Exclusive: SkyDrive.com to get built-in Photosynth 3D panorama mode

SkyDrive logoEarlier this month, Microsoft added an improved “all photos” experience to SkyDrive.com, new document thumbnail layouts, full-resolution photo uploads for global Windows Phones, as well as under-the-hood performance tweaks to speed up uploading times. However, the SkyDrive team is also looking at ways to improve the service, and LiveSide has recently learnt that Microsoft is planning to add support for uploading and viewing 3D panorama within SkyDrive.com in the future.

LiveSide understands that the 3D panorama experience on SkyDrive.com will be based on Photosynth technology. Currently, Photosynth which allow users to capture 360° panoramas from a single location using an app for iOS and Windows… read more

Rumor: More Nokia “EOS” specifications leaked, to be announced on July 9?

Rumors about the Nokia “EOS”, the Windows Phone with a true 41MP PureView camera, had been circulating since January this year. Later on in April, MyNokiaBlog detailed some… Read more

Rumor: More Nokia “EOS” specifications leaked, to be announced on July 9?

Bing adds Carousel to News search

Microsoft is betting big on “Satori”, the code name for the Bing technology that attempts to understand relationships between “the people, places and things around us”,… Read more

Bing adds Carousel to News search

Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin

Today, on the Bing Search blog, Bing Director Stefan Weitz posted on some thoughts he and his team had while watching last week’s Google I/O keynote.  Weitz starts off by summing… Read more

Spinning the Bing – Google I/O spin

More Xbox One details emerge: TV integration, Second-hand play, more

Microsoft wanted to make today’s Xbox One announcements about “big themes”, but of course, with all the attention of the gaming world focused on a tent in Redmond, that isn’t… Read more

More Xbox One details emerge: TV integration, Second-hand play, more

New Xbox Revealed as Xbox One

After months of speculation, Microsoft has now officially announced the new Xbox. Following a brief introductory video, Don Mattrick, President of Interactive Entertainment… Read more

New Xbox Revealed as Xbox One

Xbox: revealing

Today is the big day for Xbox news, as Microsoft has gathered members of the press and others together on the Microsoft campus, all under a big ass tent (it’s been raining all night… Read more

Xbox: revealing

Live Chat coming to Bing?

Chat has been a hot topic this week, what with the addition of Google contacts into Outlook.com and the backlash it caused coming from Google, new abilities to chat from within SkyDrive… Read more

Live Chat coming to Bing?

Xbox gets a new official blog: The Wire

Just in time for next week’s Xbox Reveal event, where Microsoft will for the first time unveil its next generation Xbox (Xboxes?), a new blog, Xbox Wire, debuted today:

Xbox’s… Read more

Xbox gets a new official blog: The Wire

Microsoft and Google: is this war?

Some shots were fired back and forth today between Microsoft and Google in a series of exchanges both from the stage at Google I/O, and behind the scenes with some well placed leaks… Read more

Microsoft and Google: is this war?