Pedro Hernandez

The Bing Translator App for Windows now accepts speech input, bringing one of the standout features of its Windows Phone 8 counterpart to Windows 8/RT devices. Microsoft’s Bing Translator Team announced the voice-enabled update in a Jan. 14 blog post. “The recent release update for the Translator app for Windows now delivers the same speech-to-speech […]

Microsoft has sweetened the deal for subscribers of its cloud-based customer relationship management platform, Dynamics CRM Online 2013 (Fall ’13 release). Uma Maheswari Anbazhagan of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team announced in a blog post that customers of the company’s cloud CRM product can now take advantage of a couple of new perks, namely “a […]

The Wireless Registry officially kicked off on Jan. 14 during an event held in New York City. With an ambitious goal of becoming nothing short of the “registry for the Internet of things,” the Washington, D.C.-based company’s platform imbues identity and context to SSIDs (service set identifiers), the wireless signposts generated by WiFi access points […]

Surface is ready for point-of-sale (POS) duty, according to Microsoft. During the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) conference in New York City, Microsoft announced two new Designed for Surface partners that are bringing their mobile payment technologies to the company’s line of Windows tablets. The companies “offer suites of hardware, software and gateway solutions for secure […]

Developers will be getting a sneak peek at Windows “Threshold,” Microsoft’s stab at a unified Windows ecosystem that is expected to span its flagship OS, Windows Phone and Xbox One, during the next Build conference, according to Paul Thurrott of Windows SuperSite. Threshold also marks the beginning of the end for Windows 8. “At the […]

Microsoft and IBM are working on new IT products that will meld the enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities of Microsoft’s Dynamics AX 2012 R3 with IBM’s systems for the retailers. During the National Retail Federation (NRF) Conference in New York City, the companies revealed “an expanded relationship” that will usher in retail-focused IT systems based […]

IBM is kicking off a five-day event on Feb. 3, 2014, that spans more than 40 countries and will bring together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, company executives and academic leaders in a series of virtual and in-person gatherings. IBM Entrepreneur Week honors innovation and the tech startups that are laying the groundwork for a smarter planet. […]

Microsoft is reportedly preparing an update for its Xbox One game console that, if all goes according to plan, will smooth over some of the device’s less-than-seamless social features. During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten told Engadget’s Ben Gilbert, that Microsoft is working on fixing “the Live […]

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8, 2014, more than 12 years since the desktop operating system first launched in 2001. Users hoping to eke a few more months, perhaps years, out of the OS, were dealt another blow by Microsoft. In addition to putting a stop to security patches as updates for […]

Expect Microsoft to spotlight big data, mobility and enterprise social during the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) gathering in New York City next week. Ahead of the convention, staffers have taken to the company’s official blogs to preview some of the tech Microsoft has in store for retailers. Kristin Flandreau, Americas business group lead for Windows […]