Bing is partnering with a new 9 week old company, Gigwalk, “the first on-demand mobile workforce” to bring 3D Photosynth panoramas of retail stores and restaurants into Bing Maps.  Gigwalk uses a mobile workforce of iPhone users who download …

The guys at WPCentral have spotted a Youku (a Chinese version of YouTube) video showing Nokia’s first Windows Phone device, code named Sea Ray.  The video shows a little unboxing ceremony, (note the actual hardware buttons for home, search, and …

A post at All Things D yesterday revealed that, after Twitter and Google parted ways (at least temporarily) recently, things maybe aren’t going so well in negotiations to renew the relationship between Twitter and Bing.

Bing, like Google, signed a …

SkyDrive recently got a lot faster, with a much better experience on the web and on mobile (and are beginning to promote it with some retro styled in-house ads):

A new blog post on Inside Windows Live goes into detail …

Alert LiveSide readers spotted the “My friend’s been hacked” feature (in the comments) on Hotmail back when the new faster version was released a few weeks ago, and today the Inside Windows Live blog has some more info …

Early last week, Dropbox changed its Terms of Service and set off a bit of a tempest in a teacup.  Although since then, it’s become clear that the “uproar” didn’t bother investors too much, as the company has been recently …

Last week, we showed you some changes to Bing Maps, pointing out some new navigation header changes, and noting that at the time there was nothing on the Bing Maps blog to detail the changes.  That changed on Monday, …

At yesterday’s WPC (Worldwide Partners Conference) in Los Angeles, Steve Ballmer took the stage to talk about the state of Microsoft and Windows, touching on Skype (saying it will enhance enterprise level Lync communications, not undermine it), Bing (a new …

An interesting although unsubstantiated rumor coming from The Daily, “an iPad app of News entertainment, culture, opinion, gossip, sports, and tech, delivered every day”, that Microsoft, “sick of watching content partners like Netflix and Hulu eat its proverbial lunch”, …

LiveSide reader Quikboy noticed that Bing Maps has received a bit of a facelift recently, and the menu for choosing between Road, Aerial, and Birds Eye views has changed:

Included are new, bolder graphics for zoom and direction changes (at …