Tag Archive for 'software'
While I know it’s unlikely to have been prompted by my Touch HD review, it’s nice all the same to see that Microsoft are planning their own on-device Windows Mobile App Store. Speaking at an Australian developers event, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that the company would be soon launching a service that would allow [...]
Sprint has announced a partnership with 2D barcode specialists Scanbuy to put software capable of decoding the black & white symbols blocks onto select Sprint handsets. 2D barcodes can be used to encode web links, shortcuts to MP3s, video streams and personal profiles, and more, and with the ScanLife app Sprint customers will be able to quickly [...]
After a week or so of positive reports on Windows 7 pre-beta performance - with testers generally finding the upcoming OS, even in its current early state, besting Vista in real-world challenges such as start-up and friendliness to ageing or low-power hardware - we’re perhaps overdue a more critical one. InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy certainly delivers [...]
SlashGear reader Tony Reilly offered to preview the upcoming New Xbox Experience update for us, Microsoft’s update to the Xbox 360 GUI which will launch on November 19th.
The New Xbox Experience (NXE), unleashed on the public on November 19th, is the mother of all dashboard updates. Those of you out there that might have been [...]
Prepare, Mac faithful, to recoil in horror. Gearlog have taken the latest MacBook Pro and - either usefully or sacrilegiously, depending on your loyalties - installed the new pre-beta of Windows 7 on it. The Apple laptop was already set up to dual-boot into Vista, so Windows 7 was simply installed straight over the top.
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While some gamers are busy enjoying themselves with Guitar Hero: World Tour, which launched on Monday, others are experiencing huge problems with drum sensitivity. In some cases undersensitive, in others oversensitive, the only common theme is frustration. Now publisher Activision has announced a fix to allow the sensitivity of individual drum and cymbal pads to [...]
One of the more topical claims from Microsoft during the PDC was that Windows 7 would have no problems running on lower-spec hardware such as netbooks. Of course, there’s nothing like a challenge to get geeks motivated, so we’re starting to see the first installs of the upcoming OS on today’s budget ultraportable hardware. Laptop [...]








