HTC Shores Up In Legal Fights With 30K-Patent Deal
In one swift move, HTC may have just diffused what could have become yet another legal bomb: the handset maker yesterday entered into a long… Read more »
O2 Undercuts Big Box Retailers On Kinect To Lure Mobile Upgrades
As price competition continues to put pressure on mobile operators, O2 has come up with a new customer retention strategy: give them a game… Read more »
Why Microsoft’s Kinect Is Going To Make A Big Splash
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I’m in the business of identifying when there’s a change in the wind coming that will push us in a new direction. On balance, I’ve been succ… Read more »
Microsoft Reportedly Shutting Down Its In-Game Ad Unit Massive
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which we had heard was shopping its Massive in-game ad unit, is now reportedly shutting down the operation. Mediawee… Read more »
Microsoft Appoints New Presidents — For Mobile, Entertainment And Office
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is turning to its existing executive ranks to fill the vacancies left by the departures of entertainment and devices… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.09.10
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» The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) saw its shares rise as high as 8 percent upon speculation that Mexican billionaire Carlos Sl… Read more »
RIM Continues To Pick Up Some Assets — This Time From DataViz
Research In Motion has acquired some of the assets of DataViz, a 26-year-old company that has focused on bringing Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) pro… Read more »
Microsoft Lays Out How Windows Phone 7 Will Tie-In With The Xbox
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is hoping that some of the success it has had with gaming on the video game console will carry over to the mobile pho… Read more »
Zune Subscription Entertainment Going Global – But Not Via Zune HD
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) appears ready to take more of its Zune services outside the U.S. for the first time, using Windows Phone 7 as a beach… Read more »
Microsoft Cancels Its TV-Style Game Show On The Xbox
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is canceling 1 vs. 100, the live game show it launched for its Xbox Live online gaming service a year ago, which was… Read more »
Is Bing Coming To Xbox Live?
Look for some new entertainment-related features to be added to Microsoft’s Bing search engine this week. The company is hosting a showy pre… Read more »
Microsoft To Add ESPN Content To Xbox Live
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which had much success bringing Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to Xbox Live, and then following that up with link-ups with Las… Read more »
What’s Next For Microsoft In E&D?
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Microsoft’s surprise announcement this morning that Robbie Bach, who had led the company’s entertainment and devices unit since it was start… Read more »
Microsoft E&D President Bach Out; Product Guru Allard’s Departure Official
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Robbie Bach, who has led Microsoft’s entertainment and devices group since it was started five years ago, is stepping down, as is chief tech… Read more »
Chernin Exploring Xbox TV Channel With Microsoft?
It’s the entertainment industry’s latest version of Where’s Waldo: what in the world is Peter Chernin up to? Working with Steven Spielberg o… Read more »
Microsoft Reportedly In Talks To Buy Social Games Maker CrowdStar
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) seems intent on making a big entry into the social games space. The company announced a week ago that it would bring… Read more »
Microsoft CVP Rodriquez Leaves; Responsibility For Zune, Mediaroom, Media Center Split
A significant reorganization at Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division. Enrique Rodriguez, the CVP who oversees the company’s TV, vi… Read more »
Microsoft, Disney In Talks To Bring ESPN To Xbox Live
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Microsoft’s Xbox Live internet service, which recently lost one of its trump cards when rivals Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Nintendo matched its par… Read more »
Why The Future Of Game-Related Advertising Looks Like EA’s Dr. Pepper Deal
By many accounts, 2009 was the first year that interactive advertising budgets actually shrank. Stats for display were dismal, and even sear… Read more »
Microsoft’s Bing To Be Default Search Engine On HP PCs Worldwide
That rumored Apple-rival slate isn’t being unveiled, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is announcing some minor pieces of news du… Read more »
Upgraded iPhone App Makes Xbox LIVE More Mobile And Social
