What do blurry pics reveal about “Pink”?

Gizmodo got their hands on some blurry pics of a rumored Microsoft “Pink” phone, the “Pure”, and some bits of information about Microsoft’s enigmatic new phones.

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According to Gizmodo, who claim to have their hands on a copy of …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
March 5th, 2010 at 10:28 am

Windows Phone sessions at Mix unveiled

There are 12 developer sessions on Windows Phone 7 Series scheduled at Mix 10, but up until now all we had were placeholders.  Those sessions have now been revealed, however – nothing earth shattering but here’s the list (including 2 …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
March 5th, 2010 at 5:58 am

Steve Ballmer on Cloud Computing, Live today at 10 AM PST

Today, March 4, at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST you can watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discuss what’s ahead for computing, with a focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology. Sounds interesting! …

By Sunshine in News
March 4th, 2010 at 1:15 pm

Microsoft OneAlbum: Fusing Facial Recognition and Social Networks – The Future of Windows Live Photos?

Microsoft Research recently revealed one of their projects at TechFest 2010 which caught our attention – OneAlbum. TechFest is Microsoft’s annual showcase of emerging technologies from Microsoft Research and is a channel for these new incubation technologies to make …

By damaster in News
March 4th, 2010 at 11:55 am

Bing runs ad on Farmville, adds 400k Facebook friends

Farmville is big on Facebook, and it looks like Bing made hay with that info, running an ad on the ultra popular Zynga game, and adding some 400,000 new Facebook fans on Tuesday, according to Inside Facebook.  The …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:47 am

Zune HD Facebook app reappears

It took a little while, but the Facebook app for Zune HD is now working and available for installation via the Zune software interface.  The app was actually released on Monday (after apparent testing by Softies and MVPs, judging by …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:16 am

Creative new names for the Windows Live Wave 4 themes, mobile experience to get themes support

Last week we showed you some of the newest themes coming in the next version of Windows Live. Unfortunately at that stage we were only able to get hold of the temporary placeholder names for each of the new themes. …

By damaster in News
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:19 pm

Zune (phone) news

We’ve only got 2 weeks to go before Mix, when we’ll be hearing a LOT more about Windows Phone 7 Series and what it means for the mobile marketplace (and the Zune Marketplace).  Today, however, to go along with a …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:00 am

Autosuggest includes search history

Autosuggest on Bing now supports query history. That means that if you are performing a search, autosuggest will show you previous search queries in the same color your browser uses to display visited links (purple). It even does so …

By Sunshine in Bing
March 1st, 2010 at 10:04 pm

Microsoft/Bing translator now supports 30 languages

image Seven new languages have been added to the translation service:

  • ROM – Romanian
  • NOR – Norwegian
  • HUN – Hungarian
  • SKY – Slovak
  • SLO – Slovenian
  • LTH – Lithuanian
  • TRK – Turkish

This brings the total of supported languages to 30!…

By Sunshine in News
March 1st, 2010 at 2:26 pm