Build keynote live stream
Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:51 am by Jason Cartwright
Can’t make it to Anaheim, California ? No problem, just head to http://www.buildwindows.com/ for the official live stream from Microsoft. Yes you will need Silverlight to get the stream to work.
If you’d prefer to follow along with commentary, there’s a couple of live blogs I’d suggest.
- http://www.istartedsomething.com/
- http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Microsoft_Windows_8_BUILD_keynote
Strap yourselves in, this should be a good one. Warning: There’s going to be a lot of posts today.
Microsoft’s E3 keynote – “Xbox, the future revealed”
Posted Monday, June 6, 2011 at 6:56 pm by Jason Cartwright
Image credit: ViveDigital
Thanks to the time zone gods, tomorrow the day will start around 2AM. Microsoft will open the electronic entertainment expo, better known as E3, with a keynote that is said to showcase “Xbox, the future revealed”. A very intriguing title indeed.
We already know Nintendo have committed to showing off a playable version of their next console. Previously Microsoft had been quoted as saying the Xbox 360’s lifespan would be around 10 years. As we know, the likes of the PS2 can live on for a very long time, but doesn’t mean the successor has to wait till that 10 years is over. So are we likely to get a sneak peak at the Xbox 720 ? That’d be two big reveals in a week (the other being Windows 8).
A more likely scenario is that Microsoft will talk about future game releases using Kinect and potentially expand Zune services. As always techAU will follow the news and be tweeting updates as we go. There’ll be live streams available, so join in the complimentary discussions, thoughts, opinions on twitter.
For those more sane people, there’ll be a summary blog post of the announcement for you to digest over your breakfast coffee.
Microsoft are making sure you don’t miss the action, watch it on Microsoft’s Facebook page, on your Xbox 360 or Windows Phone. E3 is jam packed with press conferences, Microsoft will be followed by EA, Ubisoft and Sony tomorrow, then its Nintendo’s turn on Wednesday morning.
E3 Press conference list. (courtesy of AusGamers)
- Microsoft Xbox: – June 7th, 2am AEST – Live Stream @ xbox.com.
- Electronic Arts – June 7th, 5:30am AEST – Live Stream @ ea.com
- Ubisoft – June 7th, 7:30am AEST – Live Stream @ ubi.com.
- Sony: June 7th, 10am AEST – Live Stream @ playstation.com
- Nintendo: June 8th, 2am AEST – Live Stream @ nintendo.com
More information @ E3Expo
Microsoft CES 2011 Keynote–The important bits
Posted Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 12:18 pm by Jason Cartwright
Despite a couple of days of pre-CES news, CES 2011 officially begins at 1:30PM AEDST. As usual, Microsoft have the headlining spot to kick things off, with CEO Steve Ballmer running the show.
This morning we seen press conferences from Samsung, Motorola, Panasonic, Sony, Hitachi, Sharp and LG to name a few. There’s been plenty of tablets, smart phones, 3D, HDTVs, cameras announced, so what’s in store for Microsoft ?
During the press event yesterday, we heard info on Surface 2, Windows 8 running on Arm processors, so expect a rehash of that. Don’t doubt there’ll be mentions of the companies successes in gaming with Xbox and Kinect, and mobile with Windows Phone 7.
This post will be updated as the important parts are announced, so watch closely, or check back later for a summary. If you want to see the action happen live, Microsoft are streaming (using Silverlight) a very high quality stream 1.3Mbps over at the Microsoft CES site.
Announcements
- Netflix and Hulu Plus to support Kinect (US only) in Spring.
- ESPN allows sports picks to be shared / compared with friends. (US only)
- Avatar Kinect
- Facial tracking, social environment, share to facebook
- free in Spring to Xbox Live Gold Subscribers
- 30 million Xbox Live subscribers, 50 Million Xbox 360’s sold, 8 Million Kinects sold - Fable Coin Golf coming to WP7, Xbox Live support, Fable 3 on Xbox sync.
- 5,500 apps now available in WP7 Marketplace, average 100 new apps per day.
- WP7 Updates pushed automatically, copy + paste, fast app switching coming.
- 20% of internet connected PC are now running Windows 7
- Windows Live used by 500 Million people
- New Windows 7 PCS using Intel Sandy Bridge, AMD Fusion processors
- 6.5 hours battery life for a Core i7 with 6-cell.. Go Sandy Bridge
- Dual-screen LED touchscreen laptop, on-screen keyboard
- Surface 2,
- thin, tracking per pixel, largest piece of gorilla glass bonded to a screen.
- awesome demo.. commercial availability soon, no mention of consumer availability. - Windows 8 support for System on a chip, no UI shown in demo.
- Windows demo’d running on Intel, Qualcomm (Snapdragon), Nvidia Tegra.
Images
Image credit: Screens taken from Microsoft’s Live Stream.
Apple WWDC 2009 keynote coverage – 08/06/2009
Posted Monday, June 8, 2009 at 10:13 pm by Jason Cartwright
Tomorrow morning 3am AEST Apple’s developer conference begins with a Phil Schiller keynote. There’s a lot of speculation around as with any Apple event. Probably this time more than ever. It’s 2 years since the original iPhone announcement, 1 year since the iPhone 3G announcement and 1 year since the announcement of Apple’s newest operating system – Snow Leopard (OSX.6). There’s also many rumours about a tablet announcement, but I don’t think so, happy to be wrong on that one.
The Australian times for the keynote are as follows:
Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane/Canberra 3:00 AM
Adelaide/Darwin time – 2:30 AM
Perth time – 1:00 AM
There’ll be plenty of people covering the event and there’s sure to be some sneaky people who get a live audio feed from the event. The race will be on to find those people.
Sources of content I’ll be watching are..
- Twitter (via TweetDeck), watching = “Apple OR WWDC”, “iPhone”, “Snow Leopard”.
- TWiT Live – http://live.twit.tv
- Tech Blogs live blogging – [engadget], [gizmodo], [gdgt]
- Mactalk [link]
I’ll be checking http://ustream.tv, http://stickam.com, http://justin.tv, for live feeds. Experience has shown that sites are bound to go down during live events, particularly Apple’s, that’s why backups are a great idea.
Did I mention having multiple monitors is great this time of year ? 
For all my coverage watch http://twitter.com/techAU
