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Microsoft's Airband Initiative expands to 8 new cities
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Microsoft is upping its Airband Initiative's reach. Now its affordable broadband plan will cover eight major cities including New York City and Atlanta.
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Microsoft Store opening in NYC will include Pitbull concert
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Microsoft will hold a free concert featuring pop music artist and rapper Pitbull as part of its opening of its flagship Microsoft Store in New York City on October 26.
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New York City's Microsoft Store opens Oct. 26
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The flagship Microsoft Store location at 677 Fifth Avenue in New York City will finally open on Monday, October 26. In addition, the first Microsoft Store in Sydney, Australia will open on November 12.
Coming this fall
Microsoft Store in New York City gets a new look
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The upcoming Microsoft Store in New York City gets a new look after its construction scaffolding is removed. The store, located at 677 5th Avenue in Manhattan, is scheduled to open sometime this fall.
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Microsoft Store in New York City scheduled to open this fall
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The facade on the construction site of the new flagship Microsoft Store in New York City shows that the location on 677 5th Avenue will open sometime in the fall of 2015.
Subway Surfers bumped for New York City World Tour on Windows Phone
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Another month and another update for the popular endless runner Subway Surfers. And no, this one too does not have 512 MB RAM support, so you can stop reading if that is what you want to know. Instead, users today can head to the Store to update their Subway Surfers game to version 1.2, which includes the new New York City ‘World Tour’ theme. Previous world tour themes included Seoul,...
Nokia rebrands its Music service to Nokia MixRadio, completely refreshes Windows Phone app
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Nokia has today released a substantial update to its Nokia Music app available on all Lumia Windows Phones. Not only that, but the company has completely rebranded the service. Say hello to Nokia MixRadio. To celebrate the launch of the software upgrade for its app on Windows Phone, Nokia is also looking to hold an event in New York on November 21st, but you can download the update...
Live Blog: The Nokia Lumia 1020 announcement in NYC (11 AM ET)
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Join us for the Windows Phone Central Live Blog of Nokia's announcement. We're live in New York City with Nokia, front and center, ready to bring you the latest on their ever changing lineup, including the expected announcement of the Lumia 1020 with a 41MP camera phone. Join us after the break for the live stream, our live blog and your comment room! You won't want to miss it! The...
25 portable charging stations coming to NYC to help juice you and your phone
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Here’s some eco-friendly news if you’re a New Yorker or plan on visiting New York City in the near future. AT&T is rolling out charging stations that aren’t connected to the electricity grid. Instead those stations will be powered by our local star – the Sun. Starting today, 25 of these solar-powered charging stations, called Street Charge, will appear in a variety of public places...
Microsoft's Windows 8 and Surface event receives auto-tune treatment
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Ever wondered what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky would sound like auto-tuned? We sure have, and so has Justin Angel, Principal Engineer for Windows Phone experience at Nokia, who has created a short montage of clips from the Surface and Windows 8 event. The unveiling of both products took place last week, and while it's great to see the desktop OS live and available,...
Microsoft opening up Microtropolis in New York, all are welcome
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Oh, looking very abstract indeed. No, it's not an upcoming movie. A new article has been published on the Windows Experience Blog, which details something special that Microsoft has planned for New York. With the imminent release of both Windows 8 and Window Phone 8, as well as Xbox, Office and other product goodness, the company is going social. Literally. The Microsoft team has...
Microsoft donates $1.5M in software to local Long Island non-profits
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Microsoft giving back Good guy Microsoft. They open a new retail Store in the heart of busy Long Island but also worked heavily with the community. Members of the Huntington and Melville business councils were on hand as were a few charity and support groups. Those groups were there because as a tradition when Microsoft opens these stores they do out-reaches to the community for...
Microsoft opens their new retail Store in New York to a cheering crowd
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This morning in the Walt Whitman Mall located in Huntington Station, New York (that’s Long Island), Microsoft finally threw open their doors to a few hundred willing and able customers to their new retail Store. We were there to cover it all and the mood was very exciting as Microsoft’s pre-show gave away a Samsung Series 9 laptop, Xbox 360 with Kinect and some other goodies to some...
HTC 8X and 8S with Windows Phone 8 - Video hands on
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We managed to spend some near and dear time with the recently announced HTC 8X and the HTC 8S. What can we say besides that we love the new look for HTC--bold colors, smooth designs, excellent screens--we see a bright and popular future for the new HTC series. The HTC 8X features a 4.3" 720p display with a whopping 344ppi and a dual-core 1.5GHz, meanwhile the 8S features a more modest...
Green Day to perform at Irving Plaza in NYC to celebrate Nokia Music in the US
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The other day when Nokia announced that their music streaming service was headed to the US, they mentioned a special concert to celebrate featuring the band Green Day. At the time, no date or event was mentioned and instead we were told to tune in later. Now, details have come forth about that big show—somewhat. Evidently Green Day will be playing a concert at Irving Plaza here in New...
Nokia, Windows Phone 8 and New York City – Our rumor roundup and what we are expecting
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Nokia's big day has the tech-world aflutter. (Yes, we said aflutter!) Yes folks, we’re just over half-a-day away from finally putting all of the puzzle pieces together and getting to see what Nokia has planned for the initial release of Windows Phone 8. In turn, we figured we do a little wrap up those rumors, leaks and images to better prepare yourself for tomorrow. Speaking of,...
Microsoft announces Huntington & White Plains Stores in New York opening September 28th
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Good news to our New York readers as you’ll be gaining access to two new Microsoft Stores at the end of September. We’ve known about these locations for awhile but now Microsoft has made it official... Huntington Station (Walt Whitman Mall), NY White Plans, NY Both stores will be throwing their doors open on Friday, September 28th. The good news for those of you who can’t be...
Nokia Teaser Video telling us things are about to change on the 5th September
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We are ever so close to the 5th of September where it’s possible Nokia and Microsoft are planning to reveal all about Windows Phone 8. We still have much to learn about the next version of Windows Phone such as possible consumer features for the OS that include Xbox Live and music improvements, as well as anything else Microsoft may still have hidden up their sleeves. While there is...
Register your spot now for the Nokia 9/5 event in New York
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Nokia certainly knows how to throw a party. Nokia World 2011 (the first evening) and the Deadmau5 performance are two examples of the kind of events the manufacturer has held here in the UK. We've now learned that Nokia has plans to hold a party in New York on September 5th. So what's in stall for attendees? We're not entirely sure as details are scarce as to what exactly is on the...
Nokia and Microsoft holding joint press event in NYC on September 5th
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Microsoft and Nokia just sent out press invites for a joint conference happening on Wednesday, September 5th here in New York City. No word on what will be discussed or revealed but you can bet it has to do with Windows Phone 8 and Nokia’s upcoming lineup. What makes this interesting is the fact that Nokia is to have Nokia World at the same time. But it now looks like that event may be...