5 posts and columns on code name

Exclusive: Facebook and Skype Readying Deep Integration Partnership

in News on September 29, 2010 at 12:34 am PT

You didn’t think Facebook would integrate with Google Voice, did you? Actually, according to sources close to the situation, Facebook and Skype are poised to announce a significant and wide-ranging partnership that will include integration of SMS and Facebook Connect, as well as voice chat. The move by the pair–which have tested small cross-promotions before–is a natural one for the social networking giant, which is aiming to be the central communications and messaging platform for its users, across a range of media.

From the Branding Geniuses Who Brought You Zune, Bing and Kin: Kinect for Xbox 360

in News on June 14, 2010 at 5:55 am PT

Microsoft’s Project Natal motion-controlled gaming system has a new name, Kinect for Xbox 360, and an official release date: November 4, 2010.

Snow Leopard, Windows 7 and Netbooks

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on September 2, 2009 at 2:56 pm PT

Walt answers reader questions about running Snow Leopard on PowerPC Macintoshes, the Windows 7 name, and sharing files with netbooks.

Boola, Boola!: Yahoo Marketing Head's Cheerleading Memo Post-MicroHoo

in News on August 12, 2009 at 1:07 pm PT

BoomTown just got this interesting memo that Yahoo CMO Elisa Steele sent out to her staff immediately in the wake of the deal for Microsoft to take over Yahoo’s search technology business two weeks ago. I render it unto you, dear readers, since it shows just how intent the top managers of Yahoo are, especially internally, in reassuring those concerned that Yahoo had not just gutted itself and how it would remain as innovative as ever. Also amusing–for reasons I cannot understand since it is an internal memo–is the use of the code name for Yahoo, which is called Yale, after the famous university in New Haven, Conn.
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Stink the Pink

in News on April 28, 2009 at 1:53 pm PT

As if the Zune weren’t embarrassing enough… Microsoft and Verizon are reportedly discussing a touchscreen multimedia cellphone that could launch on the carrier’s network in 2010. The project is codenamed “Pink” and will apparently involve some ungodly combination of Windows Mobile and Zune software.
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