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Microsoft patents smart glasses
BBC News
Work on digital glasses that overlay information on top of the user's view of the world has been carried out by Microsoft. A patent granted to the US tech firm describes how the eyewear could be used to bring up statistics over a wearer's view of a ...

BBC News
Microsoft Reportedly Preps Xbox Set-Top-Box to Fight for Mainstream Consumers.
X-bit Labs
Microsoft Corp. is developing a set-top-box to compete for mainstream consumers. The STB will reportedly be released alongside the Xbox Next and will offer entertainment services as well as basic gaming technologies. The product will primarily fight ...
Microsoft's Surface is a workhorse
Boston Herald
Microsoft first tablet seems at first like a throwback to the first iPad. It's thick, heavy and rugged. But it's really doesn't have much in common with the first iPad or any Apple- or Google-powered tablet. It runs Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 ...
Black Friday Microsoft Surface Deals
Wireless HDTV News (blog)
In terms of Black Friday Microsoft Surface Deals, there might not appear at first glance to be much going on. Oddly enough, that's not entirely the case. Microsoft has chosen to offer a deal on the covers for the Surface Tablet alongside their other ...
Nokia Lumia 920 review - so near, and yet so far
Digital Spy
Alongside the HTC Windows Phone 8X, Nokia's Lumia 920 is the flagship handset for Microsoft's new Windows Phone 8 operating system. Finnish mobile giant Nokia has bet big on Windows Phone, being the only major operator to solely use the software on ...
Microsoft's Windows 8 Store now has over 20000 apps
HEXUS
Microsoft's Windows Store now has over 20,000 apps available for download. This milestone was breached on Tuesday and propels the company towards its target of reaching 100,000 apps in 90 days from GA. However unless the trend takes off ...
Microsoft: 'We're no longer just competing with console companies'
Examiner.com
Microsoft Game Studios is looking at the bigger picture, beyond just video games, according to Phil Harrison, Microsoft's vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business. "Our competitive landscape includes the likes of Google, the likes of ...

Examiner.com
G-Lab: Microsoft Kinect, Fall Test, Skyfire
Wired (blog)
Loading... There is no Interactive Transcript. Published on Nov 22, 2012 by wired. Gadget Lab 11.4.2010: This week's Gadget Lab podcast covers the release of Microsoft's Kinect, new products from our Fall Test product roundup, and the new Skyfire app.
Woz on Microsoft: Whoa! They really changed things drastically. Whoa!
Register
Quotw This was the week when HP finally realised that maybe slurping Autonomy a year ago wasn't such a good idea after all. Back in the days of Mad Leo Apotheker, HP agreed to fork out over $10bn for the Cambridge-based enterprise search and ...
Microsoft Awards HostForLife.eu Spotlight Status for The Best Windows and ASP ...
Equities.com
Microsoft awarded SPOTLIGHT status to HostForLife.eu Hosting Provider for providing superior ASP.NET and Windows Hosting service. This award is given to the most outstanding and excellent Windows and ASP.NET Hosting provider in European region.
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Appoints Wing As Vice President Of Research- MSFT ...
Galaxy Stocks
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced on Wednesday that it has appoints Jeannette Wing of Carnegie Mellon University as vice president and head of Microsoft Research International. Wing will be accountable for the firm's research labs in ...

Galaxy Stocks
Microsoft Touch Cover (for Surface)
PC Magazine
The Microsoft Touch Cover, as the name implies, is all about touch. In one instance it's a soft cover for the Microsoft Surface RT tablet ($699.00 direct) touch screen, putting the Surface RT to sleep when closed and waking it back up when opened. But ...
Microsoft patents AR glasses for live events
MyBroadband
Microsoft is researching its own augmented reality glasses technology, according to a patent filed by the company. The patent, "Event Augmentation with Real-Time Information", shows specially-designed eyewear that can overlay real-time data and display ...

MyBroadband
Windows 8: A soaraway Kinect? Or is it Red Ink Friday for Microsoft?
Register
It was just over two years ago Microsoft launched its hands-free game controller Kinect for the Xbox to wild and unexpected success. This was Microsoft's second foray into hardware, as an add-on to its first - the Xbox. Kinect sold in such numbers that ...
Microsoft reveals advantages of a connected workforce
e27
The younger demographics are one of the world's heaviest users of social technologies and platforms. As a result, companies have found benefit in using a different channel to bring them together through social tools. According to the Asia-wide IDC ...
Microsoft's Xbox TV set top box 'to launch in 2013'
Digital Spy
Citing sources "familiar" with Microsoft's plans, The Verge says that the box will provide a "low-cost alternative" to the Xbox, offering consumers a choice between a TV set top box and a full-blown games console. It would also compete with Apple TV ...
Microsoft patent application details head-mounted display used to augment live ...
Engadget
It's no secret that Microsoft has been experimenting plenty with wearable computing and augmented reality -- just take a look at some of Microsoft Research's projects -- but a patent application published today has offered a peek at one possible AR ...