July, 2011

Here we go again, Bing changes spotted in the wild

Looks like the on again off again Bing HTML5 rumors may be on again, along with some other quite interesting changes some are reporting seeing to the Bing home page.

First, the home page changes.  Rafael Rivera posted today on …

Devs getting lots of love today: Azure, Mango, Windows Live announcements

A trio of announcements for developers (and developer wannabes) today coming from various parts of Microsoft, all intending to make it easier to write and deploy your apps.  We’ll start with Windows Live, because, well, we’re LiveSide!

Dare Obasanjo posted

Microsoft talks more about Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango”

We reported a few weeks ago that Microsoft had been testing Twitter integration on Windows Phone “Mango” and Windows Live internally. Today, the Windows Phone team posted several new videos on their YouTube account, with various program managers talking …

Gigwalk to bring 3D Panoramas to Bing–from your iPhone

Gigwalk-logoBing is partnering with a new 9 week old company, Gigwalk, “the first on-demand mobile workforce” to bring 3D Photosynth panoramas of retail stores and restaurants into Bing Maps.  Gigwalk uses a mobile workforce of iPhone users who download

ITC ruling against HTC’s Android may push OEMs to adopt Windows Phone; Huawei now interested

Apple vs HTCThe U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently ruled against HTC that it had infringed two patents belonging to Apple Inc., according to reports from AllThingsD.com. At least one of the patent, 5,946,647, appears to be related to Google’s …

Nokia WP7 Sea Ray video emerges

The guys at WPCentral have spotted a Youku (a Chinese version of YouTube) video showing Nokia’s first Windows Phone device, code named Sea Ray.  The video shows a little unboxing ceremony, (note the actual hardware buttons for home, search, and …

Games for Windows Marketplace now on Xbox.com; wild rumors on Xbox and Windows 8 integration, and more

Two weeks ago we reported that Games for Windows Marketplace is slated to be migrated to Xbox.com, potentially being the first step for the convergence of Xbox LIVE across the Xbox 360, Windows Phone, and the Windows PC. Today, …

Twitter and Microsoft: What’s the deal?

twitter-bird2A post at All Things D yesterday revealed that, after Twitter and Google parted ways (at least temporarily) recently, things maybe aren’t going so well in negotiations to renew the relationship between Twitter and Bing.

Bing, like Google, signed a …

Microsoft FUSE Labs releases CompanyCrowd – a social content aggregator for businesses

Microsoft FUSE Labs just released a brand new project – called the “CompanyCrowd”. This new research project is aimed at businesses or individuals which helps them easily aggregate social and media content from around the internet about a particular company …

First images of ZTE Windows Phone “Mango” devices revealed

Details of new Windows Phone “Mango” devices keeps coming out. We first had information about the new Fujitsu Windows Phone yesterday, and today images of potential ZTE Windows Phone devices have been revealed.

Dr. Luo Zhong Sheng, General Manager of …