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Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out

Back in November at PDC, Ray Ozzie announced onstage that Microsoft would share more about the latest from Windows Live “in the Mix timeframe”.  Since then, we’ve been getting some peephole views of what’s to come, but when are we …

Gary Flake’s TED talk on Pivot now available

A few weeks ago Microsoft made quite a splash at TED, with talks by Blaise Aguera y Arcas on some amazing stuff to come for Bing Maps, Bill Gates on energy, and Dr. Gary Flake from Live Labs …

Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing: We are all in!

If you missed the webcast yesterday, or just want to watch it again: they are available here. In his speech Steve Ballmer outlined the following 5 dimensions:

• The cloud creates opportunities and responsibilities
• The cloud  learns …

Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing, Live today at 10 AM PST

Today, March 4, at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST you can watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discuss what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology. Sounds interesting! …

Microsoft OneAlbum: Fusing Facial Recognition and Social Networks – The Future of Windows Live Photos?

Microsoft Research recently revealed one of their projects at TechFest 2010 which caught our attention – OneAlbum. TechFest is Microsoft’s annual showcase of emerging technologies from Microsoft Research and is a channel for these new incubation technologies to make …

Zune HD Facebook app reappears

It took a little while, but the Facebook app for Zune HD is now working and available for installation via the Zune software interface.  The app was actually released on Monday (after apparent testing by Softies and MVPs, judging by …

Creative new names for the Windows Live Wave 4 themes, mobile experience to get themes support

Last week we showed you some of the newest themes coming in the next version of Windows Live. Unfortunately at that stage we were only able to get hold of the temporary placeholder names for each of the new themes. …

Microsoft/Bing translator now supports 30 languages

image Seven new languages have been added to the translation service:

  • ROM – Romanian
  • NOR – Norwegian
  • HUN – Hungarian
  • SKY – Slovak
  • SLO – Slovenian
  • LTH – Lithuanian
  • TRK – Turkish

This brings the total of supported languages to 30!…

Microsoft Translator – new mobile translator

Picturepan2 was digging around on MicrosoftTranslator.com and noticed a new URL, for www.microsofttranslator.com/m/, which takes a word or phrase and translates it on a mobile device.  We haven’t seen this before, although the Indic Language Input Tool beta has …

First look at the new Windows Live Wave 4 header themes

Following our last post on the new Windows Live Wave 4 header, showing you some of its new functionalities and the organisation of services, this time we will show you several of the new themes that will come with …