Microsoft Research recently revealed one of their projects at TechFest 2010 which caught our attention – OneAlbum. TechFest is Microsoft’s annual showcase of emerging technologies from Microsoft Research and is a channel for these new incubation technologies to make …

Farmville is big on Facebook, and it looks like Bing made hay with that info, running an ad on the ultra popular Zynga game, and adding some 400,000 new Facebook fans on Tuesday, according to Inside Facebook.  The …

It took a little while, but the Facebook app for Zune HD is now working and available for installation via the Zune software interface.  The app was actually released on Monday (after apparent testing by Softies and MVPs, judging by …

Last week we showed you some of the newest themes coming in the next version of Windows Live. Unfortunately at that stage we were only able to get hold of the temporary placeholder names for each of the new themes. …

We’ve only got 2 weeks to go before Mix, when we’ll be hearing a LOT more about Windows Phone 7 Series and what it means for the mobile marketplace (and the Zune Marketplace).  Today, however, to go along with a …

Autosuggest on Bing now supports query history. That means that if you are performing a search, autosuggest will show you previous search queries in the same color your browser uses to display visited links (purple). It even does so …

Seven new languages have been added to the translation service:

• ROM – Romanian
• NOR – Norwegian
• HUN – Hungarian
• SKY – Slovak
• SLO – Slovenian
• LTH – Lithuanian
• TRK – Turkish

This brings the total of supported languages to 30!…

Picturepan2 was digging around on MicrosoftTranslator.com and noticed a new URL, for www.microsofttranslator.com/m/, which takes a word or phrase and translates it on a mobile device.  We haven’t seen this before, although the Indic Language Input Tool beta has …