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Indie developer Juan Xavier Larrea has released a new version of his 360 Live iPhone app, that lets Xbox LIVE users sign in to their account… Read more »
BBC’s Increasingly Popular iPlayer Struggles To Hit Xbox, iPhone
Appetite for BBC iPlayer is growing stronger and stronger. October requests reached a record 79.3 million, according to new, more detailed s… Read more »
Xbox Connection Funnels A Million New Subscribers To Last.fm
*CBS* should be pleased with its choice to allow *Microsoft* to sync Xbox LIVE to Last.fm, as the partnership has already netted the streami… Read more »
Sony Prepping A Pay-To-Play Service For The PlayStation Network
Functionality aside, one of the biggest differences between Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE gamer network, and Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) has be… Read more »
First Look: Zune, Twitter, Facebook And Last.fm On Xbox
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Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 cons… Read more »
First Look: Last.fm, Zune, Twitter And Facebook On Xbox
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Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 cons… Read more »
As Last.fm, Facebook And Zune Go Live On Xbox, Sony Preps Social Features For PS3
*Microsoft* rolled out a slew of new social features for the Xbox 360 today, making its already popular Xbox LIVE network a much more compre… Read more »
Microsoft Risks Zune In Europe With Xbox Video Update
The Zune portable media player still doesn’t exist in Europe, but that isn’t stopping Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) bringing the Zune brand across… Read more »
Microsoft’s Massive Partners With comScore To Prove In-Game Ads Work
Microsoft’s Massive Inc. unit is on a mission to let you know that its in-game ads work. The business is partnering with comScore (NSDQ: SCO… Read more »
Microsoft Disconnects Xbox Pirates, No Three Strikes Needed
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Hundreds of thousands of Xbox 360 users who have illegally modified their console to play copied games have been disconnected from the onlin… Read more »
Microsoft Plans Another Season For Its TV-Style Game Show On The Xbox
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is bringing back 1 vs. 100, the live game show it launched in open beta on the Xbox this summer. The company tells us… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Canvas Social Viewing; Shazam App; Xbox-Sky VOD Roll-Out
– BBC Canvas: Richard Halton, the man in charge of the BBC-convened open IPTV project Canvas, says the project’s partners are working on Ca… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Sky-Xbox Problems Persist; BBC iPlayer On Freesat; Channel 4 Social Viewing
– Sky-Xbox problems: The technical problems that beset the launch of Sky’s channels on the Xbox 360 have continued: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)… Read more »
As Netflix/Wii Talks Heat Up, Sony Adds More Video To PlayStation Network
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More TV shows, movies and online series coming to the PlayStation Network, as talks between Nintendo and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) reportedly hea… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Sky-Xbox Technical Glitch; PC Game Downloads; Blinkx Music Vid Search
– Sky-Xbox glitches: After all the fanfare, Sky’s long-awaited Xbox 360 VOD service was pulled shortly after its full launch on Tuesday bec… Read more »
Sony Crashes Microsoft’s Netflix Party: The PS3 Gets Streaming, Too
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About that “exclusive” agreement with *Netflix* for streaming movies on the Xbox 360 that *Microsoft* was boasting about … It’s not so ex… Read more »
Sky Readies Xbox 360 Sky Player Service
It’s been more than four months since BSkyB and Microsoft announced an ambitious plan to delivery pay TV over the software maker’s Xbox 3… Read more »
Industry Moves: Microsoft Interactive Entertainment CVP Kim To Leave
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Interactive Entertainment CVP Shane Kim is leaving — the latest in a line of executives to exit the business, which… Read more »
Microsoft Narrows Device Options With Zune HD But Expands Web, Xbox Horizons
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) takes a major step closer to a cross-platform entertainment experience with today’s launch of the Zune HD, Zune 4.0 s… Read more »
PS3, Xbox 360 Price Cuts Drive Sales — Will Nintendo Cave And Slash Wii Pricing, Too?
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Back-to-back $100 price drops from *Sony* and *Microsoft* for the PS3 and Xbox, respectively, pumped up sales of both consoles in just over… Read more »
