Microsoft just announced the pricing for the new KIN phones, the KIN ONE and KIN TWO, which are now known to be $49.99 and $99.99 respectively. Designed for the highly social “tween” and teen set, these phones will be available on Verizon Wireless here in the U.S. and will require a Nationwide Talk…

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a new social aggregator called Spindex, a project built by FUSE Labs, the folks behind the Outlook Social Connector, Bing Twitter Maps and Docs for Facebook. With Spindex, now available as an early technical preview, your social streams from…

Microsoft and Nokia have just announced a new software collaboration called Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia. The software lets Nokia phone owners see their colleagues’ availability and can click to call them, email them or start an instant messaging session. The contacts’ names and their…

Microsoft has released an updated version of the IE9 preview. (As promised, new releases will launch every 8 weeks or so). In this new version, there are a number of new demos to complement those found in version one of the release, all of which are still available. For example, under the speed…

Last month, we told you about Fizzik, a new “social” web browser designed for keeping up with news, video and social media. Web services like .NET and WPF are used in the software which is also built on top of Internet Explorer. At the time of the original announcement, the browser was not yet…

I love that Microsoft keeps updating their collection of themes for Windows 7 because - I have to admit - I quickly grow bored with my desktop background and color schemes. I like to switch it up pretty often and the themes feature in Windows 7 lets me do that easily. With themes, my wallpaper…

Twitter Blackbird Pie, the recently announced official Twitter feature that lets you embed tweets into a web page or blog post, is now available to Windows Live Writer users by way of a new plugin. With Twitter’s Blackbird Pie website, you can paste in a tweet’s URL to general embed code to place…

These days, we no longer need screensavers to prevent “burn in” of images on our computer’s screens – those types of problems are, truly, a relic of another era, thank goodness (for LCD anyway). That said, there’s no reason why you can’t use a screensaver just to brighten up your idle PC with…

For I.T. departments tasked with supporting a wide range of mobile handsets, providing connectivity to internal resources, like SharePoint sites for example, becomes a larger challenge. That’s especially true for handsets that are more consumer-friendly as opposed to enterprise-ready. But luckily…

I just finished reading the Engadget review of the new Sony VAIO P netbooks. These colorful, but pricey, devices may be more status symbol than notebook replacement, especially with their candy-coated shells and $800 price tag.  But they do have some decent features, at least according to the…