If you were lucky (or if you were reading LiveSide), and got your name into Exchange ActiveSync early, you’re probably enjoying the benefits of it now.  Even if you didn’t get in on that early “wave”, some of …

Leo Laporte is apparently swearing off everything but his blog and his weekly podcast (TwiT – This week in Tech, a fun listen, btw), but we’re having fun with our various side projects, and wanted to update you …

Our friend Rich Hay at WindowsObserver.com just pointed out that Windows Live Sync for Mac is available on Microsoft Downloads, dated last week, August 13, 2010. We’re not Mac guys, but we did post a link to a Live …

Facebook Places, from all accounts, is going to be quite a big deal, and Bing Maps is right in the center of it all, running the maps on Facebook.com.  We’ve noticed a few of our friends trying out the …

We’ve been spelunking for applications on Facebook (more news coming soon), and just noticed the Messenger page on Facebook:

8,115,283 monthly active users, not bad!

How has your experience with Facebook integration been going?  We’ve noticed a couple of things …

A blog post on the adCenter Blog at Microsoft Advertising reports that the transition of organic (algorithmic, or non-paid search results) search results from the Yahoo! search engine to Bing has begun.  Once the transition is complete, according to …

What a fun day!  This morning at about 7:30 am Pacific Daylight Time, ace LiveSide contributor damaster found that the download link he had been tipped to earlier was now working, and he worked feverishly to post at the same …

(via meraTechPort, thanks Vasudev!)

So you rushed to download and install Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta Refresh, only to get to 98% installed and fail, doh.  The problem was that although the final version of WLE 2011 will support …

In what would seem to be a major coup, Bing Maps will be the map provider for the newly announced Facebook Places, on Facebook.com.  The location service for Facebook, which will allow you to check in and share your …

Explanation:  This post was written under embargo, before the links to what was apparently the Beta Refresh became available earlier today.  According to a Microsoft spokesperson, those links point to a download that “is not the right build; the …