The following appeared on the public newsgroup:

On Monday, January 19th, Windows Live Sync will be unavailable from 11 AM
PST until 4 PM PST while we perform some upgrades. We apologize for the
inconvenience and promise to have

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After Finland got it’s Live Search Maps, we now also have Live Search Maps in The Netherlands (my Location).

This release includes 3D, Collections, Directions (drive and walk) and 43 cities (Amsterdam isn’t amongst those strangely enough) in Birds-Eye …

The following maintenance notice appeared on the Live Mesh Forums:

To all our valued customers: The Live Mesh team will be performing some scheduled maintenance on the following days this week and next: January 14^th, 15^th

The Live Mesh Team is out of their holiday blackout period for releases and announces the long awaited Windows Client update will be available later today.

Fixes

• Conflict-handling improved for duplicate files and folders

• Live Mesh no longer disables Aero

Tomorrow the Windows Live Calendar service will be down for a few hours:

Windows Live Calendar Planned Downtime on Tuesday, January 13

Our team is about to release more cool features to the Windows Live Calendar service. In preparation for

Finland now also has Live Maps (Virtual Earth), including 3D and Bird’s Eye images.

More details, and a lesson in Finnish, can be found over at Chris Pendleton’s.…

No matter if you are already living in Seattle, plan on moving there or if you are just visiting, there’s a wealth of information to be found on Seattle Gov’s “My Neighborhood” mapping application.

Making use of …

How would you like it if your future boss (or a recruiter) would contact you on Messenger? It can happen if you are in Latin America and submitted your resume to www.Bumeran.com. Subscribers there can now associate their Bumeran …

WorldWide Telescope has just been updated to version 2.2.41.1 named Solstice Borealis. WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated …