Live Search for Windows Mobile has just received an update, bringing out the features announced at CTIA last month. While it provides the standard mapping and local search that we’ve come to expect, it now adds the following:
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So what’s the deal with Microsoft and Yahoo!?
Today, billionaire investor Carl Icahn sent a letter to the Yahoo! Board of Directors, announcing his intentions to force Yahoo! to work out a deal with Microsoft. He announced a slate of candidates who will be up for election …
Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) is available now
In another “not quite Windows Live but still cool” post, Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now available in both Silverlight v1.o and 2.0 builds. Silverlight, while it still has a long way …
World Wide Telescope from MS Research is Live
While this isn’t strictly a Windows Live service, it is still very cool stuff and we told you about it when it was first announced, and now the World Wide Telescope is live and available for download.
Check it out …
Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger coming to RIM Blackberry this summer
At the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Florida today, Microsoft and Research in Motion (RIM) are announcing an agreement to provide, Windows Live services, including Hotmail and Messenger, on Blackberrys. The enhancements will be available “this summer”.
From the press …
First of Many New Live Developer Articles
Hello fellow LiveSide readers, my name is John O’Brien. Its my second season as a Windows Live Developer/Platform MVP and I’m pleased to announce many new developer related articles in the works for your reading pleasure here at LiveSide. Today …
Create a Deep Zoom Panorama with Windows Live
In this article I will show you how to use a combination of free tools and services to produce and host a high quality panorama. You will render this using Silverlight2 and display it geo-referenced on Virtual Earth. The combination …
WL Msgr YouTube.com blocking: “Oops, all better now”
In the past few days a number of reports came in that Windows Live Messenger was blocking the ability to send legitimate urls through Messenger, including most noticeably www.youtube.com. While there was some sinister speculation as to the …
Live Mesh Guys love to blog!
At Web 2.0 Expo, I was impressed by how open and talkative the Live Mesh guys were – of course that could have been because they’ve been locked away unable to talk for two years. Well now they just won’t …
Don’t look now, Live Search viral videos worst yet
We thought we’d seen it all when it came to viral videos used by Microsoft to advertise new products. From the “Hot Male” series (pretty good) through to the MSN “No one wants to look dumb” series …
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