Microsoft Announces New Batch Of Aerial And Streetside Imagery In Bing Maps


Microsoft today announced expanded aerial and Streetside imagery for over 20 cities across the United States which will allow users to explore national landmarks and state capitols on Bing.com or via the Bing Maps Preview Map for Windows 8.1.
Here is the full list of expanded aerial and Streetside coverage.
Aerial: 

Extended aerial coverage for: 

Streetside:  
Read more about it here.

Microsoft Begins Development Of ORTC API For WebRTC In IE To Make Real-Time Communications (RTC) On The Web A Reality



Microsoft today announced that the development has begun on the ORTC API for WebRTC, a key technology to make Real-Time Communications (RTC) on the web a reality. WebRTC will allow users to have full Skype experience within the browser! Yes, without any need of a plug-in.
We’ve been actively collaborating with the W3C and IETF to contribute and improve standards like the ORTC API for WebRTC to enable a wide range of features from simple conversations to scalable multiparty video conferences. With the momentum from over 80 participants that represent a variety of browsers, communications experts and start-ups, the W3C ORTC Community Group has issued a “Call for Implementations,” which signals the ORTC specification has reached significant stability. Building on top of the experiences from Skype and Lync and prototyping effort done by the Microsoft OpenTech, we are now working to deliver the ORTC API in Internet Explorer.
The ORTC specification supports the underlying protocols as defined by the IETF RTCWEB Working Group,which enables support for advanced video conferencing technologies such as simulcast and scalable video coding.  We are working with the web community on various fronts to influence how a subset of ORTC objects and methods become part of the WebRTC 1.0 API. This helps to provide a seamless transition from WebRTC 1.0 to a JavaScript object-based real-time communications model based on ORTC (i.e. WebRTC 1.1).

Get 5% Off When Shopping At Online Microsoft Store, Applicable To Xbox One As Well


You can now sign-up for the latest news, events and offers from Microsoft Store from your phone. When you sign-up, you will receive a promo code which you can use for 5% off at the Microsoft Store. This promo code is applicable for Xbox One console too. If you use this promo code on November, you can buy an Xbox One for $332.50!
Complete the form below for the latest news, events and special offers, delivered right to your phone! As a sign up bonus, you’ll get a promo code for 5% off at the Microsoft Store – Online or In-store. Sign up today!
Take advantage of this offer here. Or simply, text ‘Play’ to 29502.
You can also get 5% off at Microsoft using Bing Rewards

Cortana said to sound a bit more human in the UK


UK Windows Phone users are reporting that Cortana is sounding a lot better there, with the digital voice assistant sounding a lot less robotic.
Microsoft is constantly updating Cortana in the background, adding features and refining the voice recognition, and it seems also improving the voice samples used.

Microsoft Launches New Azure Geo In Austraila



Microsoft launched their newest Azure Geography (Geo) in Australia open for business. The new Azure Geo includes geographically redundant regions in New South Wales and Victoria. This new Azure Geo will lower latency rates and address data sovereignty considerations for Microsoft customers and partners. “From today, our goal is to create Australia’s best and most complete cloud, enabled by world class technology and a world class cloud ecosystem,” said Scott Guthrie.
Microsoft also announced an expansion of its ExpressRoute offering in Australia via its existing global partnership with Equinix and forming a new alliance with Telstra. The expansion gives Australian customers and partners the option to create private connections between the Australia Azure Regions and infrastructure located on-premises or in a colocation environment. ExpressRoute connections do not go over the public Internet, and offer more reliability, faster speeds and lower latencies.

With Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft is delivering the industry’s most complete cloud — for every business, every industry and every geography. Microsoft delivers over 200 services to over 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses are served by our cloud infrastructure in over 90 markets, globally.
Read the full press release here.

Wide range of benchmarks show HTC M8 for Windows the fastest, Snapdragon 400 as fast as Snapdragon S4




Btekt have run a wide series of benchmarks on the Nokia Lumia 735, 830, 930, 1020, 1520 and HTC One M8 for Windows Phone and have come up with some pretty interesting results.
The handsets were tested using the Antutu, Basemark OS II, Pi Benchmark, Relative Benchmark, Browsermark and Sunspider tests and while the advantage of running a Snapdragon 800 processor was clear, the most interesting result from the test was that the SnapDragon S4 was in many ways comparable with the new Snapdragon 400 processors, meaning one should not choose a newer midrange device over an older dual-core handset simple for performance reasons, and that it would be pointless to upgrade for performance reasons and buy a Snapdragon 400 device.
On the other hand the HTC M8 for Windows with its Snapdragon 801 processr was a consistently good performer, which is another string in the box of the versatile handset.
AntutuBasemark OS IIPiRelativeBrowsermarkSunspider
Lumia 735
Snapdragon 400
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Lumia 830
Snapdragon 400
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Lumia 930
Snapdragon 800
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Lumia 1020
Snapdragon S4
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Lumia 1520
Snapdragon 800
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HTC M8
Snapdragon 801
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Microsoft Bing Announces Support Of Emoji Characters In Bing Search In All English Markets


Microsoft today announced that they are adding support for Emoji characters in Bing search in all English markets. People nowadays use emojis more often for expressing themselves in an efficient way. This new Bing update lets them use the same language to search the web.
With this new feature, you can search using your favorite emoji, and Bing will return results based on the semantic meaning of the emoji. But emoji search on Bing can be even more powerful than just finding out an emoji’s meaning.  You can combine them to create more multi-word searches. See the above image for example.
Read more about it here.

