March, 2010

My Phone Updated

MyPhoneLogo_5F00_415F4F05[1] An updated version of Microsoft My Phone (v. 01.06.22718.0001) for Windows Mobile 6+ is now available for download from the site or Microsoft Download Center.

If you are already running Microsoft My Phone You will receive a notification on …

Bing in Spring

There are going to be some changes to Bing. Today at SES New York the Bing team shared their plans to begin testing some new Bing features as they are moving into he next wave of innovation rolling out later …

Embed Bing Maps Twitter Maps: Internationalization/fixed map issue [updated]

Remember how we found there was a internationalization issue with embedding Bing Maps Twitter Maps? Users outside the US were not able to view those set to fixed. Ravi, one of the Microsoft devs who worked on this, …

Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 beta available

A public beta of Microsoft Messenger for Mac version 8 (build #08.00.00.100305) was released a few days ago, after nearly two years between updates.  Looks like there’s still quite a ways to go, judging from the Known Issues in the …

Behind the scenes: Photo sharing on SkyDrive

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of photo sharing on Skydrive? Over on Inside Windows Live, Eric Doerr wrote an interesting post about it. For example did you know that they store four copies …

Free Bing T-Shirt

image The Bing team and the Xbox Live team have a surprise for you! You can now dress your Xbox Live Avatar in a Bing t-shirt!

How? Head on over to Bing, make sure you have Bing set to United …

Bing & Decide Second UK advert

The second of three TV ads will air from Thursday 18th March across ITV, Channel 4, Five and their portfolio of TV services as well as Sky Media and IDS digital channels including Bravo, Dave, GOLD, Living TV and Good …

Hotmail: The New Busy

You may have noticed a number of ads appear recently for Hotmail, with the tagline “The New Busy”.  There’s even a website to promote the campaign, and now today the rapidly changing Windows Live Log-In page is featuring what appears …

ICE now uploads to Photosynth

The latest release of Image Composite Editor (ICE) has a “Publish to Photosynth” button. That’s right, you can now upload your full-resolution panoramas to Microsoft Photosynth for easy sharing on the web. 
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Photosynth is Microsoft’s unique technology for reconstructing 3D …

Bing updates for iPhone, broadcasters (and more to come)

Time to catch up on a couple of news items about Bing that may have slipped your attention, what with all the Wave 4 leaks and Windows Phone news.

bingiphone1 First, a new Bing for iPhone app is now available.  …