ZTE has slashed the price of the ZTE Tania before it’s even come out, making it the cheapest Windows Phone handset on the market and the real start of Microsoft’s sneak attack on Android. Read more
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This week, Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo published a report claiming that the next Xbox may use a system to prevent used games from being played. It’s a tricky situation in itself: the used games market is huge, and doesn’t directly provide games publishers with any revenue, although the situation is far more complex than the likes of THQ would have you believe.
But it also points to something else further down the line: it’s no longer just Sony who wants to sell and send you console games directly over the internet. Microsoft wants in too. It’s a shame our shoddy broadband network won’t be up to the job.
Kinect games? Pah: it’s the mad Kinect hacks that make Microsoft’s motion sensor such an exciting piece of tech. Case in point: this amazing future mirror put together by the R&D team at the New York Times. Yes: the New York Times has an R&D department. Read more
We love it when tech companies stop playing nice. Remember the Samsung ad that mocked Apple fanboys last November? Now Microsoft’s got in the spirit, having released a video that directly attacks Google Docs. Read more
Over the next month, two new Windows Phones are set to go on sale in the UK: the colourful Nokia Lumia 710 and budget priced ZTE Tania. Neither alone will likely change the status quo at gunpoint, but they point to an extremely useful plan B that Microsoft has been working on: getting the price – and the experience – down to compete with the cheapest Android smartphones out there right now.
Last month, we gave you folks the chance to win an Xbox 360 with a whole sack of stash, including Kinect as well as limited edition Halo goodies. All you had to do was enter through Twitter. We’ve now picked a winner: step forward Matthew Tyrrell, a student from the University of East Anglia, and long time Dell Streak fanatic.
So you may have noticed the web kicking off about how you can now play addictive life-drainer Cut the Rope online for free. It’s part of an Internet Explorer marketing gimmick, but we’ve discovered a dirty secret behind the whole thing… Read more