Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

From Friendster to App.net, social networks have come a long way over the last ten years. Now, Microsoft is re-launching its own social site in a bid to sign up more users.   Microsoft’s social network, Socl, is a visual network that’s been around since May. In its primitive state, it was only open to… Continue reading →

Recently Microsoft and Yahoo! launched two potentially groundbreaking products. Microsoft’s SmartGlass technology enables an enhanced, connected experience with Xbox content while Yahoo!’s Axis moves search in a more efficient, synchronized and vis…

Well it’s been a bad week for Microsoft who have been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. What should have been a good news story last week turned into a media debacle when Microsoft announced its much talked about new Windows 8 Tablet ‘Surface’. While it was speculated to be next big thing [...]

The long awaited Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is finally available in the UK this week but so far very few have actually seen it. Samsung announced its launch of the smartphone operating system for the Galaxy S II on the 19th March, but it is being held up by UK mobile operators who are [...]

In Part 2 of this interview we recorded back in August, Microsoft TAG’s then Marketing Director, Jeff Somers talked us through some inspiring case studies of brands who are successfully creating and deploying killer mobile campaigns enhanced and tracked with the Microsoft TAG format. When we recorded this, these were some of their latest campaigns [...]

Discover  Microsoft TAG: The next generation technology for your mobile campaigns -Part 1 Back in August Ciaran spoke with Microsoft,  about TAG, Microsoft’s free  eye catching  mobile 2d code which is setting the standard in the race  to engage with smartphone users. With  Microsoft TAG you can  personalise the customer experience while building your brand [...]

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi. With so much being written and parroted in the media about Carol Bartz’s abrasive style, her inability to achieve the goals set for her by Yahoo!’s board, and who…

Microsoft has navigated its final hurdle this week in its acquisition of Skype when it was informed that the European Comission had approved the £5.5billion proposal. The approval comes after the deal already received the thumbs up from the US and paves the way now for Microsoft to bring Skype in as a division of [...]

  Microsoft announces Window 8 operating system. Windows has previewed its new operating system which it claims is a significant step forward from Windows 7, and is now fully designed to work as well on tablet as it does on desktop. Previous versions of Windows have not run well on tablet, though its desktop performance [...]

As an information architect who spends a fair amount of time simplifying legal agreements and disclosures, I’ve developed a rather peculiar interest in these artifacts that each of us collect as we go about our lives. And because the world we live…