AT&T Launches Child Locator Service With Virtual Earth

AT&TfammapWorried about your child’s whereabouts when he/she isn’t at home? AT&T just launched a service, called FamilyMap, that allows you to follow your child in real time via his/her mobile phone (yep, it does require your child to have …

By Sunshine in News
April 18th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Support Publishing To DeepZoomPix!

Just two days ago, we were wondering if the Deep Zoom Composer will be updated for use with DeepZoomPix, as it previously supported uploading to PhotoZoom. Wonder no more! It has indeed been updated and you can download it, …

By Sunshine in News
April 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am

Spaces Team shuts down their blog (eh, what?)

spacecraft From the News of the Weird Department, the team that makes the blogging software for Microsoft, Windows Live Spaces, has decided to shut down their, umm, blog.  Posts on The Space Craft and Windows Live Wire announced on Friday …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 18th, 2009 at 2:45 am

Windows Live Video Messages joins the Wave 3 family too, update coming soon! (Updated)

Vmessages The Windows Live Video Messages team just announced on their blog that their website will get an update in two weeks. Included in this update will be a change in the header to match the rest of the Windows …

By damaster in Featured News
April 17th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Microsoft Live Labs goes through re-org – new projects coming soon

Untitled-2 Microsoft Live Labs, the teams that brought us many exciting new technologies such as Photosynth, Seadragon (DeepZoom), Deepfish, Listas, Volta, Thumbtack and many more, had recently underwent a major re-organisation. Contrary to recent rumours

By damaster in News
April 17th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

Translator coming for websites; available for Office now

At Mix 09, the Microsoft Translator team announced a new web page widget, built on top of a new AJAX API, and put up a sign up sheet for anyone who was interested in trying it out.  We …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 17th, 2009 at 8:54 am

PhotoZoom Is Now DeepZoomPix

Did you spend a lot of time creating your PhotoZoom albums, as I have? Then take note of the following:

PhotoZoom is now DeepZoomPix!

PhotoZoom got released in March 2008 and can be seen as the initial incarnation …

By Sunshine in News
April 16th, 2009 at 10:27 pm

Zune HD Specs, What We Do & Don’t Know

With all the rumors flying around this week, Its been difficult to discern the fact from the fan-fiction. To help clear up some of this fog, me and  Sean Bradford over at neowin.net decided to put our facts together. We
By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
April 15th, 2009 at 10:08 pm

Why All The Zune Leaks? The Buzz Is Deafening!

I don’t know about you, but my head is spinning from all this Zune news. Well the buzz from the leaks may be deafening, the silence from Microsoft is positively ear shattering.

Trying to keep something under wraps in this …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 15th, 2009 at 8:20 am

Live Search cashback updated; now integrated with Live Search Products

Live Search cashback, the program that pays US users of Live Search to purchase certain products after conducting Live Searches for them, has been integrated into Live Search Products, according to a blog post on the Live Search team blog

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
April 15th, 2009 at 4:17 am