June, 2011

Hotmail: It’s fast. Is that enough?

Today over at Inside Windows Live, Dick Craddock walks us through some recent work, just released, on Hotmail, citing some impressive speed improvements.  By modernizing Hotmail to make better use of caching, pre-loading, and asynchronous operations, speed has …

HTC Eternity with front facing camera coming for Windows Phone Mango

So after the Acer W4 and the Nokia Sea Ray, details about another device lined up for Windows Phone "Mango" release later this is has been leaked – the HTC Eternity. German website HTCInside leaked the details and …

Bing Maps World Tour application updated

Hey, have you checked the Bing Maps World Tour application lately? The Tour now showcases 153 locations where Bing Maps features new outstanding high-resolution aerial imagery that is being captured and published as part of our Bing Maps Global Ortho …

Photosynth for iOS v1.1 released

Two months after the first release, the Photosynth Team released version 1.1. of the Photosynth app for iOS.

They’ve added in-app sharing via email and enhanced the saving of images to the device’s camera roll with the ability to crop. …

Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers

Microsoft has made available to developers the second IE10 platform preview.

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With the second Platform Preview, developers can start working with several site-ready HTML5 technologies for building beautiful, interactive Web applications with great performance and security. You can read the …

Facebook on Windows Phone: now with Push Notifications

There’s been quite a flurry of activity in Windows Phone land in the past few days, beginning with the long awaited arrival of Angry Birds, the release of a Mango build for developers’ devices, lots more new apps (we’ll have …

Mango is here (for developers)

Yesterday it was Angry Birds available a day early (well, after being months late), and today, developers enrolled via the Windows Phone App Hub (after paying $99) or DreamSpark members (free for students) can get “Mango” on their Windows Phones, …

Round 2: Windows Phone “Mango” beta to be available on App Hub June 30

Last week rumours were floating around that Microsoft was to make the Mango beta release available to all Windows Phone developers via the App Hub. However, Brandon Watson, Director of Windows Phone development, was quick to debunk this rumour

Custom Ringtone support in Windows Phone “Mango”

Microsoft first revealed custom ringtone support will be coming to Windows Phone "Mango" during the MIX11 conference in April. However as demo of the custom ringtone support was very brief (lasting only a few seconds) and the conference was …

Microsoft Security Essentials upgraded

A new version of Microsoft Security Essentials is available, upgrading the Security Essentials version from 2.0.657.0 to 2.1.1116.0, and the Antimalware Client version from 3.0.8107.0 to 3.0.8402.0.

We weren’t able to access the upgrade directly from MSE yet, but you …