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Apr302015 by 1 Comment

Review: Microsoft Lumia 640 – Good budget phone

Technology

The new flagship from the stable of Microsoft is considered as one of the best smartphones currently available in the market in terms of screen and camera. More to this, there is added advantage to buying it is swappable back panel for fresh color. And no doubt the Windows Phone software has now become easier than before to use. However, there's bad aspect too about the Microsoft Lumia 640. For selfie lovers the device cannot be the best choice as it comes with very poor resolution front camera. Apart from this, the battery life is learned to be short and of course there are far less apps available on the OS platform compared to that of Android and iOS. Cross checking few of the leading tech websites for a ranking the Microsoft Lumia 640 seems worth buying to some extent as desig...

Jan292015 by No Comments

Amazon To Step Into Work Mail, Calendar Segment Like Microsoft, Google

Technology

Amazon is looking ahead to compete with Google and Microsoft in the workmail service. Currently the e-mail and calendar segment is dominated by Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Amazon is starting these two services for professionals. Its service is dubbed as WorkMail and the retail giant says it will compete with Google's Apps and Microsoft's Outlook for Work to make it daily point of contact with its customers. The service will be built by its technical team who handles the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing segment. With this service the retail giant will also be offering e file-storage service to its customers. This service is named as Zocalo. It is estimated the cloud-based email services market across the world was worth $6.3 billion in 2014 and by 2018 it will increas...

Jan262015 by No Comments

Microsoft Releases New Killer Instinct Trailer

Gaming

Here comes a new teaser of Killer Instinct. Microsoft has released a fresh trailer of it. It shows the fifth character which will be joining the second season of it. He is named Omen, Herald of Gargos. At the end of the trailer next fighter joining the game is seen. He is named Goem and is apparently huge. Not much is known about him. Into the teaser he is seen busting through the wall around the 1:45 mark. Microsoft has been revealing characters of the fighting game at regular intervals and so it is expected some more information will arrive in next few weeks. Omen will come for free for the owners of Ultra Edition and Combo Breaker on January 30 and February 5 respectively. The character has been seen earlier too. It will be a bonus character. This mean he will not be includ...

Jan192015 by No Comments

Xbox One Outsells PS4 In November And December

Gaming

Even though the latest gaming console of Microsoft has outsold rival PlayStation 4 for November and December last year in the US, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer said there is still more work to do. The top boss took to Twitter to thank fans for the grand success of Xbox One and said it was a good holiday. He thanked everyone for their support in making the console best selling. Spencer wrote, "Most important thing was Xbox fans sticking with us, they kept believing." However, a fan sang a different tune and said even though Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 in the last two months of 2014 but in reality the Sony's console was top-selling for the entire year. The Microsoft boss replied to the fan in a positive way saying Sony's PlayStation 4 too is doing very well and this is a good...