It's been a massive year in the tech world, with so many huge stories coming out of everyone's favorite companies. Be it Apple, Google, Microsoft or one of the many other players in the space, someone, somewhere has been busy making the news.
Sixty seconds seems like a relatively small period of time, if you asked me what I believe I could achieve in a sixty second time frame I would probably admit to it being not very much. So just what does happen around the world in one single minute?
Microsoft is on something of an app releasing bender of late. If they aren't releasing new iPhone and Android apps or games, then they are bringing new apps to their own also-ran mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.
The holidays are coming, and for most us that means time off work, school, college or whatever other activity takes up most of your normal daily routine. Aside from eating, drinking and generally being merry, how are we supposed to adequately fill our relaxation time? Step forward, Microsoft with the announcement that they will be offering Xbox 360 owners special price cuts on Xbox LIVE Arcade games for the next twelve days in the run up to 2012.
We've been hearing from various different sources and tech sites around the web that Microsoft may, or may not be working on bringing the Xbox 360's replacement to the market as soon as some time during 2012. We weren't really sure about that here at Redmond Pie, especially considering Microsoft's console was expected to go on for a little while longer than that.
A new report published by Nielsen offers a lot of insight into smartphone usage in the US. Some of the findings are particularly interesting because of how users trends are separated by age group. For example, the majority of 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 year olds now own smartphones: 53% and 64% respectively. We’ll cover the rest of the findings one by one.
Microsoft is on a roll these day! First, they pushed out the official My Xbox LIVE app for the iPhone and iPad, then they released Kinectimals; which is the first game ever by Microsoft to land on iOS, then they released SkyDrive for iPhone, and now they’ve pushed out a big treat for all Halo: Reach fans out there.
Nokia plans on creating a limited number of handsets inspired by the newer Batman franchise. The Lumia 800 will feature a laser-etched Batman logo on the back of the device.
Things just got very interesting in the world of cloud storage, especially if you own an iPhone. Microsoft has today released a new 'SkyDrive' app for both Windows Phone and iPhone, bringing iCloud and Dropbox-like file management and syncing to Microsoft's own mobile operating system as well as Apple's hugely successful iOS.
Microsoft today gave their OneNote iOS app an update to version number 1.3, and in the process also added iPad support to its note-taking application.
