More Nokia X devices on the way this year, says Nokia VP

nokia_x_front_yellow_home1We may be confused as to the logic behind Nokia’s push into Android, especially just as the phones business is about to be acquired by Microsoft, but according to Nokia Vice President for Mobile Phone Marketing Jussi Nevanlinna, it all …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 26th, 2014 at 9:41 am

Does the Nokia X make any sense to you?

Nokia-X-Dual-SIM1This week, Nokia officially announced the “X” series of entry level smartphones powered by an open source version of Android.  The three phones: the Nokia X, the X+, and coming later this year, the Nokia XL, not only introduce “popular …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 25th, 2014 at 11:11 am

Bing Maps Preview adds 15 3D cities

In December, Bing Maps introduced a new version of its on-again, off-again 3D mapping product, the “Bing Maps Preview”, this time completely rebuilt from its Silverlight predecessor to now use WebGL, a web standards graphics engine introduced in …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 22nd, 2014 at 1:20 pm

Its Official, part two: Office Web Apps is now Office Online

Yesterday marked the much anticipated rebrand of SkyDrive to OneDrive, but in a companion move, Microsoft also announced that Office Web Apps is now “Office Online”. Of course, if you’ve been reading LiveSide, you already knew the change was …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 20th, 2014 at 11:02 am

Its official: SkyDrive is now OneDrive

onedrive_white Microsoft just announced that SkyDrive is now officially OneDrive, and available in over 100 languages at www.onedrive.com or by logging in to your former SkyDrive account.  Last year, after fighting in court over European trademark rights to the SkyDrive …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 19th, 2014 at 12:11 am

Windows Phone 8.1 icons provide clues to Cortana, dual sims, more

cortana star Ever since the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, provided early to developers, leaked last week, we’ve been learning more and more about what’s upcoming for Windows Phone’s next OS update.  So far, the SDK has revealed a long list of new …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 18th, 2014 at 9:15 am

Bing Health and Fitness Beta comes to Windows Phone 8

When Windows 8.1 was delivered last October, Microsoft released two brand new Bing Apps, Bing Health & Fitness and Bing Food & Drink, to extend already existing Bing Apps family . At the same time, Microsoft Bing AppEx team …

By Picturepan2 in Mobile
February 16th, 2014 at 9:35 pm

The Windows Phone 8.1 features you haven’t seen in the leaked SDK

If you had been following the news lately, a preview version of Windows Phone 8.1 SDK were distributed to selected beta testers earlier this week, which were then inevitably leaked to the internet. The SDK included not only development tools, …

By damaster in Mobile
February 15th, 2014 at 8:02 am

Skype updated to fix multiple device sync

Ever since Microsoft announced the deal to acquire Skype back in May of 2011 (closing the deal in October of that year), updates to Skype have fallen into the Microsoft cadence: that is – slow. While there has been undoubtedly …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 13th, 2014 at 9:56 am

SkyDrive Updated for Windows 8.1: brings back sync icon

Microsoft released a number of updates for Windows 8.1 RT, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2, and among the updates was something a bit unexpected: a SkyDrive update that brings back the sync icon in the taskbar and updates …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 11th, 2014 at 5:33 pm
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