Yesterday Google dropped quite a bombshell when it announced that, because of a series of attacks on Google and other companies by hackers trying to get access to Chinese human rights activists GMail accounts, it would reconsider its “approach to …

A new post on the Bing search blog highlights some nice new features in Instant Answers for health related queries, including content from partners and new hard-to-discover search results.  Here’s a Bing search on h1n1:

The new Instant …

Ever since Wave 3, people have been wondering why Windows Live Calendar never had a mobile counterpart, considering calendars are one of the most used applications on every mobile devices. Windows Live Calendar for Mobile only supported SMS-based services in …

A new version of Windows Live for Windows Phone has been released:

New Year, New Version . . .

We have  released a new version of Windows Live for Windows Phone, working in Standard or Professional phones.

Now  you

Well so far so good in our “hosting video on Azure” experiment.  We followed David Sayed’s tutorial and with only a few bumps along the way we now have a couple of videos in the cloud.  Our interview videos are …

CNN Money senior writer Jon Fortt talked to Steve Ballmer at CES about Bing, Windows Phone, and more, a quick but interesting take.  Ballmer promises a “whole new set of innovations” for Windows Phones, and comments that the mobile market …

A source at Microsoft revealed to tweakers.net (at CES) that Microsoft is negotiating with TV manufacturers about delivering Windows Live Services with internet enabled televisions (Connected TVs).

It’s unclear at this time which services this will be, probably Windows Live …

Microsoft is busy dropping hints that it is finally ready to start talking about Windows Mobile 7, the long awaited and expectation-laden new Windows Phone operating system.  In his keynote, Steve Ballmer mentioned that there would be more about Windows …

As you may have noticed, we’ve been working hard on getting LiveSide.net ready for the year to come, including moving to a new web host, working on the themes, adding Disqus comments, and hopefully generally cleaning up our act.  Last …

While we can’t say we took the time to watch this year’s “Crunchies”, the TechCrunch awards given out for the past 3 years now, we’re happy to report that Bing took away the honors for Best New Startup or Product …