According to an internal Microsoft e mail sent to all full time employees working on the next Xbox, Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today Internet. It continues, There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should just work regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu ray disc, watching...

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Tumblr feels that Yahoos $1.1 billion offer as too low and view it as only a first offer, according to sources close to to acquisition talks. Yahoo may have to significantly increase the offer to close the deal. An acquisition by some tech giant is likely in the cards for Tumblr, though, as sources say the company only has a few months of cash runway left. The news comes after AllThingsD reported Yahoo was in advanced talks to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, and the portals board of directors...

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As you can see from one of the messages, apparently there was an image link at the bottom of the Bing Home page that opened up this chat window.  Only going by what we see here, this doesnt appear to be a connection into your Microsoft account or Skype messaging contacts, but rather a way for anyone searching for a particular search term to anonymously? connect with others searching for the same thing. Would you use Bing Live chat?  The mind reels at all of the unseemly ways this might be put to...

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If you think the private messages you send over Skype are protected by end to end encryption, think again. The Microsoft owned service regularly scans message contents for signs of fraud, and company managers may log the results indefinitely, Ars has confirmed. And this can only happen if Microsoft can convert the messages into human readable form at will. With the help of independent privacy and security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars used Skype to send a four Web links that were created solely...

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Microsoft has already implemented a picture password feature in Windows 8, allowing users to pick a picture and draw on it to unlock their computer. This method adds a more personal touch to Windows 8. But what if Microsoft was looking at adding yet another neat password feature? When digging through system files on the recently leaked Windows 8.1 build 9385, a feature called fingerprint password was present but not functional. Is Microsoft working on a means of using your finger as a password?...

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Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform hasn’t exactly been the catalyst PC makers were looking for as sales continue to slide, but the new operating system does seem to be making some progress. IHS-owned market research firm Displaybank says that of the 46 million notebook computers that shipped during the first quarter this year, 4.57 million of them included touchscreens, Digitimes reported. That figure is good for a 10% share of the global market and is up a healthy 51.8% from the fourth...

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Many years ago, I spent a week visiting my brother in Alaska. At the time, he was working on a fishing boat out of Homer, and I spent several days on the boat enjoying the sights of Kachemak Bay and the Kenai Peninsula. The impression that struck me immediately as my flight descended toward the tarmac, and that stayed with me throughout my visit, was just how huge and near the mountains looked; in fact, every aspect of nature seemed larger, closer, and more vivid. Thats one of the things I like...

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