February, 2010

Live ID issue due to problem server (now fixed)

Just a follow-up on this morning’s Live ID sign in issues, the problem lasted for about an hour, as explained by Arthur de Haan on the Inside Windows Live blog:

As some of you may have noticed (we heard

Windows Phone 7 Series: Bold move for Microsoft

WP7logo Today at MWC in Barcelona, Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 7 Series, its new look software platform for Windows Phones, to be delivered by “Holiday Season 2010”.  First, a note that Microsoft pulled off a surprisingly clean announcement, …

Windows Phone press conference (someone peeked!)

Just getting ready to watch the Windows Phone Press conference (http://livesi.de/b1jp4j), but there are already some bits of news coming out of Barcelona.

First, it looks like someone peeked behind the curtains and found some images of the …

Windows Phone: Our first impressions (what are yours?)

WP7logo We’ve been poring over all the blog posts and tweets (when Twitter manages to stay up) about Windows Phone 7 Series, and aside from being pretty impressed, we’ve come away with a few first impressions.  Of course we’re only going …

Mobile World Congress set to begin: Global Apps Platform coming?

mwc We’re getting ready to follow all the fun in Barcelona (early) tomorrow morning (Seattle time, that is), setting up some Twitter and RSS feeds, and we already came across one little tidbit.  On the Mobile Business News RSS feed, we …

Ready… Set…Windows Phone (7 Series)

Microsoft is finally ready to start talking about “the next generation of Windows Phones” at Mobile World Congress on Monday, and there’s been a little flurry of activity this weekend with some new new info and some new rumors about …

Bing Maps at TED – Blaise’s session now available

Blaise Aguera y Arcas showed off some very cool new stuff from Bing Maps at TED a couple of days ago, and the video has just been posted, so here it is:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/766

Just a note that the Streetside Photos

Bing Maps Imagery Release, February 2010

In this release over one million square kilometers of new imagery got added. This is a very special release because, for the first time ever, Enhanced Bird’s Eye imagery got added outside of the United States!

Bird’s Eye: Italy –

MSN preview updates My Apps

Looks like the msn.com/preview has been updated, or at least the “my apps” portion of the home page.  Before, there were three tabs, for Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live, and a separate Hotmail section, but now two new apps have …

More from TED: Dr. Gary Flake presents Pivot, now available for download

More news from the TED conference, this time it’s Dr. Gary Flake presenting Pivot, a Live Labs project that just “wouldn’t have been possible five years ago”:

Pivot is an experimental technology that allows people to visualize data