
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>electronista | Courier News</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/</link>
<description>electronista is the leading source for electronic news. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for gadgets News. Period.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<image>
<title>Courier, Latest News, Headlines, Stories;</title>
<url>http://photos.macnn.com/logo-electronista.jpg</url>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/</link>
</image>
<item>
<title>Microsoft app to bring Courier functionality to Windows 8</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/22/defunct.courier.resurrected.with.project.austin/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1348358581_1376.image_5F00_9.jpg_2D00_550x420.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A team at Microsoft is working to bring the note-taking functionality from that company's now-defunct Courier concept device toWindows 8. The app, codenamed Project Austin, is said to allow users to create notes containing a range of mixed content. As the team explains in a...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/22/defunct.courier.resurrected.with.project.austin/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Paper for iPad tops 1.5m downloads, 7m pages in two weeks</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/12/paper.for.ipad.gets.record.interest.early.on/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/paper-ipad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Fiftythree sent word late Wednesday that its Paper app for the iPad (App Store) has crossed the 1.5 million download mark in its first two weeks.  The same interval saw a total of seven million pages created at the same time, suggesting that every user made at least one page.  It's not clear how many had paid for extra drawing tools beyond what's free....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/12/paper.for.ipad.gets.record.interest.early.on/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Microsoft Courier axed over Bill Gates' 'allergic reaction'</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/01/leak.shows.courier.killed.for.lack.of.office.tech/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/microsoftcourier-5.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft's decision to kill the Courier tablet came after a meeting with former CEO Bill Gates himself, according to a new leak on Tuesday.  Not willing to decide on his own whether Microsoft should embrace the book-like Courier or a more conventional tablet, current CEO Steve Ballmer turned to a presentation with Gates judging a presentation by Courier architect J Allard, then Entertainment &amp; De...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/01/leak.shows.courier.killed.for.lack.of.office.tech/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>UMPC pioneer, Xbox co-creator Berkes leaves Microsoft</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/24/umpc.and.xbox.maker.otto.berkes.quits.microsoft/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1105/microsoft-ottoberkes.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft was dealt a symbolic hit Tuesday after new word that one of its most unconventional device designers, Otto Berkes, has left the company.  The veteran of the ultramobile PC (UMPC) and Xbox teams resigned this afternoon.  His final destination wasn't known, but he told the Seattle Times he was leaving for a firm "outside the Seattle area."...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/24/umpc.and.xbox.maker.otto.berkes.quits.microsoft/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Microsoft shuts creative unit behind Courier tablet</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/19/microsoft.closes.experimental.pioneer.studios/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1105/microsoft-pioneerstudios.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[New tips Thursday afternoon have pointed to and confirmed Microsoft shutting down its once-hopeful Pioneer Studios.  Its creative workshop, best known for the ill-fated Courier tablet, has closed down its exotic office in Seattle and seen most staff either folded into existing groups or have left elsewhere.  Microsoft didn't directly confirm the end to the studio with CNET but did say it was no lo...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/19/microsoft.closes.experimental.pioneer.studios/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 22:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Insiders blame Microsoft mobile failure on Windows 'cartel'</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/04/03/microsoft.mobile.failure.pinned.on.windows.pride/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1104/windowsphone7-ballmerchou.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[An investigation into Microsoft's high-profile mobile failures has blamed much of the company's poor market share on an endemic culture that resists anything not part of Windows.  CEO Steve Ballmer is said to be over-proud and overprotective of the Windows legacy he inherited from Bill Gates.  The company's Windows and Office teams often get first say over anything, Forbes was told, and were liken...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/04/03/microsoft.mobile.failure.pinned.on.windows.pride/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Sony call strongly hints at PlayStation phone, tablet</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/10/29/sony.call.talks.ps.phone.strategy.and.tablet/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1010/playstationphone-leak.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Sony during the call discussing its latest results has strongly hinted that the company is developing a PlayStation phone.  Without mentioning the device itself, the company said the hardware would be delivered from the Network Services group that handles both computers and the PlayStation brand.  It's also moving Sony Computer Entertainment, the PlayStation division, into the Sony City headquarte...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/10/29/sony.call.talks.ps.phone.strategy.and.tablet/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Microsoft studying iPad owners in attempt to chase Apple</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/13/ms.holding.ipad.focus.group/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1007/ipad-tvad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft revealed the pressure it feels from the iPad today as it has posted an open call on Facebook for a study of iPad owners.  The Windows developer's User Research team hopes to have two-hour focus groups at its campus between July 16 and July 21 asking owners how they use the Apple tablet.  It didn't provide any particular clues as to the direction of the research....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/13/ms.holding.ipad.focus.group/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Microsoft page curl patent could hurt Apple's iBooks</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/08/ms.page.turn.effect.could.lead.to.royalty.on.ipad/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1007/microsoftpagecurlpatent.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft has filed for a patent that could create problems for Apple's iBooks and other e-reader apps.  The technique for a "virtual page turn" would use the same design as Apple's, where readers can turn the page naturally by touching and dragging from one side of an e-book and curling the page to the other side.  It would render the page in 3D and even render the back of a page while in mid-tur...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/08/ms.page.turn.effect.could.lead.to.royalty.on.ipad/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Microsoft gets patent for now-dead Courier design</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/30/microsoft.patent.for.courier.now.approved/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1006/mscourierin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A US design patent has been discovered for the Microsoft Courier dual-screen tablet, which Microsoft canceled in the concept phase. The just-approved patent was filed on January 19 and implied Microsoft was still interested in the device even this year.  A patent by itself also signals enough interest that the company was willing to land a patent....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/30/microsoft.patent.for.courier.now.approved/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
