Technology news. U.K. Retail outlet Comet is under fire from Microsoft for allegedly selling 94,000 pirated copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista recovery disks that they personally bundled with each computer purchase. Comet was allegedly producing the recovery disks at a factory in Hampshire. Comet who are currently owned by French retail company Kesa Electricals PLC, is reportedly in the process being [...]
A vast number of people on earth have technological items which are based on one or more patents. Patents are a form of intellectual property. For the term of the patent, the patent’s owner has the full right to control its use as he sees fit. Sometimes companies will devise their own technology as a [...]
Microsoft and Samsung Electronics have struck a deal today where Microsoft has agreed to share its patents with Samsung, in return for royalties on each Samsung Android handset which uses the patents sold. This news comes as the patent battle between Apple and Samsung intensifies and this recent get together between good old Sammy and [...]
Due to an internal software error Microsoft has had to admit that some Xbox Live users have been banned unfairly within the last few weeks, with users being banned just like those who intentionally modify their gaming consoles for Xbox Live. The users, who have now had their accounts re-instated or are in the process [...]
Have you ever booted up your PC only to get a black screen? When this happens, something’s clearly wrong, so you’ve probably tried a number of steps to get your PC running again. But what should you do if those solutions don’t help? Try using Microsoft’s System Sweeper to get rid of the malware that’s [...]
When I say the word ‘Microsoft’ what do you think of? Well for most people a grey company with rather unexciting marketing and products which, whilst strong, don’t really connect with the vast majority of the UK population will come to mind. Over the last 6 months however Microsoft have really changed my own perception [...]
Any thoughts people around the world have had surrounding a potential Xbox handheld gaming console to compete with the soon to be PS Vita and already on the market 3DS may be stopped now, or at least it would appear, after Microsoft COO Dennis Durkin has been cited as saying the market is a “a [...]
Following on from our previous coverage regarding Nokia deciding to opt for Windows Phone 7 as the operating system of choice for their smartphones, and recent rumours of a Microsoft Nokia buyout, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop has hit back and denied claims that Nokia is to sell up soon, going even further and calling all [...]
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