Five years after its launch, Amazon has decided to end its Fire tablet live video support service, Mayday. The feature will be discontinued this month according to a customer support page.
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The state capital of the United States is filing a lawsuit against the two conglomerates for allegedly violating campaign finance law. The state seeks penalties and an injuction on the two companies.
Ninja Theory - the developer (and publisher) behind the upcoming Xbox title, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has vowed to donate $25,000 if its title moves 50k units within the first week.
Having garnered over 3100 signatures, a petition by Google employees requests CEO Sundar Pichai to not lead the company into "The Business of War" by being a part of Project Maven- a Pentagon program.
Announced at CES this year, the Vive Pro will begin shipping in April. The original Vive's price has dropped a hundred bucks to $499 and will remain available to purchase for the foreseeable future.
PUBG has shown strong numbers ever since its launch through the Xbox Game Preview program back in December. The game crossed the 4 million player mark on the Xbox console in January.
The Chicago-based company has reportedly laid off half of its engineering workforce and canceled the upcoming Moto X5. The company is also be scaling back on Moto mods focusing on the profitable ones.
Amazon claims that the digital assistant sometimes mistakenly hears the phrase, "Alexa, laugh", which leads to her laughing - an occurrence that several users have experienced over the past few weeks.
The PlayStation 4 timed-exclusive from last year, Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, will be releasing on Nintendo Switch, PC, and Xbox One in July this year and can be pre-ordered right now.
In its annual audit of working conditions among its suppliers, Apple found that the environmental and labor violations had doubled over the previous year. The company found 44 core violations in 2017.
Two independent Israeli researchers have found a loophole with Microsoft's digital assistant- Cortana. The assistant can be used by anyone with malicious intent to bypass a locked PC.
Microsoft and its partner OEMs introduced several budget devices last year that has helped its market share in the K-12 education market, which grew 6.5 percent in the sub-$300 category.
The Redmond firm has announced its Microsoft 365 suite for the U.S. Government, which offers Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), and Windows 10 for the organizations.
The Seattle-based tech giant has been in talks with banks such as JP Morgan Chase to build a checking accounts-like facility targeted at a younger demographic and customers without bank accounts.
Microsoft recently trademarked "Mixplay", which might be a play on the word Mixer- a streaming service that the company already owns. The trademark points to a video editing software for gamers.
The retailer is closing about 250 mobile stores in the U.S. by the end of May. Best Buy claims that the operating costs for the smaller stores were difficult to overcome relative to the bigger stores.
The social media platform has released "bookmarks" feature for mobile users, which allows them to save the tweets for future references. The functionality has been in testing since November last year.
Google's premier phone hardware has doubled its sales over the previous year. Over 3.9 million Pixel devices were sold in 2017. In comparison, Apple sold more than 77 million units in the same period.
The Mozilla executive expressed her concern over the security of the contentious biometric ID system in India. The open letter appeared as a full-page advertisement on one of India's leading dailies.
The company has promised that it remains committed to Cortana and the assistant will be coming to more devices throughout this year. The OEMs investing in the service include Qualcomm and Synaptics.
James Damore, the author of the infamous anti-diversity letter was unceremoniously fired from the company. Now, he is suing the corporation for its "discrimination" against conservative white males.
Microsoft officially put its Groove music streaming service out to pasture on January 1st. As a result, the company's digital assistant lost the ability to identify songs vis-Ã -vis Shazam.
Many OEMs launched several headsets under the Windows Mixed Reality ecosystem including HP, Acer, and Dell. A couple of months ago, Microsoft announced SteamVR compatibility for the platform.
A few months ago, Microsoft and Amazon announced a unique partnership that aimed to integrate Cortana and Alexa. The companies have now missed the original deadline but remain optimistic.
The search engine giant has, in the past, used two methods ("Double Irish" and "Dutch Sandwich") to protect its international profits from taxation. This move saved Google over $3 billion in taxes.
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A new update to the Windows Phone Internals tool for Microsoft's now-defunct Lumia seems to have breathed new life into the smartphones. Whether there's anyone left to use the tool remains to be seen.
Microsoft has some great ongoing Black Friday deals which include Xbox Game Pass subscription for a month at $1. Now, the company has added games such as Gears of War 4 and Mass Effect to the service.
The Redmond company has decided to forgo the bland design that Cortana currently embodies. The corporation may take a leaf out of its rival, Apple's book to reinvigorate its search UI.
The game, set in an alternate universe where Nazis won the war, has political, social, and self-reflective overtones. Wolfenstein II sets out to charter an ambitious course of subtlety and violence.
According to WikiLeaks' latest report, the CIA used seemingly harmless domains as a facade to hide its 'Hive' communications platform that enabled the covert exfiltration of data from target machines.
According to reports, GameStop has sold out nearly all the initial stock of the Xbox One X within 24 hours of the launch. The retail chain is working with Microsoft to get newer stock soon.
Rachel and Chloe, still reeling from the events of the previous night have to deal with the consequences of their actions. The second episode is easily one of the most captivating stories in a game.
The highly-anticipated port will land on Microsoft's console on December 12 for $29.99, said Mike Ybarra on Twitter. The extremely popular game was announced for the platform at E3 this year.
The Xbox One X will become available to the public starting November 7, 2017. Questions were cast on the availability of the One X enhanced titles. Xbox's Albert Penello has cleared the air a bit.
One of the better-known mobile game developers: Gameloft; has finally folded on Microsoft's more-or-less dead mobile platform. The decision came after Microsoft discontinued W10M's development.
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A New Zealand-based wireless charging company was bought by Apple for an undisclosed sum, an interesting move in light of the release of the iPhone X and iPhone 8 which include wireless charging.
As Ubuntu swerves into the mainstream, one of the harder decisions that Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the OS, has had to take is the abandonment of Unity. The executive explains the notion behind it.
Announced at E3, backward compatibility with Original Xbox games has finally reached the Xbox One's shores. Games including Crimson Skies, Psychonauts, and 11 more games are now playable.
In an unprecedented feat, Halo's premier program for indie developers has amassed over half a billion dollars in sales since its launch in 2013. Most of the games Xbox showed at E3 were indie titles.
After a gap of over 17 years, the Redmond giant has managed to cross the $600 billion mark. Back in 2000, at the peak of the dot-com era, Microsoft had for the first time hit the milestone.
Windows 10 will soon start nagging you to switch from local account to Microsoft Account
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