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Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the READ MORE...

Yahoo has announced that it is blocking sex searches for all those on the Indian subcontinent. Its decision came after a similar statement from Microsoft’s Bling, er, Bing last week.   Latest reports suggest that Yahoo search engine, Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and Flickr, recently made alteration to their setting by which Indian users will not be able to switch off the safe-search facility. Same type of blockage is also expected in READ MORE...

2009 was a fabulous year, from many memories of Windows 7 to Google Chrome OS release. From Bing gaining 10% marketshare to rumors of the Apple MAC tablet. It was all fantastic. But now 2010 is here, a new day, a new start a new beginning. So from all of here at The Technology Cafe, we wish you a very warm fuzzy 2010, which we pray would be filled with joys and happiness. We especially pray for those who have lost their lives in tragic events and READ MORE...

The idea of integrating Xbox LIVE into Windows Mobile has been bouncing around since Steve Ballmer’s CES 2009 keynote where he and his associates showed off Windows 7, Windows Mobile and the new Xbox Experience and promised that “Microsoft will connect your entertainment experience.”   Xbox LIVE integration may be the ace up Microsoft’s sleeve and may help bolster Windows Mobile’s position as a consumer oriented device. As Bill Gates READ MORE...

Well today, when I saw that the likes of Google, buying premium text links on its primal rival, Microsoft Bing, I was astonished. The fact of the matter was when I searched for U2 songs on Bing, the first result within sponsored links that came up was, www.Google.com/Music New expanded search results when you search for musicians on Google! Look at the top link in the above image. You can search for any music band and add the term songs to it. READ MORE...

The Microsoft Visualization Language (or the Vedea project) is a prototype of a new experimental language for creating interactive infographics, data visualizations and computational art. It is designed to be accessible to people who are either new to programming or whose primary domain of expertise is something other than programming. Vedea is designed to enable scientists and domain experts to create and incrementally refine interactive READ MORE...

As we near towards the Office 2010 being released with big fight of online Office supremacy being fought with Google, Microsoft is at it again, offering people discount at the end of the year. The new Office sales offer is called the “Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 No Better Time Promotion.” Under terms of the deal, Microsoft is enabling partners to offer customers 20 percent off the price of Office Professional Plus 2007. Those who take READ MORE...

  Is this WinMo7?     Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced Office Mobile 2010 Beta today, which we’ll cover in a later post.   Everything was kept close to the chest and nothing was revealed but on their very own “Top Ten Benefits of Office Mobile 2010” page the Office Mobile 2010 let slip a screenshot online. They’ve accidently included the screenshot you see above, the screenshot shows Sharepoint and within it you can READ MORE...

  Since yesterday we have been covering non-stop about the newly announced open source OS from Google (Google Chrome OS). We told you about it being based on Ubuntu, but the latest update is that it’s also based upon the popular debian Linux as well.   Many of our readers are curious how to download the OS itself and how to go about it. While many looking for more insights. So for all of you out there, we present to you videos and READ MORE...

Last March, at TED, when I saw for the first time how India’s own Pranav Mistry came up with his design gadget called the SixthSense that augmented reality, turning every day objects of life into usable controls such as your hands, Tshirts, or even your PaperPad.   We at The Technology Cafe, are pretty much excited how this could not only change how we interact with objects but how education could leverage such technology, especially in READ MORE...

This news is hot and fresh… Hold on to you pants people. We just got an update that Chrome OS is based on UBUNTU Karmic Koala. You can see and even look at the Source code of the upcoming Google Chrome OS here. We took some Screenshots of the legit files from the Original Official Chromium Site. Should we call it GOO-Buntu? Leave us your comments… READ MORE...

Since the first Microsoft Store launch 3 weeks ago in Scottsdale, we liked the idea of Microsoft interacting directly with the customer and presenting them Microsoft Solutions (OS, Office, Dev etc) with a human touch. But this particular Microsoft store went a mile extra to pump up employees and customers to be excited about Microsoft products. I call them “Dancing Oompa Loompas”  in the terms of the great British writer Roald Dahl, READ MORE...

Just yesterday we talked about Microsoft Bing gaining 10% market share in the US, after it’s release five months ago. Today we see again that bing is constantly trying to update its features which might help users to find relevant data quicker and easily with the launch of  ”latest posts from news sites” feature. As you can see, whenever you put a query related to a news site in the bing search bar, those sites, or feeds which READ MORE...

According to ComScore and qSearch, Microsoft’s retaliation against Google search, Bing has gained significant market share reaching out close to 10% market share of U.S. searches, thats 2 large points in five months. Clearly Microsoft must be doing something right. The good part coming from it’s recent deals with twitter and Facebook and then going on towards nutritional data search integration with Wolfram Alpha. The loser here is of READ MORE...

Now that’s a pretty big claim by Google.   From hiring Don Dodge to this, Google is doing everything to show Microsoft what’s it’s power is. In a year, most users including enterprises will have the choice to “get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to”, said Girouard, Google’s 3rd president along with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. That said, he expects Google Docs, to overthrow Microsoft Office in terms READ MORE...

Bing has fairly impressed many critics and as the holiday season approaches, Bing announces a $10K CashBack Sweepstakes contest in LA. So pack your bags and start purchasing. the offer is open only to legal residents of the US. Click on the image below, to enter the sweepstakes… Please Leave us your comments… READ MORE...

While most people from Microsoft are being kicked off, Microsoft is still making updates and enhancements to its careers website.  Today Microsoft has launched it’s new revamped and optimized careers website to mark the significance of how Microsoft and Your skills could render world class products. The new site has been built around you, the jobseeker. Not only is it easier to use, but it’s also much easier to search for jobs. Our new, more READ MORE...

The ambitious project to provide every citizen with a unique ID card would receive an initial funding of Rs 100 crore. The project would address security concerns and top IT firms like Infosys, Wipro, and TCS would get orders worth crores. It would be a giant leap in e-governance.   It appears that both Yahoo and Microsoft are ducking it out to help power the technology for India’s Unique Identification project.   Earlier this year, Microsoft READ MORE...

In 2008, Google got its logo on the rocket launching the GeoEye-1 satellite for collecting space-based imagery. This year, it’s Microsoft’s turn.     The Bing logo was recently spotted gracing the side of a rocket ship at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was the result of a new partnership with an imagery company called DigitalGlobe. Last week, the company was launching a new WorldView-2 satellite on a DeltaII rocket, the READ MORE...

I love the ad’s Microsoft is coming up with these days, be it for Bing or be it for Windows. Microsoft has made a difference not only to its product but its marketing campaign. And this time the strategy is focusing on the holidays that are coming soon, also targeting Microsoft’s own products such as the Xbox 360. So without further ado…   Please leave us your comments… READ MORE...

Microsoft on Monday as part of their ongoing collaboration with Facebook, released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk), enabling use of Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in conjunction with the Facebook social platform.       The toolkit is comprised of the following core assemblies:   [caption READ MORE...

Microsoft (MSFT) launched WebsiteSpark, a new program to provide web developers and designers free copies of Microsoft development tools, applications and server licenses for a period of three years. The program is the third and latest launch as part of the ’spark’ series of outreach and support programs designed to engage communities with new Microsoft products. The initial programs to launch were BizSpark, for startups, and DreamSpark, for READ MORE...