July, 2008

Live Mesh available for all US Live IDs (?)

Picturepan2 just tipped us that Live Mesh seems to be open and available if you have a US Live ID.  I just tried one of my backup accounts and got right in.  We don’t see any announcement from the Live …

Live Mesh Is Open, But With A Cap?

We previously reported that Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open. Well it is according to the Live Mesh Forum Announcement, but with a possible cap by the looks of it! We apparently created quite a stir in the

Microsoft ad spend rises to $500m – Windows.com gets “FTP” update and promotes Windows Live

Today saw another Microsoft ad campaign being won by the agencies, this time for the Business Solutions unit, with $200m being the amount touted for winning the enterprise advertising. This is in addition to the $300m for the consumer …

Carl Icahn spins a different story on latest MSFT-YHOO deal

On Saturday we got the Yahoo! spin on things, and now this morning Carl Icahn fires back, in an open letter to Yahoo! shareholders.  I mentioned the heavy amount of spin in the Yahoo! press release, and Icahn noticed, too:…

Yahoo! rejects latest doozy from Microsoft/Carl Icahn

Microsoft and Carl Icahn proposed a new offer to Yahoo! on Friday, and according to the Yahoo! press release (if you can believe Yahoo! press releases, and a college level course on “public relations spin” could be taught using only …

Live Mesh tutorial: Synchronising browser favourites across devices

With yesterday’s Live Mesh update that allows users to enable peer-to-peer synchronisation and miss out the cloud sync, we thought we’d take a look at one practical example of this – browser favourites. The scenario is familiar, you’re not on …

Live Mesh : Service Update: New Build, New Features Coming Today (0.9.3103.2)

Today is the release of the next major update for Live Mesh. Performance has been improved and new features added. As before this update will be completely automatic, but if you do not wish to wait for the new …

MobileMe Review

After our original post on MobileMe we came in for some criticism for our rather pro-Apple attitude. Our initial thoughts were that Apple had shown a compelling set of products, that showed some nice design touches and boasted strong integration …

Check out LiveSide on your new iPhone!

OK if you to have to go out and buy a new iPhone, that doesn’t mean you can’t keep up with the latest Windows Live news and information, and in style.

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A few months ago we wanted to make it …

Cheap and Easy Online Helpdesk

A lot of professional sites are now including a means of real time chat as part of their helpdesk sites. MSDN has their online concierge service, Dell has an online help, AT&T etc.  So how do you do this type …