Zune services - yes. Multitouch - yes. New user interface to make things look fancier - yes. Proper support for mobile gaming - no. At least (former) main blogger of Microsoft thinks so, because he got such information from his friends at Microsoft:
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Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Officially Arrives..
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Now that phones are appearing with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on board, it's only right that we take a deeper look at some of the design tweaks. Our gallery shows some of the improvements. For a start the bottom of the screen has an added bar with some buttons you can press easily. This should, in theory, mean the end of the stylus for most people. ...
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Mark Steven Kirk, a centrist Republican, is set to face Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer, in November.
 
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It certainly took them long enough, but Olympus has finally (finally!) introduced a Micro Four Thirds camera with a price tag that's a little closer to earth. If you'll recall, both of the previous PENs cost upwards of $750, but the E-PL1 touts a much more reasonable MSRP of $599.99. And that doesn't mean Olympus has been stingy on features. Nope,
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NYT
The outreach is a marked shift in White House strategy intended to share the burden of governing and force Republicans to make compromises or be portrayed as obstructionist.
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The giant insurer and recipient of the biggest government bailout in history agreed to cut its next round of bonuses by $20 million.
Some really useful Exchange 2010 content just showed up. I really like the ‘How Do I’ short videos: For short demos on how to get started with Exchange 2010, check out the new library of “How Do I” videos: · Getting Started with Archiving in Exchange 2010 · Getting Started with Remote Management · Getting Started with Message Retention ...
A Stonington man convicted of possessing child pornography must pay about $200,000 in restitution to a woman photographed as a child while being sexually abused.
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Keeping with the pre-PMA announcements , Nikon also launched the S and L series of cams just now -- the S stands for "Style," and L stands for "Life." The Ls are the low-end of the bunch -- Life is apparently cheaper than Style -- and you've got two choices: the $280 L110 superzoom, which has a 15x optical zoom lens in front of a 12.3 megapixel ...
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Nikon Coolpix P100 joins the superzoom party at 26x
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Nikon just fired off its first pre-PMA camera announcement with the new Coolpix P100 superzoom, which packs a five-way stabilized 26x optical zoom lens in front of a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor with ISO 3200 sensitivity, Backside Illumination and Active D-Lighting. Yeah, it's not quite the 30x zoom from the new Olympus SP-800UX , but the lens can ...
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Engadget
In the market for new desktop machinery? Gateway 's gone ahead and given its gaming-centric FX series a facelift for the new year -- nothing Alienware-esque crazy, but we do like the accessible ports up top, right next to the control dial for LED-infused lighting effects. Enough about the superficial, let's go inside: a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ...
Proxy servers or settings can interfere with HTTP(S) traffic. Firefox has the option to use it's own settings, so even if a URL works there, Safari and other port 80, 443 requests will use proxy settings in Network Settings. Check there first! Many times using a Hosts file will help ensure the issue isn't a name resolution problem. To make ...
Mozilla announced last week the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia's Linux-based smartphone operating system. It offers adequate browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user interface that includes popular Firefox features like the AwesomeBar. This Firefox ...
February 2, 2010 - NokiaPressServices, Tags: location-based, mobile game, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia N97 mini, Ovi Maps With Ovi Maps Racing, the first location-based mobile game by Nokia, players can navigate and access their location, create a track and race around the block.
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Hi Everyone, Last week, 7 Developer products related hot-fix KB articles were released, 6 are for BizTalk Server and 1 is for Silverlight. Below are the details: BizTalk Server - 6 KB articles: · 977289 Data in the TDDS_FailedTrackingData table is not deleted by the DTA Purge and Archive SQL Server Agent job in BizTalk Server · 977329 Files are ...
If you're a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you'll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting ...
Until Microsoft laid him off in November, Don Dodge spent five years traveling the country, telling businesses why they should use Microsoft products. Now, in less than three months, Dodge has gone from die-hard Microsoft evangelist to Mac-using Google evangelist.
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We had a great response to our January giveaway . We're sending out e-mails to our winners today; if you commented on last month's post or are an Ars Premier Subscriber , keep an eye on your inbox (and possibly spam folder). Additionally, if you were one of the first 20 Ars Premier subscribers after we made the original posting on January 11 or ...
Microsoft earns several billions of dollars in pure profit, so calling it stupid would be, err., stupid but what Microsoft is doing here - one-sidedly after all (Nokia takes freebies equally fast as Windows Mobile MVPs do it) - is nothing but putting another nail into the coffin of Windows Mobile.
We are not interested in spreading rumors but the matter of fact is this: while in last years microsites (i.e. web pages) devoted to Mobile World Congress were online at microsoft.com already 2 months before the event, we have only 2 weeks ahead of the event and still nothing!
After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.
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Office 2010, the new version of the ubiquitous productivity suite being released in June, has hit the release candidate milestone, Microsoft said Tuesday.
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