2010

Bing: Portland, music and food

Bing sure loves Portland! Just released is a new Bing Map App called the Bing Food Cart Finder, which helps you find over 250 food carts in the area! You can filter food vendors by recommended picks from Portland …

Office Web Apps updated: Print from Word Web App; Excel Charts and AutoFill; more

Windows Live Essentials isn’t the only suite to be updated recently, a blog post on the Office Web Apps blog (and featured on Inside Windows Live) points out a number of new features for Office Web Apps.  Like Essentials, …

Yahoo! organic search in US, Canada now “Powered by Bing”

The Microsoft-Yahoo! search alliance continues to move forward on schedule, and today Microsoft Senior Vice President Satya Nadella announced “a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo!”, as all (organic, meaning non-paid) searches on Yahoo!, in the US and Canada, in …

Windows Live Messenger 2011 Beta Refresh – little things do matter

Windows Live MessengerWindows Live Messenger 2011 was released just over a week ago, and along with the release Microsoft turned on the long-awaited feature – Facebook chat integration. While we reported some of the major updates to the beta refresh release, …

Final release of Windows Phone Developer Tools on September 16

In our article about Windows Phone 7 Jump Start Training we already mentioned that there won’t be any localized training provided until the final release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. At that time we didn’t have a release date …

Exchange ActiveSync for Hotmail – “just a few more days” away?

If you were lucky (or if you were reading LiveSide), and got your name into Exchange ActiveSync early, you’re probably enjoying the benefits of it now.  Even if you didn’t get in on that early “wave”, some of …

Hey Leo, we *like* social media! – LiveSide housekeeping update

radiologo-12Leo Laporte is apparently swearing off everything but his blog and his weekly podcast (TwiT – This week in Tech, a fun listen, btw), but we’re having fun with our various side projects, and wanted to update you …

Windows Live Sync for Mac client available

Our friend Rich Hay at WindowsObserver.com just pointed out that Windows Live Sync for Mac is available on Microsoft Downloads, dated last week, August 13, 2010. We’re not Mac guys, but we did post a link to a Live

Checking in on Facebook Places (and the Bing Maps experience)

Facebook Places, from all accounts, is going to be quite a big deal, and Bing Maps is right in the center of it all, running the maps on Facebook.com.  We’ve noticed a few of our friends trying out the …

King of Bing Maps App Contest Winners

The winners of the King Of Bing Maps App Competition, just got announced on the site:

2010 King of Bing Maps
1. Taxi Fare Calculator by Ricky Brundritt – see it in action
2. GeoSales Tax by Avalara – see it in action