2010

Windows Phone and Bing Maps

Last week at the Mobile World Congres in Barcelona, Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 7 series. If you’ve watched the keynote (also available on demand) you saw that Windows 7 phones have a Bing button …

Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4 to support Geo-tagging

It’s been a crazy weekend with Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots keeps coming. Kip gave us a glimpse in his previous post on Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4, and this post will go a bit further as to what …

New Live Writer Wave 4 Screenshots Emerge

Update: Our friend PicturePan2 has posted a couple of higher resolution screenshots over at LiveSino.net, go take a look.

You might remember back in December when Neowin posted pictures of the ribbon that will be appearing in Live Writer …

Weekend glimpses of Wave 4, when will it be released? (take our poll!)

8713_WindowsLiveMessengerWave4M3_5F00_12AC4FD2 In case you missed it over the weekend, our LiveSide colleagues have been busy at work tracking down all the latest Wave 4 news and rumors, very busy in fact.  We reported on some new (apparently internal promotional) screenshots of …

More Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshots – hints at Video Messages integration, geo-tagging in Photos, and more!

Only one day later, another set of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshots has been leaked to the web, this time by Chinese website cnBeta.com. Aggregating all the screenshots that we’ve seen in the past few days, we’re guessing …

New Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshot leaked

A new Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshot seems to have surfaced on the web via a person named Zukona (thanks to MessengerAdictos.com), who claims that the screenshot is from Messenger Wave 4 Milestone 3. While we can’t be …

Messenger Plus! sets up office in Montreal

Back in December Patchou, creator of Messenger Plus! (Live), wrote a lengthy article about the history of Messenger Plus!. In that article he announced that he would take a step back (there’s only so much one man can …

MSFT-YHOO Deal is on: EU grants approval, implementation to begin

The European Union granted approval today for the Microsoft deal to purchase Yahoo!’s search business, and in a press release, Yahoo! announced that “implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the coming days”.  From the press release:…

Design Architect (at Yahoo!) explains Windows Phone animations

Luke Wroblewski, Chief Design Architect at Yahoo!, has put together a nice little collection of Windows Phone 7 Series “teases and transitions”, and dives a bit deeper into them on his personal blog:

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On his blog post, …

Facebook opens Chat to XMPP: Will Messenger join in?

facebookchat We’ve been a bit obsessed busy with Windows Phone news this week, but we wanted to circle back and catch up on a news item from last week, where Facebook opened up Facebook Chat to 3rd party clients using the