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New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced last Friday that the NYPD is planning to outfit all 35,000 of their officers with a mobile ‘handheld device,’ aka a ‘smartphone’. The technology program; NYPD Mobility Initiative, will cost $160 million. As well as giving all the Police officers a smartphone,... Read more
Folks, there really has never been a better time to go out and purchase an Xbox One system. Last week, Techbeat reported that Microsoft was offering some special Assassin’s Creed Xbox One bundles for the holiday season. However, if you’re not at all a fan of Assassin’s Creed and were feeling... Read more
Know anyone who loves the Assassin’s Creed games and wants an Xbox One this holiday season? Getting an early start on this year’s Christmas season, Microsoft has announced a couple of really good bundle options when it comes to purchasing their newest gaming console. Beginning on 11/2/14 (a Sunday),... Read more
Everybody and their mother is jumping on the wearable bandwagon and Microsoft is no exception. Microsoft is planning to launch their own wearable fitness band in the foreseeable future. Forbes has reported the announcement is due “within the next few weeks.” Apparently sources have said the launch of Microsoft’s wearable fitness... Read more
Have you ever got lost in a game? What I mean by that is, have you ever been so immersed in a game that you lose track of time? I’m sure, if you play games, then all of you have. But what about spending two years on a game? Duncan... Read more
All eyes are on Microsoft next year, in 2011 the team screwed up by offering a mobile-like experience to Windows customers with Windows 8, alongside pricing it rather highly, compared to Apple who decided to drop the price of OS X and make it free to all desktop users... Read more
Microsoft Releases New Keyboard for Android Wear
News October 15, 2014
It looks like Microsoft’s smartwatch project is good few years away, with the company launching a new keyboard for Android Wear. This is after Satya Nadella cancelled all of Nokia’s Android devices, looking to keep the focus on Windows Phone. The Android Wear keyboard will let users write the... Read more
Microsoft Launches Project Spark
DevelopmentNews October 10, 2014
In the third quarter of 2013, Microsoft introduced to everybody, Project Spark. If you don’t know about Project Spark it is basically a tool that has been created by Microsoft to entice gamers on the Xbox One and Windows platforms to produce games of their own. There are lots of hit indie... Read more
Plex has a massive fan base. In fact, it’s huge, mainly due to Plex’s powerful and versatile streaming media capabilities. Doubtless you will have a few video files that are knocking about on your computer and with Plex you’ve got a reasonable chance that Plex will be able to... Read more
Microsoft Furthers Research into RoomAlive
News October 9, 2014
Microsoft’s RoomAlive could turn your entire room into an interactive gaming environment. Microsoft Research developed RoomAlive approximately two years ago but I guess the guys over at marketing took a while to change the name from Beamatron and later IllumiRoom until finally they came up with something half decent. The new demonstration video was... Read more
Microsoft Planning New Flagship Store In New York City
News October 3, 2014
Microsoft has announced it will be launching a flagship store in New York City. The store will hold all of Microsoft’s products and some from its third party partners in mobile, tablet and PC. This is as best a time as any for Microsoft to announce a flagship store,... Read more
Microsoft has officially announced Windows 10, not Windows 9 like most people were expecting. It looks to be a rather big update and at the event in San Francisco, Microsoft only revealed small parts of the new update. Windows 10 will be available for all types of devices, anything... Read more
Microsoft To Launch Mirroring Device Similar To Chromecast
News September 29, 2014
Last week it was reported that Microsoft was going to release an all-in-one universal keyboard that allows you to connect up to three devices at the same time. It was surprising, however, to learn the Microsoft product was going to be open to Android devices and iOS as well as Windows!... Read more
The Best & Worst Nokia Phones Ever Made
Mobile September 24, 2014
A Nokia mobile phone – we’ve all had one, some of you may even still have one somewhere, they are truly an important part of our technology history. Seeing as Nokia won’t be making anymore phones since its take over by Microsoft, we thought we’d take a trip down... Read more
iOS8 Glitch Spotted By Microsoft So They Up Storage On OneDrive To 30GB
News September 24, 2014
In the wake of iPhone 6, Microsoft is offering 30GB of OneDrive space for free through a limited-time offer. The technology giant had doubled its free OneDrive offer from 7.5GB to 15GB in June of this year, but they have now doubled it again to a fairly decent 30GB of... Read more
While the Xbox One has been available in the United States for almost a year, gamers in China haven’t been so lucky. In fact, they haven’t been lucky at all since the year 2000 in the video game department – that was when China decided to outlaw foreign video... Read more
Following the news that Microsoft is officially buying Minecraft for $2.5bn, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. Yet with millions of dedicated fans, this popular game has helped to create some of the most intricate and complicated designs ever seen. Check out our pick of the... Read more
Microsoft has officially acquired the studio behind Minecraft, Mojang, for $2.5 billion. This comes after weeks of speculation, with the Minecraft community going a little sour at the news a corporation will be picking them up. The news was broke in a video, by Xbox Chief Phil Spencer, explaining... Read more