Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson is the Media Editor for SiliconANGLE, and is a long time computer and Internet watcher having seen both develop for the cutting edge days of the XT right through to the mobile revolution. He has also spent many years writing about our world's fascination with technology and social media often with a critical eye, both on his own for sites like Mashable and The Inquistr. He currently spends his time recovering from tech and social media overload by hanging out with, and writing about, geeks and the things they love.

Latest from Steven Hodson

Microsoft’s Belfiore Sorry for Appearing Insensitive with Windows Phone Statements

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

n a Channel 9 interview on March 25, Joe Belfiore made a few statements regarding the whole update mess that is plaguing Windows Phone 7 that saw quite a bit of backlash right across the tech blogosphere, including my post on the …

Microsoft Launches a “Where’s My Phone” Page for Windows Phone 7 Users

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

Where’s My Phone Update page -select local (click for bigger view) For as much promise that Windows Phone 7 held for both Microsoft and consumers, the smartphone platform is facing a lot of negative feelings when it comes to its update process. …

Microsoft Goes on the Offensive, Shuts Down the Biggest E-Mail Spam Botnet

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

30 million spam emails a day. That is how many that the Rustock email spamming network was putting out until it suddenly went dark, and Internet security experts didn’t have a clue as to why. Well it turns out that Microsoft, along …

Talk About an Update Dance – All Versions of Internet Explorer in 8 Minutes

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

A few weeks ago we saw the video of Andrew Tait as he upgraded every version of Windows from DOS to Windows 7 go viral on the web. Well he’s back folks and this time he takes us through the upgrading of …

Zune Desktop and Podcasts: A Bit of a Mess

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

I am a big fan of the Zune Desktop application, and for the most part it works pretty flawlessly. For the most part. Except when it comes to podcasts for some reason. I have been using Zune Desktop for the better part …

Microsoft Ups its Donation to #SupportJapan

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

Over the weekend there was a big kerfuffle following a tweet posted by Bing where they were willing to donate $1 for every retweet of their original message up to a maximum of $100,000. In the mess that followed, the social media …

Nevermind that Silly Sheen #tigerblood, Bing’s Bringing #kittenblood to SXSW

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

For those of you that have been hiding out under a rock, you might not have heard that there is a really big tech event going in Austin Texas this coming week. It’s something called SXSWi (otherwise known as South X SouthWest …

Microsoft Still Accounting for Workers in Japanese Earthquake Aftermath

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

The earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 has been devastating for the country on the whole, and as it tries to pick up the pieces, companies like Microsoft are assessing the damage done to their offices as well as trying …

Microsoft to Keep IE Developer Previews Flowing until Internet Explorer 10

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON15 YEARS AGO

This is definitely a change of pace for Microsoft, but according to Tom Warren at Winrumors Microsoft plans on keeping up with the developer previews of their future work on Internet Explorer even though IE9 is being released on March 14. In …

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Trial Apps proving to Be Successful

NEWS By STEVEN HODSON16 YEARS AGO

On March 8, 2011 the Windows Phone Developer Blog posted about some changes that have been made when it comes to the Marketplace policies as well as some regional access info and general tips. There were a couple of things that caught …

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