Silverlight for Mobile, more, for Nokia phones?

mstalentnetwork WMPowerUser has spotted a job posting at Microsoft Careers (which is sporting a new redesign of its own, and a new name, the “Microsoft Talent Network”), offering up a job in India for an SDE, and some interesting …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:57 pm

Bing Maps Imagery Release, January 2010 (Part 2)

The second part of the January Bing Maps imagery release (total January release: over 1 million sq. km.) has just been released. This time containing 446,000+ square kilometers of new ortho imagery for:

  • Brisbane (Australia)
  • Brisbane International Airport Area (Australia)
By Sunshine in Bing
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:26 am

Windows Azure: Billing starts February 2

The Windows Azure platform is now generally available in the following 21 countries:

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the United States.

Support …

By Sunshine in News
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:02 am

Messenger Web Toolkit updated: version 3.7 available now

The Messenger Web Toolkit, which lets you offer Windows Live Messenger functions from within your blog, has just been updated to version 3.7, according to a blog post on The Windows Live Messenger Developer blog.

Changes include offering Offline …

By Kip Kniskern in Developer
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:22 am

Bing: “built out to be a much larger player”, will be profitable, says Yusuf Mehdi

binglogo In an interview posted today at Reuters, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President, Online Audience Business, talked about the Yahoo! search deal, profitability, MSN, AOL, and more.  Mehdi expects closing the Yahoo! search deal to be a milestone moment, saying …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 am

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4: New screenshots emerge

Last week we told you about some of the upcoming new features and changes to Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4. Only a week later, Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net was able to get hold of some screenshots of the new Hotmail, …

By damaster in News
January 31st, 2010 at 5:52 am

Speaking Bing’s language: New Microsoft Translator session at Mix10

Looks like it’s time to pay closer attention to the sessions being added for Mix 10 in March.  In addition to some promised upcoming sessions for “the next generation of Windows Phone”, we just noticed a new session …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 30th, 2010 at 6:01 am

Windows Live, the #2 social networking site?

An article in today’s Economist, “A world of connections”, is a fairly standard recap of the popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, with a bit of context from the World Economic Forum in Davos …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 29th, 2010 at 6:28 pm

Bing improvements: Twitter Maps, Investor info, and a Mars game

A couple of Bing news items from the Bing blog, and one from Microsoft Fuse Labs.  First, from Fuse Labs at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development offices comes word of some improvements to one of the Bing Maps apps, …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
January 29th, 2010 at 6:00 pm

A fresh new look at Windows Live Home Wave 4 (Part 1)

Remember last time we showed you a glimpse of Windows Live Home Wave 4? More information has poured in today showing the capabilities of the “Share something new” box. It happens that unlike Twitter (or the current Windows …

By damaster in News
January 29th, 2010 at 8:55 am