February, 2013

Bing Maps adds high resolution, ocean floor imagery

bing maps satellite orthoBing Maps continues to improve their aerial imagery, announcing today new date provided by TerraColor to present seamless satellite imagery for zoomed out views, new bathymetric (ocean floor) data from Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and  new high resolution satellite imagery …

Windows Phone 7.8 delayed: from beta tester to guinea pig?

guinea-pig-5Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7.8, the upgrade to Windows Phone 7.5 devices that adds new Live Tile functionality and a few fixes and improvements, last month.  The update, as is common with many Microsoft releases, is using a …

IE 10 for Windows 7 released

ie-10-logoSome four months after the release of Windows 8 and its browser, IE 10, Microsoft today has made IE 10 for Windows 7 available for download.  In two blog posts, one on the IE blog and another on the Windows

Nokia at MWC: expanded lineup, more to come

four phonesAt MWC in Barcelona today (well 11:30 pm Sunday here in Seattle), Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage to introduce a new range of Asha and Lumia phones, bringing the price point for Nokia phones downward while promising more …

Office Web Apps on SkyDrive updated with new features

Ofc_Orng166_rgbMicrosoft released the final Office Web Apps to the latest version in line with Office 2013 back in October last year, but that doesn’t mean the work stops there. On the official Office blog today, Microsoft detailed the latest …

Nokia Lumia 520 and 720 device renders leaks, Nokia “Laser” passes FCC, and Nokia tablet spotted in the wild

NokiaWith less than 3 days to go until Mobile World Congress 2013, details about upcoming Nokia Windows Phone devices are making headlines all over the internet. We previously reported that the Nokia Lumia 520 (codenamed “Flame”) and Lumia 720 (codenamed …

Upcoming events: MWC next week, and Xbox in April?

prod_xboxinfo_heroYesterday, Sony previewed their next generation gaming system, the PS4, in New York City, showing off some impressive new graphics and gaming announcements while never actually showing off the PS4 console.  Now today rumors are surfacing that Microsoft’s Xbox, planning …

That thing about Calendar

Windows_Live_Calendar_logoMicrosoft took the Preview tag off of Outlook.com this week, and told us to “stay tuned” for an update to Calendar, the long overdue “modern” update to one of the last remnants we have of the Windows Live look.  While …

Outlook.com out of Preview; fires up new marketing campaign

outlookcomIn a post on the Outlook.com blog tonight, Microsoft announced that Outlook.com, which launched last July, has shed its Preview classification and is ready to face the world, complete with a new marketing campaign and a new tagline “email …

Skype news: Messenger shutting down, new Video Messages, and lots of growth

skypeThis week, Skype updated its client for Mac and Windows, and if you’re using Skype on a Mac, or iOS or Android, you’ll be able to make use of a new, beta, feature, Video Messaging.  News of the video …