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CodeCast Episode 41: Ken Levy talks with James Senior

codemag Ken Levy, who left Microsoft just a bit over a year ago after working on the Windows Live Platform team, and “kick starting” Dev.Live.com, has been doing (among lots of other things) a podcast for Code Magazine online.  In his …

50 Bing Tricks for Students and Librarians (and you)

onlinecolleges.net OnlineColleges.net, a website ranking and reviewing online colleges, has put together a list of 50 tips for students and librarians using Bing.  Broken down into categories such as “Finding Information”, “Research and Collaboration”, and “Images and Video”, the site …

Live Framework CTP to shut down September 8th

liveframework Back in January, the Live Services Platform, along with Live Mesh, moved under the umbrella of a unified Windows Live organization, as part of Windows and Windows Live Engineering.  David Treadwell, the Corporate Vice President for the Live Services Platform …

Now that’s a serious webcam: the LifeCam Cinema – 720p HD widescreen video

Yesterday Microsoft released Windows Live Movie Maker with HD support, and today they’re announcing a new webcam that may just be the perfect complement. The LifeCam Cinema, which will be available for pre-order from Amazon.com on August 24th, and available …

Playing with Bing APIs: Long Zheng’s latest project (cool and fun!)

Our good friend Long Zheng is at it again, after collecting the Bing home pages and taking on Microsoft over changes in the UAC in Windows 7.  This time he’s taken the Bing APIs, worked some JSON and …

Microsoft Security Essentials upgrade available

(UPDATE)  Apparently sometime late last night the new builds (and indeed all downloads, and the download link in the sidebar) have been removed from Connect.  The plot thickens.

In somewhat stealth mode, Microsoft Security Essentials, or MSE, posted …

Windows Live Movie Maker – get it now

Microsoft has taken the wraps of Windows Live Movie Maker, “the the one-minute way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies that are easy to share — for free”.  You can download Windows Live Essentials now and get the …

LiveSino gets a sneak peak at new Windows Live Movie Maker

Our buddy PicturePan2 has been busy (again), and he’s found out some new information about the upcoming release of Windows Live Movie Maker.  We can’t say much beyond what he’s said at this point, but here are some highlights …

Two months in, Bing continues upward trend

This month’s flurry of Bing stories are piling up, with today’s Comscore numbers (released to analysts today) showing Bing with a slight improvement over last month, from 8.5 to 8.9 percent US search market share.  What is perhaps …

More Bing on iPhones, and more clicks for Bing

bingLogo_reverse_lg At the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose CA yesterday, Bing senior program manager Alessandro Catorcini revealed that Microsoft is testing an Objective C wrapper that will allow iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications.…