One of the most intriguing announcements coming out of the Xbox press event here at E3 yesterday involves SmartGlass, Microsoft’s upcoming answer to a second screen technology for the living room, rivaling Apple’s Airplay and the Nintendo Wii U console.…

I’m here in line to get in to the “exclusive” Xbox press event at the 17000 seat Galen Center on USC’s campus, where we’ll all soon hear about Microsoft’s plans for Xbox, and for their very lives as they plot …

The Windows 8 Release Preview, with improved Metro style apps, a modified (and soon to be gone) Aero interface in the desktop, and lots of bug fixes and revisions became available yesterday.  While we’re still not convinced that Windows 8 …

After a bit of a snafu yesterday where Microsoft jumped the gun by publishing a blog post early announcing the availability of Windows 8 Release Preview for today (May 31) and then pulling it, the download links (as long as …

A blog post on the newly renamed “Inside SkyDrive, Hotmail, and Messenger” blog brings us news that after releasing some minor bug fixing updates to SkyDrive’s Windows Phone and iOS apps, Microsoft is rolling out updates to the desktop apps …

Long anticipated, the Photosynth for Windows Phone app has finally made it to the Windows Phone Marketplace, and is available for download now.  The app, which has been available on iOS for more than a year, has been rumored …

This morning Amazon.com and Microsoft announced the launch of a new app for Xbox, Amazon Instant Video.  The new app brings new movie releases, current TV episodes, and Prime Instant Video to Xbox Live Gold members, with the Prime …

A couple of Bing related news items today, both about other companies extending and improving upon Bing services, with more to come.

First, Nokia and Bing Maps announced the furthering of their partnership on Maps, this time with live …

One of our readers (thanks Quikboy!) pointed out to us yesterday that a one-time prominent beta offering on Bing, Visual Search, is no longer available.  Visual Search was first announced at the TechCrunch 50 conference in September of 2009, …

Last month we wrote about some changes to the Bing Search API, used by developers to bring Bing search functionality into their applications.  The set of APIs, which originally were free to use, are moving to the Azure Marketplace …