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Could the Next Xbox Have 'Holodeck' Technology?

'Immersive' and 'interactive' the key words to recent patents

(Newser) - Microsoft recently patented a next-generation video game system that sounds a lot like the start of a Star Trek-style "holodeck," reports NBC News . Pictures filed with the patent show a device that projects images on the walls of the room around the game system, along with a "...

Samsung's New Line Rolls Dice on Windows

Phonemaker unveils new phone, tablet using Microsoft OS instead of Android

(Newser) - Samsung unveiled a slate of new products today, including some that (gasp!) don't run on Android. The electronics company showed off a new line of Windows 8-based products, including a 10.1-inch tablet and a 4.8-inch smartphone, the Wall Street Journal reports. "It's highly likely...

For First Time in 25 Years, Microsoft Updates Logo

New logo coincides with new and updated products

(Newser) - Microsoft has used the same logo since 1987, but finally unveiled a new one today at the opening of a Boston Microsoft store. The company is launching new or considerably updated versions of almost all its products, so "we felt it was a good time to express the newness...

Microsoft, NYPD Create Surveillance Network

NYPD to get a cut of profits from sales of system to other cities

(Newser) - The NYPD has teamed up with Microsoft to create a citywide terror and crimefighting surveillance system that the partners plan to sell to other cities around the world. The system, which the Guardian likens to the data screens in Minority Report, collects data from thousands of video cameras, radiation detectors,...

Apple Considers Big Investment in Twitter

New York Times: Company is trying to catch up in social media

(Newser) - Google has Google Plus, Microsoft has a stake in Facebook, and Apple has ... Ping? OK, Ping has been mostly a disaster , which is why Apple is on the hunt for a new social network partner and it looks like Twitter might be its best bet, reports the New York Times...

Microsoft Posts First Loss; Google's Earnings Rise

Software maker has never had a quarterly loss before

(Newser) - Two different outcomes today for two tech giants:
  • Microsoft: The company said that an accounting adjustment to reflect a weak online ad business led to its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company. Microsoft took a $6.2 billion charge because its 2007 purchase of online
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Microsoft, NBC Breakup Complete

MSNBC.com now NBCNews.com

(Newser) - The long-rumored media breakup has finally come to pass: NBC News and Microsoft have called it quits on joint venture MSNBC.com, reports the New York Times . Sixteen years after the pioneering partnership began, NBC parent company Comcast bought out Microsoft's 50% stake, reportedly for $300 million. Indeed, trips...

NBC May Buy Microsoft's Share of MSNBC.com

Move would end long online partnership at popular website

(Newser) - NBC News is negotiating to buy Microsoft's portion of MSNBC.com, potentially severing a joint venture that began nearly 17 years ago. An NBC News spokeswoman said by email that "conversations are taking place," but "there is no deal." Microsoft declined to comment. (At the...

Apple Preps 'iPad Mini': Reports

Cheaper tablet would have smaller screen

(Newser) - Looks like Applephiles will soon have one more gadget to add to their collection of must-have gear. Two insiders tell Bloomberg that a "mini" iPad is in the works, and should arrive by the end of this year. The planned tablet—intended to help battle competition from Google, Amazon,...

Microsoft Taking $6.2B Write Down

aQuantive purchase failed to boost online advertising revenue

(Newser) - Microsoft is absorbing a $6.2 billion charge to reflect its inability to produce more revenue from an online ad service that it bought nearly five years ago. The non-cash charge announced today could saddle Microsoft Corp. for its fiscal fourth quarter ending in June. Analysts polled by FactSet had...

Tech Moguls: Modern-Day Robber Barons

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos equally big on biz, not values

(Newser) - Ten of the world's richest 100 people have ruthlessly siphoned their billions from IT, making today's tech moguls the equivalent of the infamous capitalist robber-barons of last century, like John Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie, writes John Naughton in the Guardian . From Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg to Sergey...

Greek Gunmen Drive Van Into Microsoft HQ

Latest in series of attacks on symbols of power in Greece

(Newser) - If idle hands are the devil's hands, Greece is finding out the hard way: Gunmen this morning stormed Microsoft's Athens headquarters, ramming the building with a gasoline-laden van before setting fire to it. The attack injured no one, but heavily damaged the building's first floor and shut...

Microsoft Buying Yammer for $1.2B
 Microsoft Buying
Yammer for $1.2B
Jun 25, 2012 3:44 PM CDT

Microsoft Buying Yammer for $1.2B

Facebook-like startup offers social networking for the business world

(Newser) - Microsoft is paying $1.2 billion to buy Yammer, an Internet startup that has built a social network similar to Facebook for the business world. The deal announced today comes nearly two weeks after word of Microsoft's negotiations with Yammer first leaked out in published reports. Yammer provides ways...

Microsoft Unveils 'Surface' Tablet

CEO Steve Ballmer shows off tablet with multi-touch keyboard

(Newser) - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the company's uber-hyped new tablet at an event in Los Angeles today: the Microsoft Surface. Windows division President Steven Sinofsky ran down the details, MSNBC and Forbes report:
  • A magnetic, clip-on cover includes a multi-touch keyboard and trackpad, which Sinofsky says is twice as
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Germany Bans Xbox, Windows 7

But Microsoft says it doesn't have to pull products yet

(Newser) - If you live in Germany and you like Microsoft products, you may want to stock up: A court ordered today that Microsoft remove Xbox 360 and Windows 7 from shelves, after ruling that Microsoft had infringed on Motorola Mobility's patents. But nothing will be pulled yet, Microsoft says, because...

Microsoft Joins Barnes & Noble in E-Book War

Invests $300M in Nook-based subsidiary

(Newser) - There's a new major player in the battle for the e-book market. Microsoft is investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary devoted to the bookseller's Nook e-reader plus its College division. Microsoft will have a 17.6% stake in the company (currently dubbed "Newco"...

Working at Microsoft Is Hell
 Working at Microsoft Is Hell 
OPINION
Apr 23, 2012 1:58 PM CDT

Working at Microsoft Is Hell

Former employee Max Zografos recounts his 5-year stint

(Newser) - Max Zografos was once called the "Microsoft man" by lecturers at his university as he hawked evaluation copies of Windows 2000 and bragged about his Microsoft summer internship. He drank "as much of the Microsoft Kool-Aid" as he could, he writes on TechCrunch , but once he became a...

Facebook to Buy $550M in Patents From Microsoft

Result: Facebook gets 650 AOL patents

(Newser) - Earlier this month, AOL agreed to sell Microsoft 925 patents and patent applications for just north of $1 billion; now another tech giant is getting a piece of the action. Facebook has pledged to buy some 650 of those patents, or $550 million worth. In the deal, Facebook also gets...

'iPad Mini' Coming for Less Than $300

And to think, Microsoft's new tablets are right around the corner

(Newser) - Cue the agonizing groans at Microsoft: Apple is planning a new entry-level iPad for later this year designed to fend off the coming barrage of Windows 8 tablets , reports Fox Business . According to a Chinese-language news site, some 6 million "iPad minis" will come out in the third quarter...

Big Shareholder to AOL: That $1B Sale? Not Cutting It

Starboard Value continues to have 'serious concerns'

(Newser) - AOL's $1 billion deal to sell patents to Microsoft is a good first step, but major shareholder Starboard Value still has "serious concerns" about AOL's "poor operating performance," the activist hedge fund says in a letter to the AOL board. For that reason, Starboard Value...

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