While Microsoft announced back in September that they have partnered with WordPress.com to migrate all Windows Live Spaces over, those users in mainland China missed out – as WordPress is inaccessible in mainland China due to government censorship. In fact, …
MSN China partners with Sina.com, resolves Spaces migration issue in China
Windows Live Messenger coming to a TV near you
So you think that having Messenger on your PCs and Mobiles is not enough for you? Back in January this year, we reported that Microsoft is negotiating with TV manufacturers about delivering Windows Live services to internet-enabled TVs. Well here’s …
Docs.com now supports Facebook Groups
Previously, when you want to share your documents on Docs.com, you can only share them with individual friends, and if you wanted to share with a group, you had to select the group members one-by-one. Facebook recently updated their …
Active links in Messenger 2009 temporarily turned off due to malicious worm
Microsoft made a post on the Inside Windows Live blog today alerting users that there is a malicious worm currently trying to spread itself through IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Wave 3). Here’s an excerpt from the post:…
Hotmail, Yahoo continue to dominate Gmail (we knew that)
Some new numbers published yesterday by Compete.com may be surprising to some: although popular sentiment is that “everyone uses Gmail”, the numbers don’t bear that out. Here’s a pie chart of US internet traffic to web-based email clients for September …
The future of Silverlight – revealed?
“Just like an extra day of PDC, dedicated to Silverlight” is how Microsoft is billing a newly announced Silverlight Firestarter event complete with keynote by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie entitled “The Future of Silverlight Starts Now”;
In case …
KIN Lives! Coming back to Verizon, says Engadget
A report tonight from Engadget is apparently confirming the re-emergence of the ill-fated Kin One and Kin Two phones on Verizon, with an altered data plan, but still with Zune Pass functionality:
……we’re hearing that the revised phones will be
Windows Phone 7 supports USB tethering (Updated)
Well, back when Windows Phone 7 was months away from release, Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, confirmed with Paul Thurrott that data tethering will be available but it’ll be up to carriers to decide whether …
Jackson Fish Market jumps in the WP7 app fray
Windows Phone 7 has only been on sale in the US for a day, and in Europe etc. for a month, but more and more app developers are starting to come on board. The latest is Jackson Fish Market, …
Windows Live Messenger: #2 Facebook app
ReadWriteWeb noticed what they termed quite a surprise today, that Windows Live Messenger is the second most used app in Facebook (after Farmville, of course) with some 9 million daily active users:
And as RWW points out, only about …
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