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Call me a girl, but I like pink. I’ve never had a pink mouse though, although I’ve seen plenty for sale. But now there’s one available that’s tempting me to purchase, not just for its color but because I know it’s for a good cause.

This upcoming special edition of the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000...

The Windows Live team has just pushed out a refresh of the Windows Live Essentials beta. This suite of add-on programs for Windows includes favorite apps like Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Live Writer, Movie Maker and Family Safety, all of which can be optionally installed or skipped when you download...

With the recent refresh of the Windows Live Essentials beta, Windows Live Messenger has been updated to now support Facebook chat in addition to its standard IM service. This new feature further enhances the IM client software, which is already more of a social dashboard than a simple chat application....

Microsoft has just revealed its Xbox LIVE launch titles which will arrive on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 handsets. Within the “Games” hub of phones built with the new mobile operating system, you’ll be able to access games, demos, Xbox LIVE leaderboards, achievement info and more.

The initial lineup...

In addition to the special Halo:Reach Xbox 360 controller, there comes this new jazzy number, too: the Fable III controller, designed to look like the Crown of Albion, as seen in the game’s trailers. With its gold styling, its design may be a bit too much for you, but Kotaku says the look, while seemingly...

I love this! Over on Channel 9, Matthew Bennett describes in detail the sounds in the upcoming Windows Phone 7. One notable feature, which blogger Long Zheng discovered too, is that the soft-keyboard on the phone varies the sound the keys make as you type. Instead of just using one “key click” sound,...

Did you know there are several other Bing iPhone apps available for download besides the primary “Bing” search app? The Bing Team just blogged about this, highlighting the numerous Bing apps available in the iTunes App Store, the majority of which are music related.

I’ll admit, I was aware of some of...

You may have heard the news that with the launch of the iPhone’s new operating system, iOS 4, you now have the option to change your search provider from the default to use Bing instead.

However, if you’ve never monkeyed around with your phone’s settings, you may not know where to look to find this...

The Windows Team Blog has the scoop on the newly released Ceton InfiniTV 4 digital cable tuner card, which Media Center enthusiasts have been waiting on for some time. Last November, changes to industry policy allowed for the installation of digital cable tuner cards to any Windows PC that supported...

OK, right up front, I’m not so sure about the name, but these are scientists and engineers, not brand marketers, over there at Microsoft Research, so I’ll give them a pass. In any event, the “RearType” project is definitely an interesting idea, whether or not it makes it into mainstream consumer gadgets...