BLORGE » VISTA.BLORGE http://blorge.com Top technology news today Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:40:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Microsoft Stores finally go international http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/microsoft-stores-finally-go-international/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/microsoft-stores-finally-go-international/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:40:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/10/microsoft-stores-finally-go-international/

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A Microsoft Store is likely to be opening near you soon. Even if you’re not in the United States. Possibly. Probably. Microsoft has been opening Stores around the U.S. since late in 2009. It’s been an experiment to this point, with [...] Related posts: Microsoft opening more retail stores Microsoft now hiring employees for its [...]

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Microsoft has had fun roasting Google with its Gmail Man spoof. And why not? It’s all just a bit of fun, surely. Microsoft has been losing ground to Google in many sectors for the past few years. Gmail is growing at [...] Related posts: Google accuses Microsoft of spreading lies in new Hotmail ad Microsoft [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/09/microsoft-roasts-google-with-gmail-man/feed/ 0 Microsoft has a child friendly browser in the UK thanks to CEOP http://blorge.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-has-a-child-friendly-browser-in-the-uk-thanks-to-ceop/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-has-a-child-friendly-browser-in-the-uk-thanks-to-ceop/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:40:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-has-a-child-friendly-browser-in-the-uk-thanks-to-ceop/

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Microsoft now has a child friendly browser thanks [...] Related posts: Microsoft launches child-friendly Internet Explorer 8 for Safer Internet Day Microsoft tackling child porn Sophos: Microsoft’s Windows browser ballot could be exploited by hackers

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-has-a-child-friendly-browser-in-the-uk-thanks-to-ceop/feed/ 0 Google accuses Microsoft of spreading lies in new Hotmail ad http://blorge.com/2012/02/07/google-accuses-microsoft-of-spreading-lies-in-new-hotmail-ad/ http://blorge.com/2012/02/07/google-accuses-microsoft-of-spreading-lies-in-new-hotmail-ad/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:40:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/02/07/google-accuses-microsoft-of-spreading-lies-in-new-hotmail-ad/

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Google previously announced plans to merge data across all of its services in order improve the overall experience for the end users. Microsoft has accused Google of violating user privacy by reading their [...] Related posts: Google accuses Bing of copying Mozilla exec advises people to switch to Bing after Google privacy comments Microsoft accuses [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/02/07/google-accuses-microsoft-of-spreading-lies-in-new-hotmail-ad/feed/ 0 Hotmail ads to become Hotmail deals http://blorge.com/2012/01/31/hotmail-ads-to-become-hotmail-deals/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/31/hotmail-ads-to-become-hotmail-deals/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:20:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/31/hotmail-ads-to-become-hotmail-deals/

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If you still use Hotmail, and I am one of those rare individuals, then you’ll soon be seeing a change in the ads displayed alongside your email. Microsoft is replacing the banner adverts in Hotmail with deals. They’re still ads, [...] Related posts: Microsoft unveils new Hotmail it hopes will knock out Gmail, Yahoo Hotmail [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/31/hotmail-ads-to-become-hotmail-deals/feed/ 0 ‘Bing Is For #Doing’, So Says Microsoft http://blorge.com/2012/01/21/%e2%80%98bing-is-for-doing%e2%80%99-so-says-microsoft/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/21/%e2%80%98bing-is-for-doing%e2%80%99-so-says-microsoft/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:00:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/21/%e2%80%98bing-is-for-doing%e2%80%99-so-says-microsoft/

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Bing launched as a ‘decision engine’, with Microsoft trying to shift the attention away from Google’s ‘search engine’. Now Microsoft is upping its game. In a new series of commercials playing on TV from this weekend, Microsoft is extolling the [...] Related posts: Microsoft Bing hits new market share high Bing gains again – but [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/21/%e2%80%98bing-is-for-doing%e2%80%99-so-says-microsoft/feed/ 0 Microsoft’s latest challenge could net money for college students but only from certain colleges http://blorge.com/2012/01/18/microsoft%e2%80%99s-latest-challenge-could-net-money-for-college-students-but-only-from-certain-colleges/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/18/microsoft%e2%80%99s-latest-challenge-could-net-money-for-college-students-but-only-from-certain-colleges/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:20:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/18/microsoft%e2%80%99s-latest-challenge-could-net-money-for-college-students-but-only-from-certain-colleges/

