POP3 Access for Hotmail here/coming soon?

A Dutch website, www.iphoneclub.nl, is reporting that at least some users are able to access Hotmail on their iPhones using POP3, which has been promised for Hotmail for free but up until now has only been available with …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 12th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Live Maps For Finland

Finland now also has Live Maps (Virtual Earth), including 3D and Bird’s Eye images.

FinlandLiveMaps

More details, and a lesson in Finnish, can be found over at Chris Pendleton’s.…

By Sunshine in News
January 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

2009: The Year Ahead – Live Mesh

Live_Mesh 2008 brought us an early look at Live Mesh, at its core a way to synchronize data across devices and into the cloud, using a set of RSS extensions now known as Feedsync.  Starting out with the ability to sync …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
January 11th, 2009 at 7:19 am

Live Search adds background images for China

I’ve been really enjoying the daily background images in the Live Search home page (www.live.com), which have been changing daily since the Olympics:

livesearchUS

(www.live.com/?mkt=en-us)

Unfortunately most other markets don’t get to see background images, but that …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 10th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

Virtual Earth: The City Of Seattle, All You Want To Know Mapped!

No matter if you are already living in Seattle, plan on moving there or if you are just visiting, there’s a wealth of information to be found on Seattle Gov’s “My Neighborhood” mapping application.

SeattleNeighbourhood

Making use of …

By Sunshine in News
January 10th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Messenger Control Helps People Find Jobs!

How would you like it if your future boss (or a recruiter) would contact you on Messenger? It can happen if you are in Latin America and submitted your resume to www.Bumeran.com. Subscribers there can now associate their Bumeran …

By Sunshine in News
January 10th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Live Search takeaways from CES and more

So there’s a bunch of Live Search news that’s emerged in the last 24hours, of which the official CES news was the new search deals with Dell and Verizon wireless.

Out today though there are several new stories:

1) Official …

By Chris in News
January 9th, 2009 at 9:49 am

Live Mesh wins TechCrunch “Crunchies” award: best technology innovation

Congratulations to Ray Ozzie (who accepted the award onstage tonight in San Francisco) and all the Live Mesh team for winning TechCrunch.com’s Crunchies award for best technology innovation:

crunchies

Live Mesh was up against Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 9th, 2009 at 6:25 am

WorldWide Telescope – Solstice Borealis Release

WWTsb WorldWide Telescope has just been updated to version 2.2.41.1 named Solstice Borealis. WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated …

By Sunshine in News
January 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

Windows Live Essentials released, more Windows Live news from CES

Hopefully you’ve been following the news from CES, as we’ve been stuck at work (or fast asleep in Europe and the UK, hating the 6:30pm keynote time).  Anyway let’s take a look at what was announced.

Windows Live

Windows

By Kip Kniskern in News
January 8th, 2009 at 8:04 am