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Windows Phone: Our first impressions (what are yours?)

WP7logo We’ve been poring over all the blog posts and tweets (when Twitter manages to stay up) about Windows Phone 7 Series, and aside from being pretty impressed, we’ve come away with a few first impressions.  Of course we’re only going …

Mobile World Congress set to begin: Global Apps Platform coming?

mwc We’re getting ready to follow all the fun in Barcelona (early) tomorrow morning (Seattle time, that is), setting up some Twitter and RSS feeds, and we already came across one little tidbit.  On the Mobile Business News RSS feed, we …

Ready… Set…Windows Phone (7 Series)

Microsoft is finally ready to start talking about “the next generation of Windows Phones” at Mobile World Congress on Monday, and there’s been a little flurry of activity this weekend with some new new info and some new rumors about …

Bing Maps at TED – Blaise’s session now available

Blaise Aguera y Arcas showed off some very cool new stuff from Bing Maps at TED a couple of days ago, and the video has just been posted, so here it is:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/766

Just a note that the Streetside Photos

MSN preview updates My Apps

Looks like the msn.com/preview has been updated, or at least the “my apps” portion of the home page.  Before, there were three tabs, for Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live, and a separate Hotmail section, but now two new apps have …

More from TED: Dr. Gary Flake presents Pivot, now available for download

More news from the TED conference, this time it’s Dr. Gary Flake presenting Pivot, a Live Labs project that just “wouldn’t have been possible five years ago”:

Pivot is an experimental technology that allows people to visualize data

Bing, TED, and “spatial search”: more cool new stuff from Bing Maps

We should have known something was up since Stefan Weitz and Betsy Aoki have been hanging out and tweeting from TED, and sure enough today Bing Maps Architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas got up and showed off the latest in …

Tidbits from Windows Live blogs: new emoticons, Msgr iPhone app coming?

Always fun to catch some little tidbits in official Windows Live blogs, and we noticed two recent ones, thanks to a tip from Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net.

First, did we just get a glimpse of an Emoticon makeover?  In yesterday’s …

Windows Mobile 7 at MWC: follow along at home!

We’ll be following whatever Windows Mobile/Phone news comes out of the Mobile World Congress next week, but we know some of you may want to get the latest news right from Steve Ballmer himself.  Luckily, the Windows Phone Press Conference …

One more thing from Bing: Winter Games Map app

Not to be outdone by the other Winter Games features, Bing Maps has introduced a Bing Maps Winter Games app, which shows you venues, news and blogs, Tweets, and even medal counts from the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. …