One problem with an open and accessible web is that you can get to, copy, and re-use just about anything, regardless of its license. Up until now, it’s been difficult at best to try to do the right thing and …
Bing supports Creative Commons licensing: adds “Search by License” feature
Exclusive: Recent activity feed coming to SkyDrive.com
Last week, we exclusively reported that Microsoft is busy planning a whole range of new features for its SkyDrive service (despite disputes over its trademark over in the UK). Today, LiveSide has learnt that one of these features that is …
OneNote for Android, iPhone, iPad updated
Today, Microsoft announced “major updates” to its OneNote apps for Android, iPhone, and iPad. Bringing a consistent look across all devices (that is, bringing the Android and iOS apps up to par with Windows apps), the Ribbon to iPad, …
Microsoft launches Xbox Music on the web
Last week we reported that Microsoft is expected to launch a web-based version of its Xbox Music service sometime this week, and today the service is now online.
Available at http://music.xbox.com, the service greatly resembles the newly redesigned Windows …
WebGL for IE11 will enable Bing Maps 3D
Among the number of announcements Microsoft made at last week’s Build, two stand out not only for their significance, but for their relationship. For the first time, Microsoft is including the open-source graphics rendering javascript API known as WebGL, …
The death of Google Reader (we move on)
Well, nothing like waiting til the last minute. Tomorrow (July 1st), Google will shut down Google Reader, which as you may know we’ve been using to aggregate our list of feeds for “Blogs We Like“. While a …
Windows 8.1 Mail app demoed at Build
It’s the last day of Build, but the sessions are going strong, and today in a session on “Stories from building the new Windows Mail app”, Windows Mail app Lead PM Jeremy Epling demoed the new version of the Mail …
Build Day One: Windows 8.1, IE, SkyDrive, and the post Sinofsky era
By now, you’re probably all caught up on the headline news coming out of Build today, and hopefully you’ve downloaded the Windows 8.1 bits (if not, they’re available at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview). If you were watching the live stream, we hear …
Sprint announces two new Windows Phone 8 devices – HTC 8XT and Samsung ATIV S Neo
It was announced at the beginning of the year at CES 2013 that Windows Phone 8 is coming to Sprint, US’s third largest carrier, by “summer” of this year. Today, the company has officially announced two brand new Windows Phone …
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