Windows Phone 8 Live Tile Advertising Could be Great for Consumers
Go to your Xbox360, log onto Xbox Live, and go to the bottom right hand corner of the first tile cluster and what do you see? An advertising live tile. A live tile whose sole purpose is to take up...
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Microsoft’s Metro is No More
Microsoft will no longer use the word “metro” to describe the live tile UI that it has been using for years now, since the Zune HD. This is a big hit to the companies branding as both windows 8 and...
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Windows Phone 8’s Start Screen: Opinions
We are, if rumors are to be believed, less than two short months away from an updated take on Windows Phone. With new improvements and additions like Wallet and the capability of native screen shots...
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Chase Bank App Now Available For Windows Phone
Windows Phone is still a long ways from catching up to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android marketplaces, but in terms of quality, Microsoft’s online app store is nearing parity with the other two. Today...
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Is Microsoft Creating a Cloud TV service?
In a recent jobs posting, it appears as though Microsoft is planning on creating a new cloud based TV service. The new service will not be the first time Microsoft enters the realm of Hollywood....
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Alpha Jax Gets the Xbox Live Upgrade Treatment This Week
If you have been a Windows Phone faithful since its introduction in 2010, you no doubt have seen or played the excellent Scrabble-like game Alpha Jax. The word-making game has been one of the few...
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Surface Pro Breakdown: Looking at the Real Numbers
The Surface Pro has finally been priced at $899 for a 64 Gb model and $999 for a 128 Gb model, and a lot of talk, both positive and negative, has been made about the price. The problem with most of the...
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Xbox Music gets a Play Limit
Something very interesting has come to our attention after playing with the free music streaming service known as Xbox Music. Apparently the free streaming service is not making Microsoft enough...
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Some of my favourite WP8.1 customisation apps
Creating a beautiful and functional start screen is surely the holy grail of any Windows Phone user. As a graphic designer and chronic pixel scrutiniser, its essential for me to have control over the...
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Reminder: Surface (Mini?) Event Livestream is available tomorrow.
The “small gathering” will be live streamed on http://www.microsoft.com/news tomorrow at 11am PDT and 4pm GMT respectively. The event is expected to introduce us to the Surface Mini, rumoured to...
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