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Windows Live for mobile Wave 3 – take your social life on the go

Since Wave 3 first surfaced, we’ve been talking about the Windows Live Essentials clients suite, and we’ve been discussing the online portion of the Windows Live services, but there’s actually a third part to the Windows Live Wave 3 …

New Mobile Search Release

Phil reports that the mobile search team has been working hard, getting ready for a new release of the browser service: http://m.live.com. This service works on every mobile phone that has a browser.

So what’s in this release?

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Live Search Video, Images updated: featuring TV Show search, Bird’s Eye

Even though we’re not at PubCon, we’re loving Twitter Search, as it’s bringing us some great tidbits from the Live Search announcements from Satya Nadella’s keynote.  A number of new features are being rolled out, including the addition of …

Project Silk Road: new Live Search API version 2.0 beta

As just announced at PubCon, and now posted on Dev.Live.com, Live Search has released a “new generation of search engine API”.  Dubbed “Project Silk Road” the new version offers new interfaces through JSON, and XML over HTTP, in addition …

Live Search cashback sees “positive traction” in three key metrics

A press release timed to Satya Nadella’s keynote speech at PubCon, an online advertiser’s convention held in Las Vegas announced today that Live Search cashback “has seen positive traction in all three of the key metrics on which the company …

Windows Live Messenger, A Sneak Peek At The Update To Come

As announced in Windows Live Wave 3: our interview with Brian Hall in 2 parts, there’s a new Messenger beta (RC) coming up. Over at messengersays, Lonn posted a video showing off this new version:

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Yay, PhotoShare …

Windows Live Hotmail – an early look at some more improvements to come

Mail We’ve seen Hotmail’s interface being upgraded to Wave 3, and we’ve seen the complaints about it. But little do we know, apart from a few hints from this blog post, that what we’ve seen is only half …

Windows Live FrameIt – new partners, coming to a photo frame near you!

FrameIt We previously talked about Windows Live FrameIt, but we never found any practical use for it, besides a vision into the future with some Live Mesh integration. With today’s Windows Live Wave 3 announcement, Windows Live FrameIt …

Windows Live SkyDrive – what’s to come in the next update

SkyDrive We saw today that there’s a major announcement about Windows Live Wave 3 to be released across all services soon, and one of the updated service is Windows Live SkyDrive. The SkyDrive team were one of the first to post …

Windows Live People Review – Your new Windows Live address book

WL PeopleWith the announcement of the Windows Live Wave 3 (web) services today, there are a few new service names that have popped into the mix. One of these is Windows Live People and this new address book features all of …