After more than a week of silence on what caused the Sidekick outage with Danger, the Los Angeles Times today quotes Microsoft spokesperson Tonya Klause, not really explaining what happened, but definitely distancing Microsoft cloud services such as Windows Live …
New Bing Mobile app for China (WL Messenger, too)
While we can have all kinds of fun with numbers about search market share in the US, there’s no getting around the fact that Google dominates. However in China, the search market landscape is quite a bit different than the …
Latest numbers show Bing is down (or up) (or flat)
This month’s numbers for Bing US market share are in, with comScore the latest to report, and while the major reporting services disagree on the exact numbers, the concensus probably is that Bing’s initial push has slowed down. We reported …
Standalone Web Messenger coming to Windows Live?
Thanks to a tip we learn today that Windows Live users in Singapore now have their own standalone version of Windows Live Web Messenger. Just by way of a history lesson, MSN Messenger had a standalone web messenger, and …
Yes Microsoft is to blame for Sidekick (they own it): was it an open source software failure?
The story had been brewing for a week or more: TMobile Sidekick users started reporting that their information stored online: email, contacts, calendar, etc., were inaccessible starting around a week ago Friday. TMobile acknowledged the problem that Sunday, but it …
MSN, Twitter, etc. get to tag along with new Windows Phone
You just can’t make this stuff up. It’s like Microsoft is living in some parallel advertising universe where the object is to generate as much jaw dropping disbelief to their ads as possible. If the Windows 7 launch party videos weren’t enough, …
Photosynth: Overhead View And More
The Photosynth team has released a major new feature called Overhead View. Overhead View allows you to look at the synth from above in 3D points. It also offers a new way of navigation, which is particularly handy for larger …
Windows Phones, My Phone And A Sneak Preview Of Bing For Mobile
Yesterday we told you about Windows Mobile Marketplace going live. Today we can tell you more about which Windows Phones will use Windows Mobile 6.5 and some more about My Phone.
First the phones. Microsoft and its partners now …
Windows Live for Windows Mobile updated
With today’s announcements around the release of Windows Phone (Windows Mobile 6.5) comes not only an updated MyPhone, but upgrades to both the mobile client and web experience for Windows Live for Windows Mobile. Not much from Windows Live …
Someone went phishing: Thousands of Hotmail accounts compromised
Tom Warren at Neowin.net is reporting on the temporary release of thousands of Hotmail addresses and passwords, apparently gathered in some kind of a phishing scam. Microsoft is “actively investigating”, according to Neowin. While this is never good news, …
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