What to expect from the Windows Phone 7.5 VIP event?

It’s not long until Microsoft reveals to the world what’s under the hood in its upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 update, codenamed "Mango". On May 24th at 10am EDT, Microsoft will be holding a VIP Preview party in New York and …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
May 17th, 2011 at 7:45 am

Bing Maps aerial imagery theme – United States

Get breathtaking views of the United States delivered to your desktop with this free Windows 7 theme that captures the best of Bing Maps aerial photography. Once downloaded, this dynamic theme updates automatically through an RSS feed. For more …

By Sunshine in Bing
May 17th, 2011 at 4:20 am

Windows Azure toolkit v1.2. for Windows Phone 7 released

As announced last week, Microsoft released version 1.2 of the Windows Azure toolkit for Windows Phone at TechEd North America 2011.

Additions to the toolkit:

  • Support and tooling for the Access Control Service 2.0
  • Support for Windows Azure Storage
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By Sunshine in Mobile
May 17th, 2011 at 3:46 am

Bing goes Social–new Bing Bar, more, available now

Well it looks like Bing gave up on trying to squelch the news and just went ahead and officially announced tomorrow’s today’s big announcement– Bing is now quite the Social animal, thanks to an expanded partnership with Facebook via the …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 16th, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Bing to announce new Facebook social features

This morning, a press release was published to the Microsoft News Center, and Tom Warren from WinRumors.com was quick enough to grab the url.  The release (and Tom’s tweet with the url) was quickly pulled, but thanks to Bing cached …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 16th, 2011 at 11:09 am

Windows Phone news: SkyDrive, Office 365, Lync, WHS, and Nokia Services

We told you this weekend about some “unofficial” news about Windows Phone coming from WPDevPodcast, and now a post on the Windows Phone Blog has made some of of that news official.

While we should be hearing a lot …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
May 16th, 2011 at 8:45 am

A Nokia Powered Bing Maps…shocking? Not so much

kiev_c_RGBA post over at Search Engine Land today expresses shock over the notion that Nokia will power, if not outright replace, the back end infrastructure for Bing Maps. Search Engine Land contributing editor Greg Sterling had lunch with a person …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 15th, 2011 at 10:24 pm

WPDevPodcast reveals more new Mango features

Last week, (right after they interviewed Brandon Watson), the Lowdermilk boys over at WPDevPodcast posted on some new features for Windows Phone coming in Mango, including Bing Audio and Bing Visual.  Well, they’re at it again!

This time, they’ve got …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
May 15th, 2011 at 12:43 pm

Opinions: How Microsoft Made A Cloud Believer Out of Me

by Travis Pope, Zune MVP

For three years I’ve listened to tech luminary Paul Thurrott on his Windows Weekly Podcast tell us about the future of computing and cloud integration. I laughed at his repeated attempts to convince the wider …

By Travis Pope in Opinion
May 15th, 2011 at 10:50 am

Bing “launches” Like–that is, if you haven’t had it for months

Yesterday Ad Age posted that Bing, next Tuesday, will be launching the inclusion of Like buttons on search results.  Ad Age says:

The updated service, which launches Tuesday, will incorporate data from the largest social network, which has become a

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By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 15th, 2011 at 10:13 am
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