Microsoft Surface price leaked: from £650 A Swedish retailer has posted prices for Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablet online – and they’re a bit steep The Microsoft Surface tablet has leaked online with a price of £650 for the 32GB Windows RT model – a chunk of change more than the£600 64GB Asus Transformer Pad Infinityand considerably more than the £480 32GBApple iPad. Swedish online retailerwebhallen.comlisted Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablet on its site, with the top end version (128GB) selling for a whopping £1390....

Microsoft teams up with Barnes & Noble to enter the ebook arena The software giant and bookseller have joined forces to bring the fight to Apple and Amazon Microsoft has invested a cool US$300 million in a partnership with book seller Barnes & Noble – setting the stage for a three way fight between Amazon and Apple. The first fruits of this joint venture will emerge in the form of Barnes and Noble’s Nook app hitting Windows 8 after its expectedrelease in October....

Microsoft to reveal Xbox streaming tablet with Barnes & Noble The Redmond software giant could have Amazon’s Kindle Fire in its sights with its latest rumoured tablet UPDATE News on Microsoft’s Surface announcement coming soon… Microsoft could be teaming up with Barnes & Noble to reveal its rumoured tablet later on today, according to the latest rumours from TechCrunch. The move will pit the software giant’s mystery tablet directly against Amazon’sKindle Fireas opposed to Apple’snew iPad 3, and with Xbox streaming also on the cards, Amazon could have its feathers more than a little ruffled....

Microsoft’s Photosynth app arrives on Windows Phone Finally, this excellent panorama app has made the trip from iOS to Microsoft’s own mobile OS Microsoft has a lot of good tricks in its arsenal these days – Kinect, Xbox, Office, Skype – but it doesn’t always use them to win over new fans. Problems with the Windows Phone camera API meant that Photosynth for Windows Phone has been a long time coming but now the clever panorama app has made it to the Marketplace....

Moon director Duncan Jones to film Warcraft movie Paladins, elves, mana and more. The World of Warcraft movie gets one step closer to the big screen The world of Warcraft will soon start its journey to the big screen after Source Code and Moon director Duncan Jones confirmed that he’ll be directing Warcraft – the movie adaptation of Blizzard’s insanely successful massively multiplayer online role playing game. There’s no word on casting or a storyline for the time being, but given the vastness of the WoW universe, it’s safe to say that there’s plenty of sourse material to go on....

Motorola Motoluxe gets late February release date Moto’s social-centric blower will be hitting our shores in just a few weeks, offering a serving of Gingerbread for a wallet-friendly price Motorola has announced that its 4in, 800MHz-powered Gingerbread Motoluxe handset will be available in the UK by the end of February. Aimed at social butterflies, the Motorola Motoluxe features Moto’s Social Graph feature which learns which people you contact the most and populates your homescreen with their delightful mugs – the more you speak to someone, the bigger their picture....

Motorola RAZR Maxx release date set for May Road warriors rejoice as Moto’s razor thin smartphone relaunches with an impressive 17.6 hour’s talk time, thanks to an even bigger battery Motorola has announced that the RAZR Maxx will be release in the UK, Europe and Middle East in May. The RAZR Maxx offers the same kevlar construction and 4.3in AMOLED screen as its RAZR predecessor (reviewed here), but also manages to pack in a heftier battery, resulting in an impressive 17....