Microsoft opens up Live Mesh for basic mobile access

After a great tip from one of our readers in our first Mesh tutorial, it appears as though the Live Mesh mobile portal has now also been opened up to the public. Available at http://m.mesh.com, the website provides …

By Chris in Featured News
July 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

Microsoft’s Online Services Business posts $0.5bn loss in Q4 2008

So there’s a bunch of financial results out today, including Microsoft, Google and IBM, all of whom posted strong profit growths in the last quarter (what impending recession?) Anyway I’ve broken down the results for the Online Services …

By Chris in News
July 17th, 2008 at 6:53 am

Windows Live Calendar Upgraded

Live Calendar has had an (Wave 3) upgrade whilst I was asleep. No major UI change, but there is some new stuff! Events are now integrated, in other words you can now create events from within Calendar. Old news, check …

By Sunshine in News
July 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open

Where we were wondering before, we can now confirm that Live Mesh is indeed open to anyone with a valid Windows Live ID. Open to anyone in the US without having to adjust a thing, and open to anybody …

By Sunshine in News
July 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

Live Mesh available for all US Live IDs (?)

Picturepan2 just tipped us that Live Mesh seems to be open and available if you have a US Live ID.  I just tried one of my backup accounts and got right in.  We don’t see any announcement from the Live …

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

Live Mesh Is Open, But With A Cap?

We previously reported that Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open. Well it is according to the Live Mesh Forum Announcement, but with a possible cap by the looks of it! We apparently created quite a stir in the …

By Sunshine in News
July 16th, 2008 at 3:49 am

Microsoft ad spend rises to $500m – Windows.com gets “FTP” update and promotes Windows Live

Today saw another Microsoft ad campaign being won by the agencies, this time for the Business Solutions unit, with $200m being the amount touted for winning the enterprise advertising. This is in addition to the $300m for the consumer …

By Chris in News
July 14th, 2008 at 6:53 am

Carl Icahn spins a different story on latest MSFT-YHOO deal

On Saturday we got the Yahoo! spin on things, and now this morning Carl Icahn fires back, in an open letter to Yahoo! shareholders.  I mentioned the heavy amount of spin in the Yahoo! press release, and Icahn noticed, too:…

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 14th, 2008 at 2:56 am

Yahoo! rejects latest doozy from Microsoft/Carl Icahn

Microsoft and Carl Icahn proposed a new offer to Yahoo! on Friday, and according to the Yahoo! press release (if you can believe Yahoo! press releases, and a college level course on “public relations spin” could be taught using only …

By Kip Kniskern in News
July 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Live Mesh tutorial: Synchronising browser favourites across devices

With yesterday’s Live Mesh update that allows users to enable peer-to-peer synchronisation and miss out the cloud sync, we thought we’d take a look at one practical example of this – browser favourites. The scenario is familiar, you’re not on …

By Chris in Featured News
July 12th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
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