Google’s hugely popular Calendar service works with with an array of desktop applications and mobile devices including iCal, iPhone and iPad, Blackberry, Android, Nokia/Symbian, and Windows Mobile phones, but a notable absentee was support for Outlook 2010.
As world domination goes, this is almost as good as it gets for Googlem with the company currently boasting an incredible mobile search market share of 98.29%.
If you thought Apple’s last quarter earnings of $15.7bn were obscenely high, then you’ll find Microsoft’s latest tally positively indecent, with the company announcing record-breaking fourth-quarter revenue of an eye watering $16.04 billion.
They’ve barely been out six months, but Microsoft has already decided to scrap the entire project and pulled the plug on its range of “social” handsets which had started with the Microsoft Kin One and Microsoft Kin Two.
Like Billy Whizz on a bag of Columbian marching powder, Google’s internet browser Chrome has zipped past Apple’s Safari for the first time in the US to grab third place in the browser market.
The web may be endlessly buzzing with stories about the iThis, the iThat, Google, Facebook and Twitter, but the team at Microsoft have just coughed loudly and kicked over a big sheet of stats to remind us all who the boss is around these parts.
Microsoft has officially announced Project Kinect, their new motion-sensor peripheral for the Xbox 360.
Formerly known as Project Natal, the Kinect is the revolutionary control system for video games using a camera, motion-sensors, microphones and advanced software to allow Xbox 360 owners to play games without having to plug in traditional control pads.
After the relentless horrors of Vista – an operating system so annoying that we came close to lobbing our PC into the canal in frustration – we’ve rather enjoyed our time with Windows 7, finding it to be stable, reliable and pleasant to use OS.
Once the mighty, all-conquering colossus of internet browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to lose its market share, with new data on browser use trends revealing that it’s now used by less than 6 out of 10 surfers.
So, it turned out to be one long tease from Microsoft.
After setting the tech world ablaze with tempting, tantalising video titbits of its sensational-looking Courier concept, Microsoft has pulled the plug on the dual-screen dreamboat device.
With the beastly, clunky mess of the Windows Mobile operating system sending frustrated punters fleeing to more user friendly platforms for years, Microsoft has some considerable ground to catch up with in the mobile arena.
We’d more or less written them off until we saw the press releases for their new Windows Phone 7 operating system, an exciting OS rewritten from the ground up for the next generation of smartphones.
Facebook is lining itself up to become the glue that bonds the web together with the announced introduction of its universal “like” button.
It sounds a simple enough proposition letting web publishers add a Facebook ‘like’ button to their websites, but its implications are massive.
It’s a hideously blurry video alright, but this seven minute clip does a great job of showing off some of the innovative features of Microsoft’s new Kin handsets.
We have to say we’re pretty impressed too.
Microsoft have announced their Kin One and Kin Two Windows handsets, aimed firmly at the social networking set.
Microsoft has slipped out a new version of Bing for the iPhone and iPod touch, adding a number of stability fixes, new features and usability tweaks.
There’s already been a million downloads of the Bing app for iPhone, and Microsoft’s ‘Bing for Mobile’ dude Florian Voss invited users to submit their feedback for the latest version.
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