The 56th annual Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival has named Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, as Media Person of the Year. The annual award will be presented to Ballmer, who will speak at the event in a Microsoft Advertising seminar, …
Advertising festival names Steve Ballmer “Media Person of the Year”
Virtual Earth Imagery Release, March 2009
Last month only Obliques were added to Virtual Earth, this month it’s solely Ortho, 21TB’s worth! Not a huge release in terms of terabytes, but huge in terms of square kilometers of the world (63 countries are represented). Lots …
The City Of Seattle Traveler’s Information Map
After the My Neighbourhood Map, which shows anything you may want to know whilst in the city, the City of Seattle added yet another Virtual Earth app to their site. This time it’s all about transportation. The Traveler’s …
WorldWide Telescope: Nearly 2 Million Regular Users And Two Award Nominations!
Since its public release in May 2008, nearly 2 million people around the world downloaded the free desktop observatory. PC World called World Wide Telescope a “phenomenal resource for enthusiasts, students, and teachers,” and tech blogger Robert Scoble called …
Zune coming to Windows Mobile, but not until WM7: report
WMPowerUser is reporting today that they’ve heard that Zune is coming to Windows Mobile, but not in 6.5. According to them, Zune for Windows Mobile won’t be coming until Windows 7, but that it will be a “pretty full implementation …
New Office Live Workspace Template For Travel
Always worried if you packed everything for your trip? Are the ones left behind fully informed? Office Live Workspace has a new template to help you with all this.
To create, just sign in to your account and in the …
Live Mesh version update: bug fixes, new features
If you have Live Mesh for Windows installed, today you should be receiving a version update, to 0.9.3432.31, according to a post on the Live Mesh forums. Included in the update are both bug fixes (including optimized MOE CPU/memory …
GeoSynth: Microsoft’s answer to Google Street View?
Pocket-lint, the “largest independent gadget news and reviews site in the UK”, is reporting today that Microsoft plans to take on Google’s Street View with a “public-led” offering based on PhotoSynth technology and Silverlight to “allow users to upload …
Windows Live Photos integrates with FrameIt
We told you it was coming the last time we told you about the new Windows Live FrameIt, and we’ve seen FrameIt integrated with Facebook already. This time it’s Microsoft’s very own service that gets the integration – yes you …
Windows Live Mythbusters Part II
A few weeks ago our friend Dena over at Neowin caught a Windows Live live commercial on Mythbusters, and tonight, LiveSide reader Orion was able to capture a new one:
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Thanks to Orion for taking the time to and having …
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