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Xbox One: Digital Home Base for the Living Room
Though the Xbox One is still geared toward gamers, it will appeal to a broader audience with its variety of apps and ways of watching TV.
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Cisco Loses Microsoft-Skype Challenge in EU
Microsoft’s $8.5 billion takeover of Skype is not anticompetitive, says the EU.
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Microsoft Sells More Than Two Million Xbox Ones in First 18 Days
Here’s that sales stat we were waiting for: Microsoft announced today that it had sold more than two million Xbox One units worldwide in the 18 days since the new gaming console’s Nov. 22 debut. Last week, Sony said it had sold 2.1 million PlayStation 4s, which debuted a week earlier on Nov. 15. The Xbox One is currently available in 13 countries; the PS4 is in 32.Why Nokia Is Building an Android Phone and Why Microsoft Might Not Kill It
Sources confirm that Nokia’s effort to co-opt Android for its low-end smartphone business has endured and could even survive beyond the company’s acquisition by Microsoft.
NSA Needs a Zoloft After Obama No-Show, but Here Comes Internet’s “Wrecking Ball” Letter
I came in like a wrecking ball/I never hit so hard your code/All I wanted was to break your (fire)walls/All you ever did was hack me/Yeah, you, you ha-aa-aack me!
AllThingsD Week in Review: BlackBerry’s Future and Predictions for Tech in 2014
The Top 10 stories that powered AllThingsD this week, in one convenient post.
Microsoft Looks to Woo Shoppers With $199 Tablet, 12 Days of Deals
In the first of the 12 daily deals, Microsoft will offer Dell’s Venue 8 Pro for a significant discount off its already fairly modest $299 price tag. The first 20 customers at retail stores will pay just $99.
Plantronics Says It Can Be a Wearable Computing Company, Too
Interested in wearables? Do let it go to your head, the company’s CTO says.
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Inside the Effort to Kill a Web Fraud “Botnet”
For months, investigators at Microsoft Corp. hunkered down in front of their computer monitors, patiently stalking the shadowy figures behind what the company says is a major Web ad-fraud machine.Voices
Microsoft Compares NSA to “Advanced Persistent Threat”
Microsoft’s top lawyer compared the National Security Agency to elite hackers, and said the technology giant will encrypt customer information traveling between its data centers, according to a company blog post published Wednesday night.Meet the Team Behind Amazon’s Drone Squad
The pilots behind the Prime Air fleet.
