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Windows Live Hotmail – Manage All Your Email Accounts From Hotmail

Now you can add email accounts to your Windows Live Hotmail account, so you can read all your mail at one place.HotmailAddEmail  

To do so, click the “Add an email account” link in the left pane. On the next …

Windows Mobile #2 Smartphone OS in US: ComScore

You might not tell it from listening to all the buzz about the iPhone, but according to numbers from a February 2009 comScore survey of US smartphone users over the age of 13, Windows Mobile is the #2 OS in …

Tips for adding Facebook Web Activity on your Windows Live Profile

FB Windows Live Profile was just recently updated with the ability to add 20 new Web Activities, and one of which includes Facebook. Like many people (including readers on LiveSide and Windows Live Wire’s team blog), I have had problems …

A note on some LiveSide housekeeping

We’ve been doing a little spring cleaning here at LiveSide, and just wanted to note a couple of things:

RSS

Our RSS feed, from Feedburner, is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/liveside.  Feedburner (owned by Google) has changed their address a couple of times …

Sheila the Laptop Hunter: Only 2gb ram for $2k? – meh

Our friend Imran Hussain has spotted the latest Laptop Hunter ad, this time featuring Sheila the videographer:

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Sheila ends up with an HP HDX 16t, after passing on a $2000 Mac with a classic shrug.  …

Microsoft’s new free anti-malware solution gets closer: a new name for Morro?

El Morro, in San Juan, Puerto Rico Last year Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows Live OneCare, and turn instead to develop a new, free security product, code named Morro.  We’ve heard that Morro has already been in limited alpha testing, that it’s …

Live Search turns off search crawler, starts SEM blog series

bot Search Engine Roundtable has been following a thread at WebMaster World concerning some disturbing behavior from MSNbot, the crawler Live Search uses to find and index information on the web.  As of last night (April 28), the offending “feature” …

Windows Live Video Messages Has Now Been Updated To Wave 3

VideoMessagesWave3Windows Live Video Messages has now been updated to Wave3, as promised nearly 2 weeks ago. As you can see it now has the Wave 3 header, so you can navigate easier between all the Windows Live services.
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Virtual Earth Imagery Release, April 2009

This month’s Virtual Earth imagery release is 9+ TB of data, all ortho again, covering over 1 million square kilometers of Earth. There have been new releases and/or updates for the following countries:

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil,

Tellme coming soon to Windows Mobile 6.5

tellmelogo Microsoft bought Tellme back in March of 2007, and released an app for Blackberry last year, so we’ve been expecting to hear the news that came out today, that Tellme will be available for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones this …