PowerPoint presentations have become the bane of the business world, as regular and dull as council tax, but you can inject some pizazz into your talk with Oxford’s Papershow pen, which lets you draw straight onto the screen in real time.
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We’ve heard loads about Microsoft’s next-gen operating system, Windows 7. It’s understood to support multi-touch Surface touchscreens, voice control, ultra-deep integration with Windows Live and come with fewer add-on apps to make it faster than ever.

All that’s missing now is a name, and Microsoft just confirmed that it’ll be called…

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We’re filing this in the “extremely dubious” drawer, but a Norwegian programmer is claiming to have created a system that “works like Bootcamp” to shoehorn Windows Mobile onto Apple’s iPhone.

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Well, according to Microsoft it does. The Tokyo Game Show this weekend has been a hotbed of Microsoft employee quotables, stats releases and game announcements on how well the Xbox 360 is doing over there. Here they all are in one easily digestible package:

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Here we go again. Despite persistent rumours about Microsoft releasing a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, or integrating the format into the console itself, the firm has declared yet again that it has no plans to do any such thing.

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After a last minute decision, no new Halo title was announced at E3 earlier this year. Instead Microsoft saved it for its TGS keynote. It’s not just an ordinary sequel either; it’s a Halo 3 spin-off, and it is expected to land in Fall 2009.

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Microsoft has proved the internet rumour-mill correct and officially announced that the New Xbox Experience (NXE) will go live on November 19^th.

NXE is the latest Xbox 360 Dashboard overhaul and the most ambitious so far. Apart from a major visual overhaul, the update will add new player Avatars, a Friends channel and an option to install games to the hard drive for faster load times.

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Wow, it must have been months since the last time an external Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360 was rumoured! Fortunately X-bit labs has stepped in to reignite speculation and even comes citing ‘market sources’ to back up its claims.

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