The SkyDrive Team Blog has just posted about an update they are rolling out. The main changes to come are sorting your files how you want them, and viewing pictures of your friends who have been tagged (using WL …
Ad Agencies vie for “Pink” campaign: Zune enabled phones coming soon?
Hot on the heels of Twitter as a source of breaking news, we’re getting a lot of good stuff lately from ad agency watchers like Ad Age and Ad Week. The latest comes from an Ad Week article reporting on …
Windows Live Sync joins the Wave 3 family
Windows Live Sync, the file sharing/synchronization program formerly known as FolderShare, updated their web component today to be more in line with the rest of the Windows Live Wave 3 properties. The new simple interface has been upgraded from the …
Microsoft lands Deadliest Catch, beats YouTube and Yahoo to 7 figure deal
In its first ad campaign to simultaneously combine Internet, mobile, and video game ads, Microsoft beat out Google’s YouTube and Yahoo! for an ad deal with Discovery Communications, Inc. to promote the upcoming 5th season of “The Deadliest Catch”, according …
How many Softies use Live Search?
In a blog post today, Ina Fried at CNET News quoted a Microsoft employee who recalled hearing some sobering statistics about Google vs. Live Search usage within Microsoft:
…At a company meeting about a year ago, one Microsoft worker recalls
What in the world is Tegra?
Tegra is Nvidia’s 1st foray into the mobile computing realm. Nvidia is the company that makes the awesome video cards for your desktops and laptops. Most higher end machines use some type of powerful GPU made by ether Nvidia or ATI. …
Virtual Earth API, 3D updates
Last fall Virtual Earth released version 6.2 of their API, including the Virtual Earth AJAX control, and late yesterday it has been updated, according to a blog post on Chris Pendleton’s Virtual Earth Evangelist’s blog.
…Today we released
Live ID goes down around the world (back now)
A problem with Live ID apparently caused Hotmail, Xbox Live, Zune Marketplace, and other users around the world to be without those services for at least an hour this evening (Seattle time).
A comment on our first story blames the …
The Zune HD is real!
A few hours ago engadget leaked screenshots from a video for the Zune HD. Microsoft’s 4th generation of its vastly under loved Zune media player. I can confirm that those are in fact real screenshots of the “Zune HD” (not …
The Internet, Where Do We Spend Our Time? Internet To Overtake TV In June 2010
What is driving time online? What do we do on the Internet? Ever wondered about that? Microsoft has been studying a number of European statistics coming from their own services as well as external data and found the following:
Content …
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