New Next Gen Windows Phone Marketplace policies

The news just never stops does it? This time we’ve got some news for Windows Phone Developers. The Windows Phone Marketplace policies have changed! They’ve been changed to attract a wider range of developers, from large software companies to …

By Sunshine in Mobile
June 8th, 2010 at 12:36 pm

Bing: on iPhone, on Safari, … and at SMX Advanced

We mentioned earlier today that Bing is now a search option on iPhone, but the early news didn’t include mention that Bing is now also an option on Safari, the default browser on the Mac (you can get the latest …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
June 8th, 2010 at 7:43 am

New version of ICE available

Earlier today we told you that Photosynth panoramas now show up in the Photosynth Map App on Bing Maps if you geotag them. The program with which you make these panoramas, ICE, just got an update today.

Most of …

By Sunshine in News
June 7th, 2010 at 11:55 pm

Bing Maps updates: Bing Map App SDK and more

The Bing Map App SDK

Attention developers! Want to develop Bing Map Apps? You can starting today, with the Bing Map App SDK!

To access the Bing Map App SDK, login to Microsoft Connect at http://connect.microsoft.com/bingmapapps. Download the …

By Sunshine in Bing
June 7th, 2010 at 5:23 pm

LiveSide gets a new logo (just in time for Wave 4!)

Seems like everyone and his sister had big announcements today, and right here in the middle of it all we decided to go ahead and unveil our new logo:

LiveSideWhBG

We really want to thank all of you for taking the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 7th, 2010 at 6:29 am

It’s official, Office Web Apps are Live!

We just told you about the Wave 4 web services going live, and now sure enough Jason Moore has posted on Inside Windows Live “officially” announcing the availability of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive in the US, UK, Canada, and …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 7th, 2010 at 5:53 am

Wave 4 Web services go live!

At least some of the new Wave 4 web services are now live, both here in the US and in Australia, at least:

onelinedocs

profileWave4

Apparently Hotmail hasn’t made the switch yet, but you should be able to get to Wave 4 …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 7th, 2010 at 2:55 am

News from all over: Bing on iPhone, Pivot, more

Lots of conferences underway at the moment, with tidbits of news coming from all over the map.  Here’s a quick round-up:

WWDC
The Steve Jobs Show opened things up this morning in San Francisco, complete with cool news about the …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing News
June 7th, 2010 at 12:40 am

Help us choose a new LiveSide logo: part deux

Dana and Tony over at IDesignYourLogo.com have a good little thing going: they’re designing a logo a day for a year, with each day costing $2 more than the day before.  We thought it sounded like fun, and signed up.  …

By Kip Kniskern in News
June 5th, 2010 at 3:20 pm

Wave 4: Windows Live Service Status

So ever since the MSN Messenger days, Microsoft had always provided a page to allow users to check the current service status for the .NET Messenger Service, despite this page never really updating even during the rare widespread outages we …

By damaster in News
June 5th, 2010 at 3:15 pm