Recent Posts Tagged With 'Microsoft'

• Microsoft Knocks $50 Off The Xbox 360 Console to Compete with Wii

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 20:16 in Nintendo, wii, Microsoft, playstation, sony, christmas, industry news, ms, christmas gifts, xbos

  Microsoft is giving a $50 discount for the Xbox 360 gaming console, lowering the price in direct competition with what is thought to be the first price cut by Nintendo Co. for its Wii system. The discount will by way of a mail-in rebate, which is val...

• Nokia and Microsoft to Produce New Smartphones

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 17:28 in google, Nokia, Microsoft, symbian, blackberry, internet news, rim, smartphones, android

  Nokia and Microsoft and joining forces to produce a new range of smartphones (mobiles with internet access, email, social networking etc.). Between them they hope to strengthen their market position against the highly successful Blackberry from RIM, ...

• Google Comes Of Age as Conservatives Suggest Storing NHS Data on its Servers

  Posted on Monday July 6th, 2009 at 07:54 in google, Security, Microsoft, NHS, internet news, nhs database, google and nhs, tory it policy

  The British conservative party have suggested that they will use Google or Microsoft to store and manage patient data for the National Health Service. This may come as a surprise to most web users who still think of Google as still being just a searc...

• Conficker Virus Starts Installing Mystery Software

  Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 08:00 in Microsoft, virus, internet security, worm, keylogger, conflicker, trickler

  There is currently a major PC virus attack in progress, which is affecting millions of PC’s, and mostly is going unnoticed by home computer owners that do not follow PC security news, or run AV software. The virus is called Conflicker, and appe...

• Web3.0 - Cloud Wars: Will Google and Microsoft Meet in the Cloud?

  Posted on Wednesday December 17th, 2008 at 10:14 in google, Microsoft, cloud, industry news, web3.0

  In the last few weeks we have seen some interesting developments coming from both the Google and Microsoft camps, which could indicate a shift for both companies in their direction, and therefore the future of the internet. Google has released its fi...

• Microsoft Planning to Win 10 Year Contract to Operate Yahoo Search

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 06:32 in google, Microsoft, industry news, yahoo search, yahoo microsoft deal

  Hot off the press - the Yahoo-Microsoft merger is on the cards again as partnerships are forming. Although there is unlikely to be a complete takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft, the wheels are in motion for Microsoft to have a controlling stake in Yahoo,...

• Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Service Unveiled: Windows Azure

  Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 05:35 in Microsoft, amazon, internet news, google docs, ray ozzie, windows azure, cloud computing service, elastic cloud service

  Recently at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft unveiled their latest plans to revolutionise the internet and computing. Where Web2.0 brought interactivity to the internet, Windows Asure, will bring all the ...