Neowin.net reported today that according to tips from a “key WP7 employee”, the Windows Phone platform may be getting video chat capabilities much like Apple’s FaceTime. According to Neowin, the application is expected to be bundled into Microsoft’s Live services …
Project Emporia available for Windows Phone 7
We first told you about Fuse Labs Project Emporia back in November and now Project Emporia is already available for Windows Phone 7 via the marketplace. 
This sounds like a must-have app to me, well if you want to …
Bing: FanSnap, TV Listings and Bing in your car?
FanSnap – If you’re searching for sports tickets in the US, things just got easier. The Bing team just incorporated FanSnap’s venue maps and comprehensive event catalogue into the Bing experience. This means that you can now compare tickets from …
Hotmail outage explained, preventative steps taken (we suggest some more of our own)
Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, to their credit, the Windows Live team through Mike Schackwitz explained what happened in the Hotmail outage that occurred over the New Year’s Day weekend. Basically, after running some automated stress …
The CES Keynote yawn: is it Ballmer or is it Microsoft?
The early returns are filtering in, and our personal first impressions, along with others from around the web, were, shall we say, underwhelming. Nick Eaton at the Seattle PI, for one, was left wanting:
…What we don’t know is
Avatar Kinect announced for Xbox 360
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer announced during his CES 2011 keynote a new experience called Avatar Kinect for the Xbox 360. Besides recognising body gestures using the Kinect technology, with Avatar Kinect your Xbox 360 can recognise facial expressions as well – …
CES 2011: Series of Windows Phone 7 updates coming in the next few months
Steve Ballmer’s CES 2011 keynote had just ended, and gave us very little to no surprises (if not slightly disappointed). One thing Steve did promise during the keynote in relation to Windows Phone 7 updates is the following:
…Microsoft will
CES 2011: Microsoft Surface 2.0 revealed, Windows 8 to run on SoC
Micorsoft just held a special press conference at 1pm PST, featuring Steven Sinofsky, President of the Windows and Windows Live division, giving us a preview of what’s to come in this evening’s keynote.
Perhaps the most interesting (and surprising) news …
CES News: Hot Apps, MS Press Conference, more
The news is heating up from CES, and just posted over at Channel 9 is a special CES edition of Laura Foy’s Hot Apps, taking a look at new Xbox Live Apps for Window Phone 7:
Google wins injunction against Microsoft in BPOS email conflict
The hosted email wars keep heating up as today Google has won a temporary injunction against the Department of the Interior, who Google accused of improperly awarding a contract to Microsoft to provide email services for its 88,000 Bureau of …
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