XBOX Live Notifications fills the one void that WP7 has with XBOX Live, quick access and notifications of friends signing on and off. It provides true push notifications when selected friends sign on, and updates a live tile with the number of users online.

Using two of Microsoft’s X-Box Kinects to capture a full 3D scene that can pivot in any direction without moving the two Kinects.

Consider this, you sit down in the living room and pick up a video game controller, right as your spouse grabs the remote for the latest episode of Eureka. Who wins? Soon we may have a true compromise.

At this year’s South By Southwest Conference in Austin, we had a brief discussion with Loke Uei Tan, Senior Technical Product Manager, Mobile Developer Experience for Microsoft, about the new Windows Phone 7 Series.

Associated Content recently published an interesting point of view on the timing of Microsoft’s banning of Xbox 360 consoles and how that has affected Christmas sales.