Tag: Microsoft
Budget 4G smartphone the Nokia Lumia 635 coming to UK
Nokia's Lumia 635 4G LTE smartphone lands in the UK next week, with a base price of £120. The phone features a 4.5-inch display, a five-Megapixel camera, runs Windows Phone 8.1 on a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 8GB internal…
Microsoft offers to trade your MacBook Air for a Surface Pro 3
Software giant Microsoft seems pretty confident that its Surface Pro 3 is a viable replacement for Apple's MacBook Air. The company is bribing Apple users to switch their allegiance by offering customers in the US, Puerto Rico and Canada up…
Nokia's new charger is pants … literally
You never have to worry about your phone's battery going flat again, as long as have your pants on. Now you can wear a pair of trousers that comes equipped with a wireless phone charger, taking wearable technology to a…
Dead Rising 3: Arcade Remix DLC announced by Microsoft – available RIGHT NOW!
While much of what Microsoft announced in its E3 presentation won't be out until later this year, or even 2015, there was one new "game" revealed that is available right now. But it has a very silly name. Are you…
Microsoft's 2014 E3 Presentation: The long awaited apology for last year
We've waited a long time for it, but this evening's Microsoft E3 presentation, announcing games for the forthcoming year was essentially an apology for last year's disastrous presentation, which went on to set the tone for the opening salvos in…
E3 2014 preview roundup
The biggest video games show in the universe – well, on planet Earth at least – is about to kick off. For one week every June, the Los Angeles Convention Centre is taken over by the great and good of…
Skype to translate audio in real time – the future has arrived!
Microsoft CEO Satyna Nadella has dropped a bit of a bombshell: later this year Skype will be getting real-time audio translation on Windows 8.1. For real. How space-age is this? The idea is that you will be able to hold…
Is the Windows XP registry hack safe?
The tech news sites were buzzing this morning with the revelation that a simple registry hack could enable those still using Windows XP to receive updates from Microsoft. PC Pro was just one site reporting that a registry "tweak" would…
Does Microsoft expect Windows Phone to fail?
Contrary to expectations, it has emerged that Microsoft will continue to make Nokia's nascent line of Android handsets now that it has acquired Nokia's phone business. Does this suggest that Microsoft are expecting Windows Phone to fail? Wait, what? Go…
Halo 5: Guardians coming in 2015
Master Chief will return to the battlefield next year. Microsoft and game developer 343 have announced the next instalment in the Halo universe – Halo 5: Guardians, due out in the autumn of 2015. Announcing the sequel, 343 general manager…
