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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 6, 2011 at 5:08 pm PT
Microsoft’s major software update for the Xbox continues to face delays. In a statement late this afternoon, Microsoft apologized and said that “within a few hours the first customers will begin to receive the update.” It’s unclear who will get the update because it is not based on geography. The new dashboard, which was supposed to launch this morning, will add both voice control and new content to the gaming console.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 6, 2011 at 10:33 am PT
Microsoft’s big Xbox refresh, slated to be released today, is facing a few last-minute hiccups.
Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm PT
Salesforce.com has bought Manymoon, the social productivity start-up.
The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but one source put the sale at upward of $25 million.
Manymoon makes one of the more popular tools on Google’s apps platform.
Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 5:39 am PT
In an interesting social enterprise move, popular social networking collaboration tool Seesmic is taking a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com, as well as from Softbank.
The San Francisco-based Seesmic has one of the top desktop and mobile applications for monitoring a consumer’s various feeds from Twitter, Facebook and more.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 31, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT
Aiming to turn the tables on Apple, Motorola is trying to pitch its upcoming Xoom tablet as an alternative to the dominant computing culture–the same tactic Apple once used against IBM.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 26, 2011 at 10:46 am PT
Twitter does indeed plan to roll out a self-serve ad platform this year. But it hasn’t done so yet, isn’t testing one and has yet to build the thing.
So says Twitter, which is publicly calling out a MediaPost report that says otherwise.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Perfect Market doesn’t promise to save the newspaper business. But the company says it can help papers wring more money out of the stuff they’re already making.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on November 23, 2010 at 3:26 pm PT
Xbox Kinect does well with games involving more natural gestures and motions, but its games using objects, like a bowling ball, need more work, says Katie.
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Voices in News on October 22, 2010 at 10:13 am PT
SCVNGR, hunting for ways to keep pace in the competitive social location space, today turned loose
freshly revamped versions of its iPhone and Android apps. SCVNGR stands out from the crowd by going beyond simple check-ins and emphasizing the game aspect by posing real-world challenges for users to complete. The new apps deliver a slicker dashboard, more real-world rewards for challenges, improved commenting and a mapping tool to find your friends.
John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2010 at 10:55 am PT
In the end, it wasn’t a revamped Events service that Facebook announced at its invite-only media event today. It wasn’t a “check-in” feature, a new iteration of Facebook Credits, a partnership with Skype or a showing of “The Social Network” with a frame-by-frame refutation by Mark Zuckerberg. In the end, it was a series of service enhancements–three, to be exact.
