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Community of sneaky geniuses – more Wave 3 teasers in our comments

You know what they say: “two heads are better than one”. The same is true for inquisitive users, as the comments to yesterday’s post on the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas showed.

First up was luisfelipe, who found an …

Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot: Time To Say Goodbye To The Prototype

As I already mentioned in my Windows Live Translators post, the new Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot (Tbot) has mtbot@hotmail.com as its Messenger addy. If you still have the prototype, mtbot-en_us@hotmail.com, on your list it’s time to say

Live Search coming to Blackberry, according to CNET News

Ina Fried at CNET News is reporting that Microsoft and Research in Motion are set to announce a deal to “make it easier for BlackBerry users to reach Microsoft’s Live Search”.  The announcement, reported to be coming on Thursday, will …

Stream Video And Location Together With GPS-Enabled Mobile Video

Want to show off your route along with your position on a Virtual Earth map? Take people on a tour with you without them physically there? All possible if you have a Windows Live Mobile phone with GPS. Chris Pendleton,

Windows Live Wave 3 beta urls show up

A couple of weeks ago we started noticing an interesting referrer popping up in the stats for some of our posts. Turns out Microsoft moved their Wave 3 services from the dogfood servers onto beta servers, and as a result …

Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta

One of our LiveSide readers, Pradeep, came across this Microsoft service. Thank you for notifying us Pradeep.

Microsoft® Phone Data Manager Beta is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data on your

Photosynth Update, September 8

  Photosynth just got its second update:

  • Improved upload success rate. This update should significantly reduce the number of synths failing with error code “0xA000000B”. The problem happens when a file is currupted on it’s way to storage. We’ve

Microsoft Translation goes in-house

A day late on this one, but congratulations anyway to the Microsoft Research Translation Team for making the transition from a third party translation technology to going “in-house”.  From the MSR-MT blog:

  • Translation now fully powered by the Microsoft

As expected, Microsoft unveils Windows Live Video Messages

mslv_welcome_gadget While Steve Jobs, his health, and a new slew of iPods dominated the tech news today, Microsoft tried to make a bit of a splash as well.  Zune is getting a new color and some new capabilities (including expanded sync …

More on Wave 3: Windows Live Writer to support YouTube, Events and Photo Albums

Having told you about what’s coming in Messenger, Mail, Movie Maker and Photo Gallery, it’s now time to cover the next one in the series: Windows Live Writer. Let us start off with a screenshot for you:

We’ve noticed on …