I have just got out of the Opening Ceremony of the UK Imagine Cup Finals and from what I can tell today is going to be great. The ceremony kicked off with a video showing off the US and New York City to advertise the competition. Next Ben Nunney took to the podium and welcomed [...]

This week is an important week for the British Imagine Cup entrants as it’s the national finals this Wednesday. I have been invited along to spectate and I have to say I am really looking forward to it. I am looking forward to seeing what great and innovative ideas have come to fruition; I am [...]

This is excellent news and seems to be hot off the presses; Microsoft will soon be bringing Streetside to Europe. The information has come via the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones who linked to a new site microsoftstreetside.co.uk which was only registered 5 days ago. I, of course, might have been somewhat blind and not seen this [...]

This morning I had a rather important Final Year Project seminar accounting for 20% of the project’s grade but I paid little attention to this event today over the past few days as I knew that this afternoon I would be, for the first time, visiting the Microsoft UK campus. My reason for going was [...]

Today with the launch of Windows Phone 7 in the US I saw that Amazon.com were giving discounts for handsets on the other side of the Atlantic. I wondered if Amazon.co.uk were offering any discounts for Windows Phone 7 units in the UK, it doesn’t look like they are, however I did discover something. It [...]

As I am sure you all know I went to London for the launch of Windows Phone 7 yesterday and it was an absolutely great day. The venue was the Institute of Contemporary Art situated along the Mall, the long driveway up to Buckingham Palace. I arrived early and met Tom Warren, my Neowin boss, [...]

Today Microsoft have announced quite a few pieces of information regarding games on several platforms and the release date for Kinect outside the US. First up Microsoft has announced that it is creating a new Age of Empires game, Age of Empires Online. This game will feature Game for Windows Live integration to allow social [...]

Bing has a new beta page for searches, Bing Social. This pulls information from Twitter and Facebook with options to select the time frame and the source, whether it is public updates or Shared Links. As with most things to do with Facebook at the moment there might be fears about people’s information being shared [...]

MSN UK are reporting an interview that TechRadar.com had with Microsoft UK in that Brandon Watson, Microsoft’s director of developer experience for Windows Phone said the devices would be on sale “between October and New Year”. This is good news and also worrying too. The article quotes these dates which is promptly followed by “for [...]

For the past month or so Windows has teamed up with Sky and toured universities around the UK informing student just how great Windows 7 is and how they can access Sky through their PC. This is a great way to increase mindshare of Windows but there is much more to Windows Access All Areas [...]