- Irish company lets you pay for Xbox purchases using your mobile phone Irish mobile services company Phonovation has expanded its mobile payments service to include the purchase of Xbox LIVE Gold membership and Microsoft Points. Microsoft Points are the universal coin with which users can purchase games, movies and TV shows on their Xbox.
- Bing brings five times more of your friends' Facebook to search Following on from Facebook's Graph Search announcement Tuesday, Microsoft has given its second-rate search engine, Bing, a social update with "five times more of your friends' Facebook" displayed alongside normal web results.
- PlayStation 3 surpasses Xbox 360 in number of shipped units for first time As Sony officially ends production of the PlayStation 2 and all eyes shift towards the two big next-generation game consoles expected to be announced and possibly made available before the end of the year, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720, Sony's current console, the PlayStation 3, is making headlines of its own.
- Facebook may ditch Bing search partnership in favour of Yahoo! Facebook and Yahoo! have reportedly held discussions in regard to both companies working more closely together, and specifically collaborating on search, reports The Telegraph.
- Microsoft demonstrates "breakthrough" speech translation technology Microsoft has posted a remarkable video demonstrating speech-to-speech language translation where spoken English is translated directly into Chinese and read aloud by machine in near real-time.
- Microsoft shutters Windows Live Messenger, migration to Skype begins Microsoft, as many expected, will shutter WIndows Live Messenger in early 2013, instead beginning a process of migrating the "millions" of existing Messenger users to recently purchased communication service Skype.
- Microsoft to face further fines over EU browser choice failure Microsoft may face additional fines over its failure to properly implement a browser choice directive as instructed by the European Commission.
- Microsoft unveils new "all-in-one" music service Microsoft has unveiled its "all-in-one" music service, Xbox Music, that it hopes will rival the likes of already established players Spotify, Amazon and iTunes.
- 100 jobs on offer at Microsoft Ireland Microsoft has revealed that it intends to fill 100 job positions at its headquarters in Dublin in areas such as development, operations, sales and supply chain.
- Microsoft's Yammer acquisition is officially complete Microsoft's acquisition of Yammer is officially complete. The closing conditions of the $1.2 billion deal were finalised earlier today.