Samsung’s Nexus S is one of the few smartphones capable of NFC transfers in the U.S. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com It’s the most wonderful time of the year…again. The holidays are coming, yes, but we’re talking about the biggest gadget-related event of the season coming in a little over a month: [...]
runMobileCompatibilityScript(‘myExperience1192767061001′, ‘anId’);brightcove.createExperiences(); This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the crew talks about big Amazon news, the upcoming iPhone event and Microsoft’s latest mobile update. Staff writer Mike Isaac kicks off the show with reviews editor Mike Calore, weighing in on Amazon’s big tablet announcements this week. There’s a [...]
www.youtube.com Click this to watch Inside Gaming from 01/30/10! Inside Gaming: Microsoft X10 & Bad Company 2 Single Mode: 2/3/10 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E08 X10 is here, Gears of War invades Lost Planet 2, and some Bad Company 2 single player. This is Inside Gaming for February 3rd, 2010. [...]
Microsoft opened up the Kinect Software Developement Kit to coders everywhere Thursday. (Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com) Microsoft on Thursday released a software development kit for its Kinect gaming system, and hackers are already testing the limits of what the device can do. After the release of the SDK, Microsoft invited a [...]
Communications manager tweets denial Nokia and Microsoft may be sitting in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G., but rumours of an imminent acquisition posted by infamous?Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin have been rapidly debunked. Murtazin claims that Nokia is to start negotiations with Microsoft next week for the sale of its phone unit. He [...]
Crowd-sourced traffic database in the works Apple?has said that it plans to launch a traffic service in the next couple of years taking on TomTom and Google in the mapping business. “Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone [...]
See when you’ll get yours Microsoft has posted a useful chart of when networks will be getting the NoDo Windows Phone 7 update although the official line is, due to the roll-out being delivered in batches, even in the delivery stage: “It might take several weeks before you receive notice [...]
Copy and paste “waiting in the wings” You may have read earlier this week on Pocket-lint how the NoGo update for Windows Phone 7 – the one that will bring copy and paste functionality – has been delayed, yet again, and now Microsoft has admitted that there are issues with [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Despite Nokia deal and Android success You may have read earlier on Pocket-lint that Nokia bossman Stephen Elop came out all guns blazing with regards to the other Windows Phone 7 manufacturers, stating that the Nokia/Microsoft deal is “not a standard OEM agreement”, that Nokia has the power to [...]
Windows to become compatible with mobile chip architecture Microsoft will use CES 2011 to launch a version of Windows that can play nicely with ARM architecture mobile chips for the first time. ARM based chips are produced by the likes of Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Sharp and Samsung, and can [...]