2011

Windows Live Mesh – your 2.3 million gigabyte hard drive

skydriveWindows Live Mesh reached an important milestone today: it’s now used to connect over 5 million devices.  Over 3 million users are syncing some 2.2 petabytes (1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes, 1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes), or over 2,306,867.2 gigabytes

Flickr for Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7: now available

flickrToday, Yahoo! is officially releasing its Flickr for Windows Phone 7 and Flickr for Windows 7 apps, featuring tight integration with the photo sharing application.   The Flickr blog details some of the features:

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IE9 for Mobile: coming soon to Windows Phone 7?

02-14MWC_IEMobile_webWMPowerUser received a tip today that the recently announced IE 9 for mobile update for Windows Phone may indeed be coming well earlier than the “Mango” update due in the second half of the year.

WMPU’s tipster, “Sylar”, recently also

Bing expands natural language search: query by price

Today Bing is unveiling some improvements to the way you can search using natural language queries, adding the ability to query by price.  For example, a query for “laptops under $500” will filter out any higher price laptops, eliminating …

Digital Artist creates (very cool) Windows Phone ad concept

Brandon Foy, a post-graduate intern at Full Sail University in Florida, has created a website and posted his concept video ad, titled “We Love WP7

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We don’t have much other information on the video or the artist

MVP Summit, SxSWi, Mix 2011: the LiveSide event planner

We’ve been trying to keep our Windows Live Calendar current with upcoming events, and it’s definitely filling up as we head into spring.

First up is the Microsoft MVP Summit – LiveSide started when a group of us met through …

Google Cloud Connect? Meh, says Microsoft

11550Google announced Cloud Connect this week, a free plugin for Microsoft Office that allows users to sync, edit and store Microsoft Documents in Google Apps, either by converting them to Google Docs, or leaving the files as Office Documents.  Microsoft …

A Live Mesh beta deadpool reminder

live mesh logoAn email reminder was sent out today by Windows Live to Live Mesh beta participants, reminding them that the beta will be completely shut down on March 31, and any data stored on the Live Mesh beta servers will be …

Bing brings Price Predictors to the search box

Bing already provides quick price predictions for some major US markets using its Farecast technology, but today they’re introducing an even faster way to get predictions and quick flight cost information, this time right from within the search bar:…

New Samsung Focus ad: What if?

Picture 8487What if, indeed.  What if Microsoft and its partners started showing off some of the cool and unique features of Windows Phone, instead of allowing the conversation to be dominated by talk of failed updates?  What if Microsoft spokespeople were …