Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Tablets
Welcome to Engadget’s holiday gift guide! Head back to our hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month.
Tablets are right up there with 3D-enabled 4K TVs in terms of gift appeal; no one can resist firing them u…
Skype for China now talks directly to Microsoft, may reduce government snooping (updated)
Skype use in China was especially risky for a while — when a local company (TOM Online) was processing data with no real safeguards, it virtually guaranteed the presence of government monitoring. Now that Microsoft has teamed with Guangming Found…
Microsoft’s Xbox Video website is now live, though it doesn’t stream in HD
We already knew Microsoft was working to bring its Xbox Video service to the web, and today it’s finally live. If you go to video.xbox.com, you’ll be able to watch TV shows and movies, including items you may have already purchased from another Wi…
Nokia’s Lumia 525 upgrades its bestselling Windows Phone with more memory
Nokia’s Lumia 525 popped up in a Chinese regulatory filing earlier this month, but now we have official information about this new budget Windows Phone 8 device. In lieu of fanfare or a Middle Eastern press event, it’s appeared via a YouTube video…
Microsoft temporarily mutes users for ‘excessive swearing’ in uploaded Xbox One clips
The next generation of consoles are in the wild, and now that the general public has access, they’re bumping up against some new restrictions with the way they work. While Twitch is clamping down on its live streams, on the Xbox One side some user…
U-Verse dropping Xbox 360 receiver support after December 31st
We hope you weren’t bent on using the Xbox 360 as a U-Verse TV receiver. AT&T is now telling customers that it will drop IPTV support for Microsoft’s older console after December 31st, leaving viewers with little choice but to use a convention…
Fixes coming for Skype Messaging on Windows Phone; improved device syncing also in the works
If you’ve used Skype on Windows Phone, chances are you’ve dealt with out-of-sync and missed messages. Luckily, a fix is on the horizon: according to Skype product manager Jeff Kunins, who spoke with The Verge, Microsoft is aware of the issues and …
What about the Wii U?
Everyone’s in a tizzy about the “new” console generation, conveniently forgetting that, market-wise, it was already here a year ago with the release of Nintendo’s Wii U. It isn’t as advanced technologically as the new Sony’s PlayStation and Micros…
OneNote for Windows 8.1 now uses optical character recognition to search scanned images
It’s been about four months since the OneNote app for Windows received a significant update. Today, though, Microsoft is adding several key features, with the biggest being the ability to scan images and then search them using keywords. This new C…
Weekly Roundup: Xbox One and Nokia Lumia 2520 reviews, the future of EA Games and more!
You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days — a…
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