April, 2009

Windows Live Calendar Update!

Have you noticed any problems with Windows Live Calendar, with Birthday Calendars in particular? They should be fixed now, the team posted the following message:

We’ve just finished updating Live Calendar to fix up some of the problematic

Happy Earth Day!

image Today is Earth Day, a day designated nearly 40 years ago to inspire awareness of and appreciation for our environment. But it isn’t easy to be green, according to this study from MSN. Nearly 70 percent of people …

Sifting through Trademark applications: Kumo, or Sift, or who knows what?

All this business about what the new name for Live Search might be has a lot of blog writers and journalists turning over all kinds of rocks, including lots of fun with TESS, the US Patent and Trademark Office’s …

Coming Next Week: New Web Activities And Contact Importing From MySpace, Hi5 And Tagged

fpcomplete_thumb[1] Yes, we’ve been waiting for this! In the next few days, 20 new feed partners will be added to Windows Live, so you can add all your activities on for example Facebook, Digg, Last.fm, SmugMug, and …

Web IM In Hotmail

Web IM is coming to Hotmail. It became available to users in France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month and starting today it will roll out to Brazil, Canada, China

More Windows Live Mobile Wave 3 Updates for Hotmail, Messenger and Home

Last time we told you about the new Windows Live Hotmail Mobile beta. Yesterday the team on Windows Live Wire announced that the new Windows Live Hotmail for mobile is now final! Together with the announcement, the team also …

AT&T Launches Child Locator Service With Virtual Earth

AT&TfammapWorried about your child’s whereabouts when he/she isn’t at home? AT&T just launched a service, called FamilyMap, that allows you to follow your child in real time via his/her mobile phone (yep, it does require your child to have …

Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix!

Just two days ago, we were wondering if the Deep Zoom Composer will be updated for use with DeepZoomPix, as it previously supported uploading to PhotoZoom. Wonder no more! It has indeed been updated and you can download it, …

Spaces Team shuts down their blog (eh, what?)

spacecraft From the News of the Weird Department, the team that makes the blogging software for Microsoft, Windows Live Spaces, has decided to shut down their, umm, blog.  Posts on The Space Craft and Windows Live Wire announced on Friday …

Windows Live Video Messages joins the Wave 3 family too, update coming soon! (Updated)

Vmessages The Windows Live Video Messages team just announced on their blog that their website will get an update in two weeks. Included in this update will be a change in the header to match the rest of the Windows …