2010

Silverlight for Symbian RTM

Silverlight for Symbian is now generally available. This brings the Silverlight experience to the, according to the team’s blog post, 20+ million users of Nokia S60 5th edition Nokia 5800 XPressMusic and Nokia N97 devices. The Beta release

New SkyDrive Logo coming

imageLooks like there is a new SkyDrive logo coming. I say looks like, as the only place it is appearing now is on the the Windows Live Preview site, as noted by LiveSino.

The new logo follows the …

New Bing Map App: Tour De France 2010

imageAnother sporty Bing Map App got released yesterday, this time for cycling fans. Le Tour de France runs from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010. The 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and …

What’s up with Spaces: Evolving, or Dead Man Walking?

After what seems like years of silence over the status and fate of Windows Live Spaces, Senior Lead Program Manager Tony East blogged yesterday about the beleaguered blogging platform.  In “The Evolution of Windows Live Spaces”, East touches …

The LiveSide Wave 4 Wiki

We hope you had the patience to wade through the hundreds of comments on our Wave 4 posts, but if you had a little trouble keeping up, well so did we.  You’ve contributed quite a bit to the discussion, …

New Bing Map App: Imagine Cup 2010

imageThe Imagine Cup 2010 finalists are in. Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense. The contest spans a year, beginning with local, regional and online …

Microsoft KIN: so much for that idea

KINlogoMicrosoft announced today that it was effectively killing its KIN phones, according to numerous news reports.  Verizon will continue to sell the phones, but there will be no European expansion, and the KIN team will be folded into Windows Phone …

Adding Polylines and Polygons in Bing Maps Apps

Currently the Bing Maps App SDK .chm documentation covers how to add Pushpins on the map, but not polylines and polygons.  When creating your entities, rather than passing in a PointPrimitive instance to the Entity.Primitive property, you can pass in …

PivotViewer available for download!

We first saw Pivot, the Live Labs project that presents visual information in fun new ways, last November at PDC, and then this year at Tech-Ed, Live Labs announced that a new “PivotViewer” Silverlight control would be introduced, …

Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone passes one million downloads!

Wow, lots of iPhone users are using Windows Live Messenger from their iPhone. In just 5 days over one million people downloaded the Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone that got released last week.

But not only iPhone users …