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 …

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:…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

A few months ago we wanted to make it …

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 …

Channel9 posted an interesting video looking behind the scenes at the Live Mesh peer-to-peer synch. Its 30mins long but if you’ve got the time to kill its worth watching. Some of the topics covered (in order) are:

• The 5GB quota

With today being the iPhone 2.0 launch, there’s a lot of chat about the new Applications Store and Apple touting the 500 third party applications available initially. Ina Fried already questioned Microsoft about how this compares to Windows Mobile, with …