand Theft [...]

Clash Of The Titans: Yahoo OK To Team Up With Microsoft

Clash Of The Titans: Yahoo OK To Team Up With Microsoft

US And EU Regulators OK Yahoo! And Microsoft Search Deal.

Hands On Zune Phone

Hands On Zune Phone

Gizmodohas a nice feature hands on article about the New Microsoft Zune Phone.  And according to resident Apple fanboi Jesus Diaz, Microsoft has out appled Apple. Pics of the Windows 7 Series mobile phone O/S after the jump. It’s a little snazier than the humorous Youtube video made a couple years ago. Images courtesy Cnet.

The only way that a ZunePhone will appeal to me

Why I Think The ZunePhone Will Fail

The Zune Phone will be an absymal failure.  I hold fast to this belief even though I have never used or even seen a ZunePhone.  Additionally, I haven’t read any articles on the ZunePhone – not even blog posts. I have no proof of this or any experience in the telecom, computer, or consumer electronics [...]

Microsoft to Unveil Zune Phone on Monday 2-12-10

Microsoft to Unveil Zune Phone on Monday 2-12-10

The Wallstreet Journal is reporting that Microsoft is about to show the Zune Phone on Monday. As seen on Gizmodo. Microsoft Corp. plans to introduce long-awaited new software for powering cellphones on Monday, as the company seeks to regain a technology edge in the market against rivals like Apple Inc. and Google Inc. At a wireless [...]

Social Wars: Aol Teams Up With Facebook

Social Wars: Aol Teams Up With Facebook

Aol has announced that it will team up with Facebook to link Facebook Chat with Aol’s chat client, AIM. This is largely in response to yesterday’s announcement by Google of it’s new social networking service, Google Buzz, which looks to expand into territory held by Facebook and Twitter.  While Aol gains little from it, Facebook [...]

Rumor: ZunePhone To Debut This Month

Rumor: ZunePhone To Debut This Month

Project Pink To Stop Being Vapor And Start Being Real.

No, really... Steve Jobs' house is just like the Yerba Buena Convention Center

iPad: There Are Worse Names Out There

iPad. Now super-absorbant.

Get the jokes out of your system because, as names go, it could have been worse. Whether it’s a name associated with genitalia or one that is associated with failure. Here are five other names that would make Don Draper vomit in shame.