September, 2011

Nokia “Sabre” confirmed by Microsoft Canada – coming with 3.7” screen and Nokia Drive?

Looks like besides the Nokia “Sea Ray”, there is another Nokia Windows Phone coming – codenamed Nokia Sabre. According to WPCentral, a Microsoft Canada Mango app contest page accidently leaked out references to several yet-to-be released Windows …

New Xbox 360 dashboard update coming November 15?

Back at the E3 expo, Microsoft revealed the new Metro-styled Xbox 360 dashboard update, which includes a Kinect-based motion and voice-controlled experience as well as Bing search integration (and a whole lot more!). Said to be due in late …

Microsoft Security Essentials detects Chrome as “trojan”: releases fix

Earlier today reports began amassing in a Google Chrome forum that Microsoft Security Essentials was detecting the PWS:Win32/Zbot trojan as being present in Google Chrome, and removing the web browser from user machines once they had consented to remove the …

Bing offers Airport Maps

A new Bing Maps blog post today announces the introduction of Bing Airport Maps.  Similar to the Shopping Mall maps already available, the new maps are available either by searching for an airport, or searching for your flight status …

Office Web Apps adds new features

Office Web Apps is adding some new features today, making it easier to use OneNote and Excel, and a number of behind the scenes improvements to make it faster and more reliable.

First, in OneNote, you can now use ink …

Hey! News from Zune!! Music Pass coming to Canada, US changes

From Zune Insider comes some actual news about Zune, and “Zune Music” specifically:

We are excited to announce that Zune Music Marketplace and Zune Music Pass will roll out in Canada on October 3rd

First, Canadian music lovers will be …

Hotmail to save Messenger chat conversation history?

windows_live_hotmailToday two of our LiveSino readers report that their recent Windows Live Messenger chat history is showing up within Hotmail, somewhat similar to Google Talk chat history inside Gmail.

As one tipster TurnRight commented, once Windows Live Messenger chat …

Yesterday, Mango: today, Windows Phone SDK RTW

The Mango blog post on the Windows Phone blog hinted as much, but a new blog post on the Windows Phone Developer blog makes it official:

I’m pleased to announce that the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 RTW release is

Microsoft and mindshare: can Mango be cool in the mall?

GeekSquadLots of news around Microsoft’s latest update to Windows Phone today, as Mango was announced, and amazingly (with a little help from an undocumented “trick”), the update is flowing out, people are happy, and there’s even quite a little …

Mango begins shipping, to “98% of existing Windows Phone customers”

mango cupcakeIf we had a cupcake, we’d send it to Joe Belfiore, Eric Hautula, Brandon Watson and company at Windows Phone, for over-delivering on the Windows Phone Mango update, which, according to a Windows Phone blog post, began shipping …