February, 2011

Digital Artist creates (very cool) Windows Phone ad concept

Brandon Foy, a post-graduate intern at Full Sail University in Florida, has created a website and posted his concept video ad, titled “We Love WP7

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We don’t have much other information on the video or the artist

MVP Summit, SxSWi, Mix 2011: the LiveSide event planner

We’ve been trying to keep our Windows Live Calendar current with upcoming events, and it’s definitely filling up as we head into spring.

First up is the Microsoft MVP Summit – LiveSide started when a group of us met through …

Google Cloud Connect? Meh, says Microsoft

11550Google announced Cloud Connect this week, a free plugin for Microsoft Office that allows users to sync, edit and store Microsoft Documents in Google Apps, either by converting them to Google Docs, or leaving the files as Office Documents.  Microsoft …

A Live Mesh beta deadpool reminder

live mesh logoAn email reminder was sent out today by Windows Live to Live Mesh beta participants, reminding them that the beta will be completely shut down on March 31, and any data stored on the Live Mesh beta servers will be …

Bing brings Price Predictors to the search box

Bing already provides quick price predictions for some major US markets using its Farecast technology, but today they’re introducing an even faster way to get predictions and quick flight cost information, this time right from within the search bar:…

New Samsung Focus ad: What if?

Picture 8487What if, indeed.  What if Microsoft and its partners started showing off some of the cool and unique features of Windows Phone, instead of allowing the conversation to be dominated by talk of failed updates?  What if Microsoft spokespeople were …

Bing rolls out Facebook Like results for all US users

In a blog post today, The Bing Team has announced that Facebook Like results for any of the URLs returned by the Bing algorithmic search results will now be included in US search results:

If your friends have publicly liked

Windows Phone: does your phone update faster?

Our friend Tom Warren at WinRumors.com has been busy scouring the interwebs for Windows Phone news, with updated information on some Windows Phone update problems, and an early draft of some upcoming Windows Phone commercials. 

We told you yesterday that …

Bing Tiles update and clarification: they’re not “sponsored”

Just received some new information about Bing Tiles, coming from a Microsoft spokesperson, and they were kind enough to send over some screenshots.  As you can see, the Tiles appear on the right, as Stefan Weitz whiteboarded, and …

Windows Live Spaces to close March 16th, remember?

The Windows Live Team sent out an email reminder today that Windows Live Spaces will be closing for good on March 16th.  The timing has been announced before, but it’s getting down to crunch time if you’re still using Spaces …