February, 2011

Tuning in to Mobile World Congress: our guide

If you remember, last year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona featured the unveiling of Windows Phone 7.  What will happen this year?  We just added a TweetBlender Twitter search for the hashtags #mwc and #mwc2011 in our sidebar so you …

Nokia / Microsoft: Where’s Zune?

In their press materials for the big announcement on Friday, Nokia and Microsoft featured a number of their brands in a collage of goodness about the partnership:

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However one brand is conspicuously missing from the equation: Zune.  It doesn’t …

Messenger Connect’s application contacts feature discontinued

Dare Obasanjo posted a quick notice on the Windows Live Developers Blog announcing that the "Application Contacts" feature in Messenger Connect will be discontinued in six month’s time due to low user usage. For those who doesn’t know, the application …

Bullet Points, the sequel: Next morning thoughts on Microsoft-Nokia

  • Well one thing is for sure, the US stock market isn’t too happy with Nokia’s decision to go Windows Phone.  After hours trading late last night showed NOK off some 7 points, and the stock is currently down 14.71%, to

The Top 10 Bullet Points on Microsoft-Nokia

As it’s the middle of the night here in Seattle, we’ll leave you for the night with a quick recap of the highlights of this momentous announcement by Nokia and Microsoft that they are forming a strategic partnership which will …

Nokia outlines its plans: “MeeGo computers”, streamlining

Nokia has outlined its side of the brave new world we’re undertaking tonight, offering up some details about what’s to come for the mobile hardware giant.

First, as expected, Nokia is streamlining its executive staff and operations.  The first to …

Nokia-Microsoft: some details from “forward looking statements”

The log-in to the Nokia webcast, due at 10:00 GMT today, requires that you agree to the “forward looking statements” before you get to the video page, and these are one set of small print you won’t want to …

Nokia to form Strategic Partnership with Microsoft

The links to the Nokia webcast just went live, and the word is out, Microsoft and Nokia are creating  a strategic partnership.  According to a press release just issued by Microsoft, the proposed partnership would include these points:

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IE9 Release Candidate officially released

If you haven’t downloaded it already, the IE9 RC is now officially up for grabs, with an IE9 blog post from Dean Hachamovitch explaining what’s new in the RC.  With some very nice tabbed browsing improvements (along with a …

Channel 9 posts IE9 RC videos

Already up at Channel 9 are some videos highlighting improvements in IE9 RC.  Our early favorite? – the ability to create pinned sites with multiple tabs!  We’ve just installed the RC here, but so far so good, and we’ve noticed …