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Microsoft and Nokia team up to offer Windows Live on S60 devices

Microsoft and Nokia are set to announce a new agreement that brings Windows Live services to selected Nokia S60 devices. From today, customers in 11 countries will be able to download the new Windows Live suite, giving access to Windows Live …

Bebo partners with Windows Live

Microsoft looks to have added another company to its growing group of Windows Live partners with Reuters reporting that Bebo is to use the platform for its social networking site. Recently declared the largest social networking service in the UK, …

Microsoft running Live Search Trial Program for consumers – more search research

There is yet another twist on the web search research being done by by Microsoft, with the Live Search Trial Program lining up alongside the likes of Live Search Club, Imagine Live Search and as announced today, Tafiti.…

Microsoft launches Tafiti – Search and Silverlight experiment

Tafiti, an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight has just been launched. It’s described as follows:

Tafiti, which means “do research” in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the

LiveSide Stickers Around the World!

We’re less than 48 hours into the LiveSide stickers giveaway, and we’re already at over 100 requests for stickers.  What’s even more amazing is where the requests have come from:

LiveSide Stickers (click on the picture to check out the Live Maps

LiveSide Stickers Giveaway

OK so you guys rock.  Thanks for all the help on getting LiveSide Wave 3.x going, and for all your input.  We love feedback, we love tips, and we really appreciate all the comments and suggestions.  Keep it …

Live ID sneaks in Info Card right under our noses

We’ve been telling you about Info Card for quite a while, but in all the excitement (and a few bugs to iron out) surrounding the new Live ID associations with LiveSide Community Server log in, it took us a minute …

Windows Live Calendar dogfood running – Get ready for a beta

It was hinted at earlier in the week with the Windows Live Hotmail update, yes the Windows Live Calendar beta is fast approaching.  Its now available to some special people in a dogfood form (pre-beta) at http://dogfood.calendar.live.com/. Unfortunately if you aren’t …

LiveSide Now With Live ID Goodness

What’s going on here?! Two sign in buttons?

Don’t fret, you’re not seeing a bug, it’s the new Windows Live ID SSO addon I’ve built for Community Server.

You can now choose how to sign into Liveside.net, via the normal …

Windows Live Hotmail gets update – 5GB inboxes for free, 10GB for Plus

Yes the Hotmail team has been quiet for a while since their v1 launch, however they’ve just launched a small but feature-packed update. As well as offering free accounts the new storage size of 5GB, paying customers (Hotmail Plus …