Charlie Kindel, the “Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience” (now there’s a mouthful!), announced a new blog right after Windows Phone 7 was revealed at MWC, and his first in-depth post admits that …

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 …

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:…

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, …

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 …

While Windows Mobile 6.x apps, available in the Windows Mobile Marketplace, aren’t anywhere near as prolific as iPhone apps (by a long shot), there are still unanswered questions about whether or not these apps will work on the new phones.  …

Just about everything on the Live.com domain is down, for us and for our readers around the world.  A ping to live.com times out:

EDIT: Well you learn something new every day: Microsoft does not respond to pings, according to …

Just a follow-up on this morning’s Live ID sign in issues, the problem lasted for about an hour, as explained by Arthur de Haan on the Inside Windows Live blog:

As some of you may have noticed (we heard

Today at MWC in Barcelona, Microsoft took the wraps off Windows Phone 7 Series, its new look software platform for Windows Phones, to be delivered by “Holiday Season 2010”.  First, a note that Microsoft pulled off a surprisingly clean announcement, …

Just getting ready to watch the Windows Phone Press conference (http://livesi.de/b1jp4j), but there are already some bits of news coming out of Barcelona.

First, it looks like someone peeked behind the curtains and found some images of the …