Foursquare: Here’s A Solution to Your PleaseRobMe Problem
March 11, 2010 – 12:50 PM | 0 Comments

By now you have probably heard of PleaseRobMe a service which aggregates all of the foursquare check-in’s into one place using the tweets sent out through the application.  There has been a lot of uproar …

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Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 7 Series
February 15, 2010 – 10:40 PM | 0 Comments
Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 7 Series

Microsoft unveiled their latest new product at the Mobile World Congress – what is it you ask? Windows Phone 7 Series.  Not in love with the name?  Yeah me either, but this is a …

Apple-Microsoft Deal Could Land Bing As Default Search For The iPhone
February 14, 2010 – 6:15 PM | 0 Comments
Apple-Microsoft Deal Could Land Bing As Default Search For The iPhone

Apple is rumored to be in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone effectively ousting Google.  If this deal goes through and according to a recent BusinessWeek post it …

PC vs Mac
February 13, 2010 – 12:45 PM | 0 Comments
PC vs Mac

I receive this question pretty frequently, “what’s better PC or Mac?” – it usually arises when someone is looking to purchase a new computer and is thinking of possibly buying a Mac after using a …

Halo 3: ODST Review
February 2, 2010 – 8:25 PM | 0 Comments
Halo 3: ODST Review

One of the second games I purchased for my Xbox 360 is among one of  the most popular game series to date, Halo. Halo 3: ODST came out after the original game, Halo 3, and …

Fable II Review
January 25, 2010 – 7:15 PM | 0 Comments
Fable II Review

Recently, Microsoft has re-released some of the Xbox 360 games as Platinum Hits. Along with this release, they also dropped the prices down to about 20 dollars. One of those games is called Fable II. …

Facebook Looks to Expand Their Social Ad Formats
January 22, 2010 – 5:00 PM | 0 Comments
Facebook Looks to Expand Their Social Ad Formats

Facebook is looking to expand their social ad formats and that means Microsoft may be losing out.  Back in 2007 when Microsoft invested a hefty $240 million to take a small part of Facebook to …

Microsoft Launches TechPolicy Website
January 8, 2010 – 2:10 PM | 0 Comments
Microsoft Launches TechPolicy Website

Microsoft is launching a new website today which it hopes will spur discussion on key technology policy debates about privacy, security, competition, cloud computing, intellectual property rights and other topics. The site includes opinion articles, …

Microsoft Launches Its Own D-Day. Windows 7 Released.
October 22, 2009 – 9:29 AM | 0 Comments
Microsoft Launches Its Own D-Day.  Windows 7 Released.

Today, Microsoft is releasing Windows 7.  The successor to infamous Windows Vista.  Now in a valiant attempt to not have a repeat of Windows Vista, Microsoft has been playing it smart.  This time around the …

Official Microsoft Stores Are A Genius Idea
September 23, 2009 – 7:13 PM | 0 Comments
Official Microsoft Stores Are A Genius Idea

I’ve seen a number of people “poke fun” at the idea of Microsoft opening up their own official stores and honestly I think it’s a brilliant move for Microsoft.  Microsoft needs to get out from …

Interview With Eric Havir From Microsoft Surface Team
September 11, 2009 – 7:30 PM | 0 Comments
Interview With Eric Havir From Microsoft Surface Team

As many of you know (see video and blog post) I had a chance to play with a Microsoft Surface while I attended Gnomedex this past August.  I was so impressed by it, I decided …

5 Awesome Windows 7 Features You Might Have Missed
September 4, 2009 – 9:12 PM | 0 Comments
5 Awesome Windows 7 Features You Might Have Missed

Windows 7 is coming out in October and with all the hype surrounding Microsoft’s new operating system there might be some features which you missed in passing.  Here are 5 new Windows 7 features which …

Microsoft Surface Overview
August 23, 2009 – 10:30 PM | 0 Comments
Microsoft Surface Overview

I was lucky enough to attend Gnomedex this year where I was able to play around with the Microsoft Surface.  For those who are unfamiliar with the Microsoft Surface it is a regular computer that …

Microsoft Outlook Coming To Mac
August 13, 2009 – 3:52 PM | 0 Comments
Microsoft Outlook Coming To Mac

Today, Microsoft announced that their next version of Mac Office (2010) will include a new application.  That new application being Outlook for Mac.  It will be replacing Entourage which is the current alternative to Outlook …

Will Google Have Anti-Trust Issues In The EU?
August 2, 2009 – 8:00 PM | 0 Comments
Will Google Have Anti-Trust Issues In The EU?

Today, I was thinking about the on-going Microsoft anti-trust issues in the European Union. The very same issues which led Microsoft to originally announce they would be selling a separate version of Windows 7 …

Google vs Yahoo & Microsoft
July 30, 2009 – 3:33 PM | 0 Comments
Google vs Yahoo & Microsoft

Well, it’s a done deal.  Microsoft and Yahoo have come to a 10 year partnership agreement with regards to search.  Microsoft’s new Bing search engine will be powering Yahoo search and handling the back end, …