Microsoft wins an Emmy Award for Skype
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) yesterday a ounced the recipients of the 69th A ual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. Microsoft Skype won an Emmy Award for “Development of Integrated Consumer Video Conferencing Service into Broadcast Production Environments and Workflo...
Cortana for Android updated, now “stabilized”
Cortana is in many cases the glue which holds Microsoft’s cross platform efforts together. Microsoft has now posted an updated for the Cortana for Android beta app, taking it to version 2.9.3. The update does not bring any new features, but does improve the stability of what can be quite a buggy app...
Great news! Cortana will now work with the Amazon Alexa!
Amazon has a ounced that the Alexa voice assistant will soon offer a Cortana skill, allowing Echo owners to access information which is only available via Microsoft’s own voice assistant service. Users will be able to say “Alexa, Open Cortana” followed by their command such as “When is the next budg...
Dell launches new premium tier support channel for its products
Dell is today launching a new premium tier support cha el for its hardware at IFA. The company today introduced its new Premium Support Plus service, which will offer top tier customer service to owners of Dell’s XPS and Inspiron devices. The company is also offering Premium Support Plus for its Ali...
Outlook’s Focused Inbox finally lands on Windows 10 Mobile
Microsoft is finally bringing Outlook’s Focused Inbox feature to Windows 10 Mobile devices. The company started testing Outlook on Windows 10 PCs as early as February of this year, and it’s been gradually rolling the feature out to more users over the past few months. While you would expect the feat...
Get your contracts ready: iPhone 8 launch date leaked
It’s that time of the year again: new iPhones are coming. Apple usually launches its new line of hardware in September of every year, and this time the company isn’t doing anything different. The company also has a lot of new things to a ounce this time around, including three new iPhone devices. Wh...
SDK confirms Fitbit Ionic supports Windows Phone
Fitbit launched their first smartwatch, the Fitbit Ionic today, and while the device was always expected to be cross-platform the company did not explicitly confirm support for Windows Phone/ Windows 10 Mobile. Now in the SDK the company clearly states that Windows Phone will form part of their plat...