June, 2010

New version of ICE available

Earlier today we told you that Photosynth panoramas now show up in the Photosynth Map App on Bing Maps if you geotag them. The program with which you make these panoramas, ICE, just got an update today.

Most of …

Bing Maps updates: Bing Map App SDK and more

The Bing Map App SDK

Attention developers! Want to develop Bing Map Apps? You can starting today, with the Bing Map App SDK!

To access the Bing Map App SDK, login to Microsoft Connect at http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps. Download the …

LiveSide gets a new logo (just in time for Wave 4!)

Seems like everyone and his sister had big announcements today, and right here in the middle of it all we decided to go ahead and unveil our new logo:

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We really want to thank all of you for taking the …

It’s official, Office Web Apps are Live!

We just told you about the Wave 4 web services going live, and now sure enough Jason Moore has posted on Inside Windows Live “officially” announcing the availability of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive in the US, UK, Canada, and …

Wave 4 Web services go live!

At least some of the new Wave 4 web services are now live, both here in the US and in Australia, at least:

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Apparently Hotmail hasn’t made the switch yet, but you should be able to get to Wave 4 …

News from all over: Bing on iPhone, Pivot, more

Lots of conferences underway at the moment, with tidbits of news coming from all over the map.  Here’s a quick round-up:

WWDC
The Steve Jobs Show opened things up this morning in San Francisco, complete with cool news about the …

Help us choose a new LiveSide logo: part deux

Dana and Tony over at IDesignYourLogo.com have a good little thing going: they’re designing a logo a day for a year, with each day costing $2 more than the day before.  We thought it sounded like fun, and signed up.  …

Wave 4: Windows Live Service Status

So ever since the MSN Messenger days, Microsoft had always provided a page to allow users to check the current service status for the .NET Messenger Service, despite this page never really updating even during the rare widespread outages we …

Windows Live Mobile website updated to Wave 4

Windows Live Mobile logoSeems like the first Windows Live Online Service to be updated to Wave 4 is Windows Live Mobile. If you visit http://mobile.live.com using your PC’s web browser today, you would’ve noticed that the header had been upgraded to the new …

Explore Windows Live – and try out the new Web Messenger and Wave 4 themes!

Windows Live Contacts logoMicrosoft has put up a new Windows Live overview website at http://explore.live.com that has just gone live today. On the website you’ll find some information about the new Windows Live Wave 4, categorised into Hotmail, Messenger, Essentials, SkyDrive, Mobile, and …