March, 2010

Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now

It appeared briefly last week, then got pulled…what oh what would that be? Silverlight for Symbian!

The good news is, it is back! You can now download Silverlight for Nokia Symbian (S60 5th Edition) devices such as Nokia 5800 …

Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs

In amongst all the Windows Phone and IE9 goodness (and a distinct lack of Windows Live news), we had a chance at Mix10 this week to catch up with an old friend we’ve never actually met face-to-face, Vikram Dendi of …

MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2

Today at MIX10, Dean Hachamovitch unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview including expanded support for HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new JavaScript engine.

Starting at MIX10, developers will be able to track Microsoft’s progress and provide …

Live Mix Day 2

As usual, lots going on here in Las Vegas, with the usual internet connectivity issues, rogue software updates, long hallways, and too much to do in too little time, but we survived Day 1 intact, and now we’re on to …

MIX10 – Day 1

0647.mix_5F00_thumb_5F00_499AFC80[1] The first day of MIX10 is behind us. For those of you who’ve missed it (like myself), the full video of the Day 1 keynote is available on demand now! Let’s take a look at what went on on Day …

Mix Liveblog Day 1

Hey, we’re in the front row! Just got in to the main hall for the first day of Mix 10, Long should have pictures up soon. We’re going to go ahead and post this iframe now, just to make sure …

Windows Live Messenger Wave 4: Interoperability with Facebook chat

Wlm_logo-ic While we may or may not hear about Windows Live Wave 4 at MIX10 this year(we do try to keep our hopes up though!), recently we’ve received a few tips from sources close to Microsoft about the upcoming version of …

Embed Bing Maps Twitter Maps in your website

Chris Pendleton announced that you can now embed Bing maps Twitter Maps on your site:

We’ve just released an update to the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery. NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality

What to expect (and what not to) from Mix

mix Mix 10 starts on Monday morning (at 9am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), as Daylight Savings Time starts in the US on Sunday March 14), and we’ll be there to liveblog the event (we’ll have a post up on Monday with …

No Wave 4 (yet), but a new sign in page, Yay!

We’re all chomping at the bit for new Windows Live toys to play with, obviously,  when something as seemingly minor as a new Hotmail sign-in page generates no less than 4 tips (as always we really appreciate it)!

Sometime today …