October, 2009

Standalone Web Messenger coming to Windows Live?

Thanks to a tip we learn today that Windows Live users in Singapore now have their own standalone version of Windows Live Web Messenger.  Just by way of a history lesson, MSN Messenger had a standalone web messenger, and …

Yes Microsoft is to blame for Sidekick (they own it): was it an open source software failure?

The story had been brewing for a week or more: TMobile Sidekick users started reporting that their information stored online: email, contacts, calendar, etc., were inaccessible starting around a week ago Friday.  TMobile acknowledged the problem that Sunday, but it …

MSN, Twitter, etc. get to tag along with new Windows Phone

You just can’t make this stuff up.  It’s like Microsoft is living in some parallel advertising universe where the object is to generate as much jaw dropping disbelief to their ads as possible.  If the Windows 7 launch party videos weren’t enough, …

Photosynth: Overhead View And More

The Photosynth team has released a major new feature called Overhead View. Overhead View allows you to look at the synth from above in 3D points. It also offers a new way of navigation, which is particularly handy for larger …

Windows Phones, My Phone And A Sneak Preview Of Bing For Mobile

Yesterday we told you about Windows Mobile Marketplace going live. Today we can tell you more about which Windows Phones will use Windows Mobile 6.5 and some more about My Phone.

First the phones. Microsoft and its partners now …

Windows Live for Windows Mobile updated

wlwm With today’s announcements around the release of Windows Phone (Windows Mobile 6.5) comes not only an updated MyPhone, but upgrades to both the mobile client and web experience for Windows Live for Windows Mobile.  Not much from Windows Live …

Someone went phishing: Thousands of Hotmail accounts compromised

Tom Warren at Neowin.net is reporting on the temporary release of thousands of Hotmail addresses and passwords, apparently gathered in some kind of a phishing scam.  Microsoft is “actively investigating”, according to Neowin.  While this is never good news, …

Windows Mobile Marketplace is live (for WM 6.5): new Windows Live for Windows Mobile

Our friend Picturepan2 is hard at work (even on his birthday!), and has screenshots of Windows Mobile Marketplace in action:

wmmarketplace

The Marketplace is only available now for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones (one of which is already on sale), due to …

LiveSide and link spam

dirty_laundry Sorry to have to air our dirty laundry again, but this weekend has been an interesting one.  A month or two ago we came under an attack of bot generated new users, due to our automatic acceptance of any new …

Our latest poll: Do you Bing?

(Well we spent an eventful morning deleting hundreds of new user accounts that were created solely to fill their bios with spam links.  We’ve set our new user creation to Admin Approval for now, which is less than optimal, we …