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Microsoft’s Business Plan Collaborative Challenge 2012 [...] Related posts: British students encouraged to steal Vista Windows 7 just $30 for students Microsoft offers $500 Vista PC to Indian students

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/18/microsoft%e2%80%99s-latest-challenge-could-net-money-for-college-students-but-only-from-certain-colleges/feed/ 0 Microsoft investigates Foxconn worker mass suicide protest http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-investigates-foxconn-worker-mass-suicide-protest/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-investigates-foxconn-worker-mass-suicide-protest/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:00:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-investigates-foxconn-worker-mass-suicide-protest/

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Chinese manufacturer, Foxconn is in the news again with workers protesting poor working conditions at the factory. The manufacturing company came under scrutiny in the past after a number of suicides occurred in plants contracted by Apple, [...] Related posts: Microsoft investigates factory conditions NSW Department of Education and Training puts Windows Vista mass adoption [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-investigates-foxconn-worker-mass-suicide-protest/feed/ 0 Microsoft snags yet another Android manufacturer with royalty fees http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-snags-yet-another-android-manufacturer-with-royalty-fees/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-snags-yet-another-android-manufacturer-with-royalty-fees/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:00:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-snags-yet-another-android-manufacturer-with-royalty-fees/

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Microsoft’s patent infringement dispute with Google has been ongoing with no signs of it letting up. Microsoft has been going after various Android manufacturers instead of going after Google to collect royalty fees. Microsoft alleges [...] Related posts: Microsoft “extorts profits” from another company for using Android again Microsoft inks another clever Android patent deal, [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/16/microsoft-snags-yet-another-android-manufacturer-with-royalty-fees/feed/ 0 Kinect for PC is coming February 1 http://blorge.com/2012/01/11/kinect-for-pc-is-coming-february-1/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/11/kinect-for-pc-is-coming-february-1/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:20:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/11/kinect-for-pc-is-coming-february-1/

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While Ballmer’s CES keynote was as lacking in excitement as expected, there was [...] Related posts: Xbox Kinect an instant hit, but longterm? Microsoft unveils new Xbox 360, Kinect motion-sensing system at E3 2010 Microsoft welcomes Kinect hacking; denies Kinect hacking

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/11/kinect-for-pc-is-coming-february-1/feed/ 0 CES 2012: Microsoft reveals new Windows Phone flagship phone – Lumia 900 http://blorge.com/2012/01/09/ces-2012-microsoft-reveals-new-windows-phone-flagship-phone-%e2%80%93-lumia-900/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/09/ces-2012-microsoft-reveals-new-windows-phone-flagship-phone-%e2%80%93-lumia-900/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:00:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/09/ces-2012-microsoft-reveals-new-windows-phone-flagship-phone-%e2%80%93-lumia-900/

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Microsoft has a strategic partnership with Nokia that has been simmering all year long. Many speculated that a new handheld device between the two partners would hit the market this past holiday, [...] Related posts: 2012 is Microsoft’s last chance to make it big with Windows Phone 7 Nokia opts out of holiday Windows 7 [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/09/ces-2012-microsoft-reveals-new-windows-phone-flagship-phone-%e2%80%93-lumia-900/feed/ 0 2012 is Microsoft’s last chance to make it big with Windows Phone 7 http://blorge.com/2012/01/04/2012-is-microsoft%e2%80%99s-last-chance-to-make-it-big-with-windows-phone-7/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/04/2012-is-microsoft%e2%80%99s-last-chance-to-make-it-big-with-windows-phone-7/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:00:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/04/2012-is-microsoft%e2%80%99s-last-chance-to-make-it-big-with-windows-phone-7/

