With all the fuss in recent weeks about Apple’s dismal failure with MobileMe, in particular around providing a stable and reliable service, its interesting to see that today Google is having issues also. With Gmail down, Twitter is on …

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Looks like its open-season on Wave 3 now, with Inky over at Mess.be getting his hands on the Wave 3 Milestone 1 installer for …

Apparently not content with having one team blog, the Windows Live Agents team have another blog on the MSDN blog network. This new iteration starts off with a series of best practice posts for developing Live Agents and then …

It looks like Microsoft will soon be shipping new versions of its webcam hardware line, the LifeCam. Some electronics retailers are already showing the VX-5500 and the LifeCam Show in their product listings, for $60 and $80 respectively.

As always …

Our friend Picturepan2 at LiveSino has again done some more investigative reporting in Windows Live Help revealing and confirming Wave 3 features in Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar. Here’s a summary of what’s discovered:

• Windows Live Photo Gallery

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This is the fifth article I have written on a technique to add high performance shape rendering to the Virtual Earth map control. Every article has been an evolution introducing new technologies, extending the functionality and optimising the algorithm. Although …

Apparently the shroud of secrecy that surrounds Windows Live and Wave 3 doesn’t extend to help files, as our friend Picturepan2 at LiveSino.net discovered as he was snooping around doing some investigative reporting.  While Microsoft has maintained that FolderShare …

With the amazing 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony just finished, Live Search has updated their first background image on the homepage for the Olympics, as reported yesterday. Now available at Live Search’s Chinese market, here’s what it looks like, …

Sunshine posted today on the improvements to My.Live.com, and we’d say they’ve done an excellent job!

We highly recommend that you set up a My.Live.com page, and add your favorite (ahem) technology blog, and other blogs to your content.  …

 My.Live.com just got an important update:

• New Header, with links to Home, Hotmail, Spaces, Onecare and MSN. The Orb gives access to even more, just like on all other Windows Live sites
   
• Usability Improvements
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