Archive for the 'Microsoft' Tag

Another short post after the lengthy pieces of recent days. The BBC are developing a fabulous piece of software called ‘iPlayer’. It will let you watch BBC television and radio broadcasts in full over the internet for periods of time after their first airing. I want it now.

However, it appears that Microsoft have lobbied in [...]

This is partly in response to Ben O’Neill’s post on the Zune.

Microsoft have announced details of their forthcoming Zune media player.

I’ll quite looking forward to seeing what Microsoft come up with, not least because I think some well backed competition for the iPod is increasingly needed. Apple aren’t resting on their lorals, but they’re not [...]

Regarding the little things the computer does. Volumes controls and Bluetooth transfers.

At the beginning of February I wrote about the fact that it seemed impossible to test Microsoft’s IE7 beta legally and without hacks without making a large financial outlay for Virtual PC and a fresh Windows XP license.

Today, neatly coinciding with the release of the second beta 2 preview I stumbled upon my long discarded [...]

… A small, ugly tablet PC with pitiful 3 hour battery life. Awesome work guys.

Introducing the Q1, Dr David Steel, Samsung’s vice president of digital media business, said: This is a very good sign of convergence coming into the computer industry.Now the consumer has a single mobile computing device that combines the mobile functionality [...]