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Microsoft’s market share in the mobile sector has been shrinking for years, and the initial launch of Windows Phone 7 has failed to stop things from spiraling downward. However, there is a [...] Related posts: Microsoft’s mobile share plummets – last chance with Nokia partnership? Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7 Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 market [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/04/2012-is-microsoft%e2%80%99s-last-chance-to-make-it-big-with-windows-phone-7/feed/ 0 Microsoft kills ‘culture of heavy drinking’ http://blorge.com/2012/01/01/microsoft-kills-%e2%80%98culture-of-heavy-drinking%e2%80%99/ http://blorge.com/2012/01/01/microsoft-kills-%e2%80%98culture-of-heavy-drinking%e2%80%99/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:40:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2012/01/01/microsoft-kills-%e2%80%98culture-of-heavy-drinking%e2%80%99/

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Microsoft is making moves to kill its culture of heavy drinking. Not that it’s admitting the company has a culture of heavy drinking, you understand. During a court battle last year a string of allegations emerged suggesting Microsoft was [...] Related posts: Dick Brass: Dysfunctional Corporate Culture is killing innovation at Microsoft Windows 7 party [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2012/01/01/microsoft-kills-%e2%80%98culture-of-heavy-drinking%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 Microsoft’s swansong as CES keynote will be nothing special http://blorge.com/2011/12/21/microsoft%e2%80%99s-swansong-as-ces-keynote-will-be-nothing-special/ http://blorge.com/2011/12/21/microsoft%e2%80%99s-swansong-as-ces-keynote-will-be-nothing-special/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:00:05 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2011/12/21/microsoft%e2%80%99s-swansong-as-ces-keynote-will-be-nothing-special/

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Earlier today, Microsoft announced that it was no longer going to [...] Related posts: Steve Ballmer’s keynote at CES 2011 – ‘Windows isn’t going anywhere’ Windows 8 – Key to Microsoft’s future Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV conference delay fuels Xbox Live TV rumors

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]]> http://blorge.com/2011/12/21/microsoft%e2%80%99s-swansong-as-ces-keynote-will-be-nothing-special/feed/ 0 Novell antitrust case against Microsoft ends with a one juror deadlock http://blorge.com/2011/12/20/novell-antitrust-case-against-microsoft-ends-with-a-one-juror-deadlock/ http://blorge.com/2011/12/20/novell-antitrust-case-against-microsoft-ends-with-a-one-juror-deadlock/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:20:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2011/12/20/novell-antitrust-case-against-microsoft-ends-with-a-one-juror-deadlock/

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It seems like the current chapter in a dispute that is seven years old is coming to an end between Novell and Microsoft. Recently, Bill Gates testified in court after Novell accused Gates [...] Related posts: Novell accuses Microsoft of stabbing them in the back in a $1B lawsuit IBM, Novell, Red Hat and the [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2011/12/20/novell-antitrust-case-against-microsoft-ends-with-a-one-juror-deadlock/feed/ 0 IE6 users should be forced to upgrade! http://blorge.com/2011/12/18/ie6-users-should-be-forced-to-upgrade/ http://blorge.com/2011/12/18/ie6-users-should-be-forced-to-upgrade/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:20:04 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2011/12/18/ie6-users-should-be-forced-to-upgrade/

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Microsoft is rolling out silent updates for Internet Explorer in the new year. But as usual this is a half-baked effort that will let too many people off the hook to do any real good. Any IE users with [...] Related posts: Browser ballot confirmed for 1 March ‘IE users are dumb’ story revealed as [...]

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]]> http://blorge.com/2011/12/18/ie6-users-should-be-forced-to-upgrade/feed/ 0 So.cl arrives, is pointless as expected http://blorge.com/2011/12/15/so-cl-arrives-is-pointless-as-expected/ http://blorge.com/2011/12/15/so-cl-arrives-is-pointless-as-expected/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:20:03 +0000 admin http://blorge.com/2011/12/15/so-cl-arrives-is-pointless-as-expected/

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The curtains have been pulled back on So.cl, and what has been revealed is another pointless social network. Much as expected. Why, Microsoft, why? In July the first rumblings of a Microsoft-powered social network emerged, with Tulalip being inadvertently [...] Related posts: Microsoft social network is a terrible idea Microsoft readying Socl social network Microsoft [...]

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Nokia has opted out of any significant holiday phone sales.  [...] Related posts: Microsoft exec who tweeted Nokia Windows Phone 7 details leaves company 40,000 Windows Phone 7 sales: party or panic? Windows Phone 7 taking a beating

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