Outlook.com | Microsoft vs Microsoft

Microsoft launches its brand new, metro styled, email service Outlook.com. Currently being competition to its own Hotmail service, this could possibly be an upgrade path in upcoming future to upgrade Hotmail users to Outlook and phase out Hotmail over time, only time will confirm this, no official word yet.

Its simple, fast, metro styled, hub for your contacts from other social services, plus its UNLIMITED and offers a 7 GB SkyDrive. Now thats a good welcome gift. You could either signup for a new @outlook.com email or port in your existing @hotmail, @live or @msn emails to enjoy features of Outlook while keeping your old address.

Outlook.com

iOS 6 Announced | Developers Download Now

Today at it's WWDC 2012 event, Apple announced the much awaited iOS 6, with new and exciting features.

Apple iOS 6

Apple WWDC Keynote

iOS 6 is available to download for registered developers, final version is expected to be released in fall of current year.

(Un)Supported Devices:

• iPhone 3gs, iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, iPod Touch 4g, iPad 2, iPad 3.
• Support for iPad 1 and iPod Touch 3g has been dropped.

To mention a few of the new and upcoming features:

• 3D Maps (Built by Apple from scratch, says bye bye to Google Maps)
• Updates to Siri + Siri for iPad 3
• Passbook
• Native Facebook Integration
• Updates for Stock, Phone apps and other OS features
• Guided Access (Parental Control)

Xbox 360 | The Number 1 Console Worldwide

Microsoft’s Don Mattrick has kicked off Microsoft E3 event today by announcing its flagship Xbox 360 console has gone from being the biggest selling console in North America to the most popular console worldwide.

Strictly for Developers | Playbook OS 2.1

RIM the maker of BlackBerry smartphones and tablet Playbook has released a developer update for its Playbook OS, numbered up to 2.1.0.560.

If you are a developer or are willing to test this build (and see some better things but also face some issues, ITS A BETA) click Download, register and update.

Change log:

• Improved HTML5 support
• Portrait support for Email, Calendar and Contacts
• Improved folder support including IMAP folder support
• Full device encryption is now supported, so that the whole device and personal partition can be secure.
• Screenshots are now saved in lossless PNG format.
• Each Android app will now run in its own window. This greatly improves the user experience and consistency among the other application runtimes.
• Access to the Camera hardware is now supported for Android apps, allowing many more application types to work on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet.
• In-App Payment is now supported through the BlackBerry Payment SDK, so Android applications can include virtual items for sale in their applications

Yahoo Axis | Available for Public Now!

Yahoo launches Axis, its browser extension and a standalone browser for iOS devices.

Check it out: Yahoo Axis