Microsoft has filed a complaint against the current owner of the websites Xboxone.com and Xboxone.net, just days after the company revealed its new next-gen console, the Xbox One. The company revealed the console, which had previously been called the Xbox 720 or Durango, on Tuesday, May 21. Microsoft announced that the console would be available by the end of 2013.

Microsoft filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) on May 23, and its case number (1501205) is currently listed as pending in the forum’s domain dispute database. Both website domains are registered to London resident Krasimir Hristov Ivanov, who bought the domains on December 29, 2011, according to domain registration search engine WhoIs.

A Microsoft representative told IGN, “Microsoft’s domain name portfolio is a part of its ongoing business strategy, but beyond that we have no comment.”

Microsoft has filed domain disputes in the past, and the cases generally end in Microsoft’s favor. In 2003, a Canadian high school student named Mike Rowe registered the name MikeRoweSoft.com for his part-time web design business. Microsoft considered the domain to be trademark infringement, due to its phonetic resemblance to the trademarked company name, and demanded that Rowe give up the domain. Rowe asked to be compensated for giving up the domain, and Microsoft gave him the $10 he spent to register the domain. Rowe then asked for $10,000 because he was “mad” at the original offer, and Microsoft responded with a 25-page cease and desist order.

The company accused the high school senior of cybersquatting, a practice in which someone uses a domain name in an attempt to profit from someone else’s trademark. The cybersquatter will then offer to sell the domain to the company that owns the trademark for a large price. Mike Rowe and Microsfoft eventually settled out of court, and Microsoft gained control of the domain. The company also paid Rowe’s expenses, and gave him and his family an all-expenses paid trip the Microsoft Research Tech Vest at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The company also gave Rowe training for Microsoft certification.

In this particular case, neither Xboxone.com or Xboxone.net are being used for anything, which may help Microsoft prove cybersquatting, even despite the timing of the websites’ registration.

Do you think Microsoft will win its against against the owner of Xboxone.com and Xboxone.net?

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Seeing greener pastures in the land of Google , Yahoo ! may be looking to opt out of a search deal it brokered with Microsoft ’s search engine, Bing.

Yahoo! linked up with Microsoft as part of a 2009 agreement to allow the Redmond, Washington-based company to power its searches. Since web browsers prefer to have Google as their search engines, Yahoo!’s overall hold on the U.S. search market has dropped from over 14% to 11.8% over the past year, according to a report by research and analytics firm Trefis. 

For Yahoo! this is a big deal as search ads makes up approximately 14% of the company’s value and, though its search ad revenue has increased, its revenue per search metrics are below industry averages.

The 10-year deal, which went into effect in 2010, gives Microsoft 12% of the revenue Yahoo! generates from search ads that appear next to search results. The drop in market share has an opt-out clause that would allow either party to walk away from the agreement in mid 2015.

Yahoo!’s recent acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1 billion dollars, as well as a number of smaller deals that gave the company innovative staff and tech (think Summly) show that CEO Marissa Mayer is serious about bringing the company back to the relevance it enjoyed in previous years. If there’s a chance of improving its search and revenue generation by parting ways with Bing and partnering with Google’s search power, you’d better bet she’ll take it.

This is bad news for Microsoft as its market share has shown an increase of 1.6% due to its deal with Yahoo!

Yahoo! might also beef up its own search products but, according to Trefis analysts, that could take time and time costs money and market share.

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On the inside is a 1080p camera -- a huge step up from the VGA sensor on the original Kinect. The new motion controller processes a stunning two gigabits of data per second to accurately read your environment. Everything about this second iteration of the Kinect is more accurate, in fact, from the number of reference points on your skeleton it monitors down to its ability to read your heartbeat. And it's powerful enough to bring that increased fidelity to not just one, but six skeletons simultaneously (should you have enough room in your pad for that many players). It even has the ability to talk to the standard Xbox controller for some Move-like functionality. Lift the remote and you'll lift your shield in the game, for example. For Microsoft, the Kinect is what ties the Xbox One experience together.

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