April, 2011

Bing Rewards (US only), now on your browser

Bing released the Bing Bar in February, a quite useful tool featuring Translate, stocks, news, weather, and yes, Bing Rewards.  The problem of course is that the Bing Bar is an IE only affair, and so if you’re in …

Windows Live Profile notes are no more! [Update: and neither are private messages]

At the bottom of your profile page, there was an opportunity to leave a note. WAS, yes, the feature is no more, as cleverly noticed by Winston.

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  • Effective April 21, 2011 the ‘Notes’ option on a user’s (Live

Microsoft and Nokia signs partnership agreement

Nokia Windows PhonesThis one just came in. Microsoft and Nokia has just signed a definitive agreement on the partnership which was announced earlier in February before Mobile World Congress. According to the official press release, the partnership involves:

  • Nokia to

Bing announces Read/Write World: expanding connections between maps and imagery

rww-bingBing has been making a steady stream of announcements regarding the connection of maps to images for quite some time now, from geo-located PhotoSynths to Streetside and StreetSlide imagery to live video in maps, the work that Blaise Aguera …

Yahoo and Microsoft: is the honeymoon over?

Yahoo_Logo_3This week a couple of news items seem to suggest that Microsoft and Yahoo, while still closely linked via their Search agreement, are beginning to air their differences.  As both partners and competitors, this is probably to be expected, but …

Hotmail Wave 5 to get HTML5 offline storage support – replacing Windows Live Mail?

Windows Live HotmailWe know that Microsoft had been working on a HTML5 version of Bing, which was released to a lucky few recently. But Microsoft is slated to go “all in” with HTML5, with Mary Jo Foley received a tip today …

Windows Phone (post Walshie) gets a “Samsung update”

A couple of weeks ago, after Microsoft released a “Windows Phone Support Tool”, complete with wide open dlls that allowed ChevronWP7 “homebrew” hacker Chris Walsh to create his own little NoDo updater tool, we crossed our fingers and updated our …

Can Windows Phone turn a post-NoDo corner?

It hasn’t been the best of launches for Windows Phone.  Starting off late last year with short supplies at launch both in the US and in Europe, a late start for the Dell Venue Pro, and then a string of …

New from Bing Mobile: PhotoSynth for the iPhone

More from the Bing/iPhone camp, the latest news comes via a tweet that there’s a new PhotoSynth app now available for the iPhone.

The app allows you to capture images, create PhotoSynths, and share them to PhotoSynth.net, …

Leaked Windows 8 system resources confirms cloud syncing capabilities

Back in November last year, LiveSide reported that Windows 8 will have cloud-based identity and roaming settings. Earlier this month through leaked screenshots of Windows Explorer in Windows 8 we saw that Windows 8 might be having Windows Live