New Bing Maps Streetside view (officially) announced

In a blog post today, our old friend Chris Pendleton officially announces a new version of Bing Maps Streetside, which now uses the Microsoft Research Street Slide technology.  We told you about the apparent switch back on May 7th

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 31st, 2011 at 10:14 am

First Windows Phone “Mango” hardware revealed – Acer W4

Microsoft unveiled last week at the Windows Phone VIP press conference that three new hardware manufacturers – Acer, Fujitsu, and ZTE, will be joining in to produce Windows Phones in the coming year. Today, the first new hardware device to …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
May 31st, 2011 at 6:39 am

A new homepage for MSN China portal

Last week, MSN China launched a new homepage for its news and content portal website. Along with a new logo, the new, cleaner look has the same design as current MSN.com in the US and NineMSN beta in the Australia

By Picturepan2 in News
May 30th, 2011 at 10:16 pm

The LiveSide Event Planner: D9, E3, SMX Advanced, more

Even though this is a holiday weekend in the US (Monday is Memorial Day), the next few weeks promise lots of upcoming news, some of it potentially monumental.  (all times listed are Pacific Daylight time, GMT –8)

sinofsky-wsjThe Wall Street …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
May 29th, 2011 at 1:04 pm

Windows Live on Windows Phone “Mango”: The Past, Present, and Future

We’ve all heard about Microsoft’s "3-screens-and-the-cloud" strategy before, delivering cloud services to the "three-screens" – PCs, TV (via the Xbox 360), and of course your mobile phones. Windows Live really sits right in the centre of this strategy, …

By damaster in Featured Mobile Opinion
May 28th, 2011 at 3:40 am

My Phone might be coming back with the new web-based Windows Phone Marketplace?

Together with the recent wave of Windows Phone "Mango" news, Microsoft announced that the a Web-based version of Windows Phone Marketplace for apps and games will be coming as part of “Mango”, complementing the one in the Zune software and …

By damaster in Mobile
May 26th, 2011 at 5:07 am

All these Mango features, wow: What’s next, a gold plated Windows Phone?

We have to say we’re a bit overwhelmed by the size and scope of the Mango release announcements from yesterday, everything from a new web based Windows Phone Marketplace to a redesigned SkyDrive (can’t wait to hear more from Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
May 25th, 2011 at 10:51 am

Windows Phone “Mango” supports music streaming from SkyDrive?

Earlier today we revealed that a new SkyDrive is coming which will bring Photos and Office documents together in a new HTML5-based user interface. In case you missed it, here’s a screenshot of it in action:

Windows Live SkyDrive Wave 5

With the new Windows …

By damaster in Mobile News
May 25th, 2011 at 6:00 am

Windows Phone “Mango” finally supports multiple calendars, calendar subscriptions, and to-do lists

Windows Live CalendarMicrosoft officially unveiled Windows Phone “Mango” this morning in New York City, and touted a few major features coming in the next major release of the mobile operating system. However, it was almost impossible to cover all of the over …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
May 25th, 2011 at 3:54 am

A new SkyDrive, PDF tools, Twitter for Windows Live: lots of juicy bits from Mango

OK so we’re a little upset we weren’t able to make it to New York today for the Mango announcements, but we’ve been making up for it by keeping a close eye on all the tidbits coming out today, and …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
May 24th, 2011 at 1:07 pm