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Kinect Star Wars Game and Console Bundle Available 03 April 2012

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The delayed Kinect Star Wars game now has a release date and things look pretty solid that it is accurate.  The game and a special edition bundle will be available on 03 April 2012.

This will also not be your run of the mill game release either.  Microsoft will be offering a . . .

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SlingPlayer App Now Available For Kindle Fire

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Sling Media, the folks who make the SlingBox, have announced the launch of the SlingPlayer application for the Kindle Fire .

If you have been keeping up with the news over the last several weeks you know that Amazon sold somewhere in the ballpark of 6 million Kindle Fire devices over the . . .

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Hotmail App Now Available for Kindle Fire

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David Law, the Director of Hotmail Product Management, has just posted over at the Inside Windows Live Blog about the Hotmail Kindle Fire App has just been released for the Kindle Fire.

We think it’s critical that our customers can use Hotmail from any device they choose. So, in addition to making . . .

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CES 2012: Amazon Opens The Kindle Cloud To Microsoft Files

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Amazon announced at CES a new an application that will let Kindle users synchronize and view Microsoft files held in cloud storage via their devices.

The “Send to Kindle” for PC application which adds a right-click option on any Windows application that adds a Send to Kindle option to the Select . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 36

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Welcome to Episode 36 of the Observed Tech PODCAST as we kick off the coverage of CES 2012. In this show we discuss the Tech Podcasts Network live coverage of this years Consumer Electronics Show and our partnership with them to simulcast the show from the site which you will find embedded on our main page. Amongst the subjects we cover in this show are Windows Phone and updates; Kinect for Windows robots; turning your Windows PC into a Windows Media Center machine; new photo sharing service from Warner Brothers; bouncing lottery checks in Illinois; meet your spouse while playing Word with Friends; Facebook Timeline scams; Ramnit worm swipes 45,000 Facebook passwords; NASA Shuttle program announced 40 years ago; independent devs get some increases for XBL Arcade titles; Microsoft and Nokia spending $200 million in US for marketing Windows Phone; Choplifter HD out this week; everything about passwords is wrong; refresh and reset your Windows 8 PC; storage in Windows 8; Chrome gets punished by Google; identity theft protection tips; Comet making and selling forged Windows CDs; 1 million Kindle Fires sold; Windows 7 will take over Windows XP usage in four months; Commodore 64 turns 30; partitioning your hard drives; Windows Phone Metro Design Series; Meet Ask Ziggy and the top 10 spam, malware and cyber security stories of 2011. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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Last Minute Christmas Gifts Delivered By Email or Mobile Phone

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It happens. You have just finished putting the last bow on the last gift you had in your stash to be wrapped. And then it hits you. You realize that you forgot your nephew, niece, grandchild, friend, etc.

How do you get something to them that can arrive on Christmas Day? . . .

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