Gadgetory

hey it's Monday June 25th 2012 and you're about to spend 90 seconds on the verge I'm Josh Topolsky editor-in-chief of The Verge and if you're wondering what you're watching right now it's our new daily video show where we give you the most important stories in about a minute and a half Microsoft is on a spending spree they just dropped 1.2 billion dollars on yeah more the enterprise social networking service now if that sounds like a lot of money don't get too excited they spent eight point five billion on skype recently company CEO Steve Ballmer says that the product will remain separate but will become a fundamental part of the office family so congratulations yeah more unfortunately you have to share a room with outlook elsewhere on the news is mounting evidence that Google is really going to release its own tablet this week at its IO event Gizmodo australia published info that they say is from a leaked training document detailing the device apparently it's gonna be seven inches it'll be manufactured by Asus will have a Tegra chipset inside and will start selling for the price of $199 with a $249 option that has more storage the tablet will likely be the first device running jellybean the next version of Android but you don't have to take my word for it we're gonna be out there covering the event live so I would just keep refreshing the verge until something new appears and finally Nokia is selling a smartphone that is not a Windows Phone device it's called the 808 PureView and it's got a 41 megapixel camera and it runs Symbian which is basically a dead operating system the device can't be purchased in America yet but it is up for pre-order and amazon for the low and attractive price of $699 we reviewed the phone and give it a 6 point one which is probably pretty generous though it does take really beautiful pictures actually it would make a great companion to a real smartphone and that's all the news for the day we'll be back tomorrow when we're taking a look at hoverboards they're cool but are they safe