Cortana: Microsoft’s Halo Effect
Virtual Assistants Become a Cross-Device UI Personal digital assistants are becoming a key competitive feature for smart device manufacturers — market players are supporting voice user interfaces (UIs) in the…
Microsoft Acquires Minecraft Maker Mojang for $2.5 Billion
An Opportunity for Microsoft to Expand Its Windows Ecosystem Yesterday, following a week of persistent rumours, Mojang — video game developer and creator of Minecraft — confirmed that it will…
MSN. Again.
Microsoft Refreshes Its MSN Brand Microsoft’s Web services have always been a moving target. They come, they go and they get rebranded, and their names and the services they provide…
The Market for Where-Ables
Android Wear to Support GPS. Offline Maps Absent. Yesterday two key engineers in Google’s Android team said that the wearable-optimised Android Wear platform will soon be upgraded to support GPS…