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Microsoft Pairs Xbox With Mobile Devices Using SmartGlass

At its E3 press conference today, Microsoft unveiled a recently rumored mobile integration service for the Xbox called SmartGlass.

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Bing Update Rolls Out For US Users, Pushes Social Search In The Fight Against Google

After announcing the slew of new features coming to the Microsoft search engine a few weeks back, the all-new Bing has been rolled out to users in the United States this week.

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Microsoft Says Xbox Sales Are “Gravity Defying”

In a blog post this week, Yusuf Mehdi of the Xbox team, detailed how the “gravity defying” sales of the nearly seven year old console are due to its transformation from gaming to all media.

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Amazon Instant Video Is Now On Xbox Too

Amazon’s Instant Video streaming service is a PlayStation 3 exclusive no longer. Today Amazon announced that its Netflix competitive streaming library has made the transition to the Xbox 360 console, nearly two months after it first debuted on the PlayStation 3.

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Ubi And Kinect Will Turn Your Office Wall Into A Touch Screen

The Ubi technology utilizes Microsoft’ Kinect camera to track hand movements over a display and input motion commands into existing platforms.

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Google: Microsoft, Not The Film Or Music Industry, Leads Copyright Takedown Requests

The most copyright takedown requests to Google come, by a staggering margin, from software giant Microsoft, rather than the film or music industry.

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Android, iOS Run 82 Percent Of Smartphones. What About The Other 18 Percent?

The mobile operating system scene is now dominated by Apple and Google, according to research firm IDC, with the two now accounting for a combined 82 percent of the market. The other 18 percent is a surprising mixture of has-beens, potential rivals, and unknowns.

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Job Opening Confirms Skype Integration For Next-Gen XBOX

A recently posted London job opening on the Microsoft Careers website confirms the development of a next generation XBOX with Skype integration. The job opening tasks a lead program manager with running a team to build and support the application through the post-launch period of the yet-to-be-named console.

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Kinect SDK Update Adds Face Tracking, Language Support, Overall Improvements

This week the Kinect for Windows team released a blog post detailing many new features available to developers in a new 1.5 software development kit update.

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Microsoft Opens Social Search Network So.cl To The Public

Today Microsoft has made So.cl available to the public — an experimental research project at the intersection between social networking and search.

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