2010

Well, we’re still blogging, anyway

Kind of a sad note on the “Your mail is here, come and get it” blog, the official blog of Hotmail, as they are shutting down the blog and concentrating their efforts on Inside Windows Live.  We …

Mobile rumor mill heats up; Tom and Long to Liveblog

PPC Geeks published the latest in a slew of rumors on what to expect at Mobile World Congress (MWC), now just more than a week away.  In their post, the PPC Geeks expect to see at least the user interface, …

Bing to Enhance search on Facebook; end advertising partnership

Just announced today on the Bing blog is news that Microsoft’s Bing will deepen its relationship with Facebook on search, and “will soon provide Facebook users with a more complete search experience by providing full access to great Bing features …

Silverlight for Mobile, more, for Nokia phones?

mstalentnetwork WMPowerUser has spotted a job posting at Microsoft Careers (which is sporting a new redesign of its own, and a new name, the “Microsoft Talent Network”), offering up a job in India for an SDE, and some interesting …

Bing Maps Imagery Release, January 2010 (Part 2)

The second part of the January Bing Maps imagery release (total January release: over 1 million sq. km.) has just been released. This time containing 446,000+ square kilometers of new ortho imagery for:

  • Brisbane (Australia)
  • Brisbane International Airport Area (Australia)

Windows Azure: Billing starts February 2

The Windows Azure platform is now generally available in the following 21 countries:

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the United States.

Support …

Messenger Web Toolkit updated: version 3.7 available now

The Messenger Web Toolkit, which lets you offer Windows Live Messenger functions from within your blog, has just been updated to version 3.7, according to a blog post on The Windows Live Messenger Developer blog.

Changes include offering Offline …

Bing: “built out to be a much larger player”, will be profitable, says Yusuf Mehdi

binglogo In an interview posted today at Reuters, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President, Online Audience Business, talked about the Yahoo! search deal, profitability, MSN, AOL, and more.  Mehdi expects closing the Yahoo! search deal to be a milestone moment, saying …

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4: New screenshots emerge

Last week we told you about some of the upcoming new features and changes to Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4. Only a week later, Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net was able to get hold of some screenshots of the new Hotmail, …

Speaking Bing’s language: New Microsoft Translator session at Mix10

Looks like it’s time to pay closer attention to the sessions being added for Mix 10 in March.  In addition to some promised upcoming sessions for “the next generation of Windows Phone”, we just noticed a new session …