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After recently purchasing a number of patents from IBM, Facebook has further strengthened its stance after striking a deal with Microsoft to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio it acquired from AOL recently for $550 million.
Microsoft only recently purchased 925 patents and patent applications from AOL as well as ...Continue reading →
Augmented Reality (AR) has played a part in many brand campaigns, either through smartphones to bring an otherwise static campaign to life, or through large screens which the audience reacts to. Because of this use, augmented reality is usually seen as gimmicky and having no practical use beyond superimposing cartoons ...Continue reading →
If hardware is the backbone to any good smartphone, then apps have become the lifeblood with many consumers judging a device on what they’re able to download for it. Microsoft know this and because it’s playing catchup with its competitors, iPhone and Android, it’s turned towards funding developers to ensure ...Continue reading →
Despite the number of apps in their marketplace exceeding 65,000, Windows Phone has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to properly compete with the half a million apps offered by Apple and Android.
With the lack of must-have apps available on the Windows Phone combined with the ...Continue reading →
Microsoft Research’s Applied Sciences Group (ASG) have been unveiling and demoing a lot of innovative and inspiring projects such as the holoflector (an augmented reality mirror) and Interactive Displays. However, one of their more impressive projects has to be their interactive 3D desktop which you can view without having to ...Continue reading →
The landscape of gaming is changing in front of our very eyes as it becomes influenced by social experiences and the mobile platforms that the games can now be distributed on. In this brilliant video recreation of the classic Godfather movie scene Super Mario who is acting as Don Corleone ...Continue reading →
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We’ve seen examples of people adapting new ways to stand out from the pack in their chosen profession and showcase their skills off to a wide number of people. Now we can add another person to the list, graphic designer Brandon Foy, who impressed Windows with his homemade Windows phone ...Continue reading →
The email wars seem to be hotting up as just a couple of days after Google started their email intervention campaign Microsoft are now back with their own campaign claiming that Gmail has some serious privacy issues. The Gmail man is a fictional character who goes around looking at people’s ...Continue reading →