Kind of a funny deal today as FedEx delivered a package this morning.  We kind of knew what it might be due to a tweet from Paul Thurrott, so out came the camera for the great Hotmail Birthday Cake …

Today, Facebook and Skype announced Facebook Video Calling, basically a “mini Skype client” running within Facebook, allowing you to video chat one on one with any of your Facebook friends.  Our friend Rafael Rivera, already digging through the …

Facebook is set to make a major product announcement today at 10:am PDT (in 5 minutes from this posting) widely thought to involve a partnership or deal with Skype, which was recently acquired by Microsoft (although that deal, while …

HoTMaiL, the first HTML enabled free email service, was launched on July 4th, 1996 by two former Stanford students, Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, making yesterday Hotmail’s 15th birthday.

The two sold Hotmail to an investment company and it was …

Later today Bing is set to release an updated version of its popular iPad app, including an improved movie experience, a “swipe through the last 6 Bing homepage images” feature, and hundreds of quality and performance improvements.

What’s most interesting …

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Dropbox, the free (up to 2gb, with a paid option for more space) service that promises to easily store and sync “your stuff”.  First, on June 19th, Dropbox, owing to a code …

Back in May 2010, we reported a rumor that Microsoft and Baidu were to reach a search deal in China. Today, Microsoft China officially announced the search partnership between the companies, where Microsoft will provide all English-language search results for …

Microsoft discontinued support for the Twitter connected service in Windows Live back in June 2010 due to policy changes made on Twitter’s end, and never reached an agreement with Twitter since then to make it available again. During Mobile World …

If you ever tried access Live.com using your mobile browser, you’d notice that most Windows Live web services have a corresponding mobile version that is optimised for touch screens and smaller screen sizes. To give you a bit of history, …

Zune Originals, the official online store for Zune devices, has closed its doors as of July 1st.  A page on the site (www.zuneoriginals.net) offers up thanks for all the fish, and continues to throw “damning with faint praise” …