This weekend, from April 19th until the 22nd, Microsoft is unlocking every Xbox silver account in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Japan, and turning them into Gold accounts. During this period all Xbox owners will have access to all the benefits that Xbox Live Gold membership has to offer. This means that you can play [...]
Finally a PC manufacture is about to start shipping an ultrabook that features a high-resolution display, similar to the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and the Chromebook Pixel. Today we hear that Toshiba has announced KIRAbook, a new 13.3-inch ultrabook featuring a 10-point multitouch display with 2560 x 1440 pixels, 8GB of RAM, a healthy 256GB [...]
We are getting closer to start seeing Google Glass everywhere, the company already made public Mirror, the Glass API, but what we didn’t officially know until now is the technical specs for the new gadget. According to Google, this is what customers will get for $1,500: A 640 x 360 high-resolution display that “is the equivalent [...]
Windows 8 reimagined backfires Microsoft, take it with a grain of salt, but new information coming from Mary Jo Foley, a very reliable Microsoft watcher from ZDNet, is reporting that the software giant isn’t just bringing boot-to-desktop option, but it could also be considering bringing back the Start button in Windows 8.1 (Blue). Mary also emphasizes that [...]
Following the set of updates released last month, Microsoft is releasing today new updates for five of its Windows 8 core apps: News, Travel, Sports, Maps and Finance, and most of them are coming with new features. The most noticeable changes are in the News app, now you’ll be able to add your custom RSS feeds from [...]
Not to get so excited just yet, but apparently a newly discovered line of code may suggest that Microsoft will allow users to boot straight to the desktop, skipping the Start screen in Windows 8.1. Since the release of Windows 8, back in October, 2012, users have been complaining that they cannot boot right to [...]
Whether just playing catch up or pushing for innovation, Microsoft is working on a smartwatch with touch, The Wall Street Journal says. According to the report the software giant has contacted an unnamed number of Asian suppliers to deliver the components for the wearable device. If the rumor from the WSJ is legit, the folks [...]
Microsoft is building a 7-inch Surface tablet, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s still uncertain what shape the new Surface will take, but thus far according to WSJ, it will be smaller than the current Surface models and the rumor has it that will go into mass production later this year. The news comes in [...]
In Windows 8, Microsoft has introduced a new search experience, and while it brought something different from previous versions of Windows, users didn’t feel optimistic in the additional steps that requires to do a specific search. Now the software giant seems to be listening to those feedbacks and is adding a few new tweaks to Search in [...]
Windows Blue to include three additional features: Slide to shut down, automatic app update, and a new File Manager Windows 8-style app, a really welcome addition for PC and Windows RT users alike. Since the early leak of Windows Blue several days ago there has been a flood of new information emerging about features and [...]