Today is the release of the next major update for Live Mesh. Performance has been improved and new features added. As before this update will be completely automatic, but if you do not wish to wait for the new …
MobileMe Review
After our original post on MobileMe we came in for some criticism for our rather pro-Apple attitude. Our initial thoughts were that Apple had shown a compelling set of products, that showed some nice design touches and boasted strong integration …
Check out LiveSide on your new iPhone!
OK if you to have to go out and buy a new iPhone, that doesn’t mean you can’t keep up with the latest Windows Live news and information, and in style.
A few months ago we wanted to make it …
Cheap and Easy Online Helpdesk
A lot of professional sites are now including a means of real time chat as part of their helpdesk sites. MSDN has their online concierge service, Dell has an online help, AT&T etc. So how do you do this type …
Looking at the Live Mesh peer-to-peer synch
Channel9 posted an interesting video looking behind the scenes at the Live Mesh peer-to-peer synch. Its 30mins long but if you’ve got the time to kill its worth watching. Some of the topics covered (in order) are:
- The 5GB quota
What Microsoft can learn from the Apple Application store
With today being the iPhone 2.0 launch, there’s a lot of chat about the new Applications Store and Apple touting the 500 third party applications available initially. Ina Fried already questioned Microsoft about how this compares to Windows Mobile, with …
Windows “Live-ly”? Will there be a 3D story?
In case you missed it, Google released a new toy into beta today, called Lively. In a nod to Software + Services, you download and install an app in Windows, and then log in to Lively. Here’s a description …
Microsoft demos Photos + Virtual Earth imagery mashup at Pro Photo Summit
Yet another Microsoft conference, yet more demos of unreleased technology. Today and tomorrows events is the Pro Photo Summit, which Kip, Brandon Le Blanc, Scoble and others are attending.
Scoble was streaming some of the footage from his …
“The website is down” – LiveSide.net edition
First, of course, our apologies for another 18 hour outage. Almost exactly two weeks ago, a problem at our web host involving a shared power supply to our server …
New Video Series, Behind The Maps – The Technology Of Virtual Earth
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of Virtual Earth? Curious what cameras are used and what happens after the pictures are taken? How do they end up on Live Maps? Wonder no more, Mark Brown started …
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