Hot off the heels of the Windows Phone wedding spot, Microsoft is at it again, this time showing off the power of Windows 8 RT. The new ad takes quite a swipe at Apple’s iPad and even uses, what sounds like SIRI, to narrate the limitations of the iPad. The iPad is compared side by side of ASUS’s … Continue reading »
Augmented Reality for Windows Phone via Nokia LiveSight
Nokia’s recent updated to Here Maps as brought with it a new augmented reality offering called LiveSight. By selecting the LiveSight button in HERE Maps, users will be able to scan the surrounding area and pull up information regarding nearby locations such as phone numbers, addresses and ratings. Similar to Nokia’s City Lens app, LiveSight will recognize virtual signs attached to buildings viewed … Continue reading »
Windows Phone Compatible Smart Watch
Secret Labs, who also created the Netduino kit, is building a smart watch which will be the first to support Windows Phone as well as Android and iOS. The planned smart watch is promised to have a long battery life and a great developer environment via the Microsoft’s .Net Micro Framework. The smart watch’s connection to Windows Phone will be … Continue reading »
Microsoft’s Xbox One Announcement Overview
Today was a busy day for Microsoft as they revealed their next generation console, the XBOX One. The shiny black XBOX One, which only operates horizontally and looks more like a set-top box then console, comes with a slot-loading Blu-ray drive and is powered by a custom AMD created 40-nanometer chip with an 8-core CPU and GPU. The console also has a 500GB … Continue reading »