Intel Plans To Buy McAffe At A Price Of $7.68 Billion

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Asia Bizz: Intel Plans To Buy McAffe At A Price Of $7.68 Billion
American chip making giant, Intel has decided to purchase McAfee, a security technology company for a price of $7.68 billion. The purchase of the company will be done in cash, because Microsoft wants to take a strong step in software and OS security.

Reports [...]

Microsoft Kin Discontinued For The New Windows 7 Phone?

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Microsoft has discontinoued its phone called Kin, barely 48 days since its launch and reports now state that Microsoft is probably spending time on it’s Windows Mobile 7 phone.

Reports say that the major drawback for the product was in spite of the fact that the phone came with a social networking device, it was not [...]

Microsoft’s Kinect For Xbox 360 Launched At E3 2010 Convention In Los Angeles

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Asia Bizz: Microsoft’s Kinect For Xbox 360 Launched At E3 2010 Convention In Los Angeles

The E3 2010 video game convention in Los Angeles, California, saw the launch of Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 and Sony’s Playstation, competing directly with the much coveted Nintendo Wii.

Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360
Reports state that Microsoft revealed their Project Natal, [...]

Microsoft To Shut Down Xbox Live on April 14 2010

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Microsoft will be putting an end to the Xbox live service for the original Xbox on April 14 2010.
The internet giant had launched the original Xbox live service at the same time it launched its original Xbox gaming console in 2002. The Xbox live was one of the first successful online gaming services available to [...]

Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7’s App Story

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Microsoft announced details regarding Windows Phone 7 Series’ application store, software development kit and user interface.

The Silverlight and XNA programming environments will play major roles for third-party software developers. Microsoft previewed the software toolkits at its MIX developer conference this morning.
Windows Phone 7 Series is Microsoft’s reboot of its mobile platform previously named Windows Mobile. [...]

Facebook removes banner ads of Microsoft from its site

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Facebook took full control of display ads on the world most popular social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business.

However, Microsoft — the exclusive provider of Web search on Facebook — will continue to sell text-based search ads on the website as the partners [...]