Microsoft Announces Unlimited OneDrive Storage For All Office 365 Customers



Microsoft today announced that they will be offering unlimited storage to all its Office 365 customers moving forward. Microsoft has started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers. The roll out will continue over the coming months. If you want to be one of the very first to get more storage, go here to put yourself at the front of the line. Microsoft also announced that OneDrive for Business customers will get unlimited storage in 2015. Also, Microsoft already offers 1 TB of storage for them.

While unlimited storage is another important milestone for OneDrive we believe the true value of cloud storage is only realized when it is tightly integrated with the tools people use to communicate, create, and collaborate, both personally and professionally. That is why unlimited storage is just one small part of our broader promise to deliver a single experience across work and life that helps people store, sync, share, and collaborate on all the files that are important to them, all while meeting the security and compliance needs of even the most stringent organizations.
We’re thrilled to continue our quest of making OneDrive the world’s cloud storage leader – and, always a key part of the best productivity service with Office 365. We’re all in! Stay tuned for more exciting announcements over the coming months.

Source: Microsoft

Amazon India Fast WebApp comes to Nokia X Store..details here


As we said earlier, the fast apps available in Windows Phone devices are now available for Nokia X, X+, XL, and X2 devices. These apps enable users to browse and use faster. Now Amazon India Fast App is also available along with other Apps..





Search "Amazon India Fast App " in store
Amazon India Fast App is just a normal app which allows you to shop on "Amazon India" easily and faster. This app was first launched on Windows Phone. 
Now no need to go to browser to shop on Amazon India in case official app loads slow. Fast shopping is just a click away using this WebApp. :)



ONLY IN INDIA




OTHER APPS


Search "Facebook Fast Basic App" in store


Facebook Fast App provide a better view and better shortcuts to all the links in facebook like Home, profile, Messages, Chat, Search, Pages, Groups, Events, Logout, etc..


EVERY STORE





Search "Snapdeal Fast App" in store

Snapdeal.com Fast App is India’s largest e-commerce marketplace.Snapdeal provides a platform for vendors across the country to connect with the customers. Snapdeal.com is India's largest online shopping site featuring a wide array of products from multiple categories like mobile phones, laptops, TV, digital cameras, apparel, footwear, watches and many more.

ONLY IN INDIA





Search "Flipkart Fast App" in store


Flipkart Fast App to provide a better view and better shortcuts to all the links in flipkart like Cart, Wishlish, Orders, Login, Register, Flipkart Fast, Tracking Order, etc.


ONLY IN INDIA

Sunset Overdrive For Xbox One Earns Hugely Positive Reviews Across The Web (Review Roundup)



Sunset Overdrive reviews were published from various leading gaming websites and blogs. The reviews were overwhelmingly positive and it seems to be the best exclusive on Xbox One yet.
Find the review round up below.
Sunset Overdrive is an immensely rewarding experience that has a look and style all its own and a great gameplay package to complement it. It’s a colorful return to form for Insomniac games, and a hell of an exclusive for Xbox One.

As a collection of mechanics and ideas, Sunset Overdrive is an impressive evolution of things Insomniac has been doing for a long time. Every part of Sunset Overdrive hooks into every other part somehow, and often in multiple ways, and it makes the whole shooting, grinding, wall-running package better for it. But the best thing about Sunset Overdrive is how it’s unabashedly enthusiastic about what it is, in just about every way. That enthusiasm, and the freedom behind it, is contagious.
Sunset Overdrive is big, gorgeous, and a hell of a lot of fun. Never has getting from point A to point B in an open-world game provided so much enjoyment. It provides some of the most fun, frantic, and fantastic gaming I’ve had on the Xbox One. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to once-again adorn my wolf mask, leap off the highest ledge I can find, and fire an explosive stuffed animal at that group of angry robots.

Sunset Overdrive sets out to create a world where the apocalypse is fun instead of depressing, and that means putting control in the player’s hands. Developer Insomniac has given players a sandbox to play in, toys to play with, a treasure chest full of costumes and jokes that lampoon and acknowledge how absurd the whole thing is.
Each of the game’s systems feeds into another, making the experience feel complete and purposeful. More importantly, it gives players a plethora of choices in how they look, what weapon they use and how they play, and then makes every single possible combination feel vindicated. Nothing goes to waste in the awesome-pocalypse, and everyone’s invited to Sunset City’s after-party.
In case you’ve not been able to tell throughout my review so far, I have thoroughly enjoyed Sunset Overdrive. It’s the game I wanted it to be, and then some. Playing Sunset took me back to a classic series of games from Insomniac. I haven’t played a Ratchet & Clank game for over 12 years, but I remember absolutely adoring them and as I gunned down the hordes of OD around this humongous futuristic settlement, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how great Insomniac are at making games.

Sunset Overdrive is better than it should be. With a questionable sense of humor and some truly humorless repetition in the campaign, Insomniac’s latest could have fallen flat, but the sheer delight of moving around the city and learning how to effectively handle the throngs of baddies is intensely compelling.
Xbox One, like most consoles do, has had a slow first year. The exclusive games weren’t that good and thegood games weren’t that exclusive. It’s exciting to find something that’s only on Xbox One that’s this high-quality, and importantly that breaks away from the sameness of today’s lineup of triple-A game experiences. I hope this is the beginning of a trend.

Order Sunset Overdrive from the below links.
Amazon:
  • Pre-order Sunset Overdrive to get the Day One Edition, which includes two Amazon.com exclusive codes for the Hotty Shotty gun and the Wasteland character outfit . The Day One edition also includes the “Hardcore! Hammer”, “Nothin’ but the Hits” gun, and the “It’s Me! Fizzie!” outfit.

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