Photosynth for Windows Phone (finally) released

photosynthLong anticipated, the Photosynth for Windows Phone app has finally made it to the Windows Phone Marketplace, and is available for download now.  The app, which has been available on iOS for more than a year, has been rumored …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
May 29th, 2012 at 8:33 pm

Amazon Instant Video comes to Xbox; Yusuf Mehdi hints at more to come next week at E3

xbox_heroThis morning Amazon.com and Microsoft announced the launch of a new app for Xbox, Amazon Instant Video.  The new app brings new movie releases, current TV episodes, and Prime Instant Video to Xbox Live Gold members, with the Prime …

By Kip Kniskern in News
May 29th, 2012 at 11:51 am

Exclusive: Metro-styled Windows Live Profile website screenshots leaked, Twitter & Sina Weibo connections coming soon

LiveSide first revealed screenshots of the new Microsoft account website last week, showing the upcoming new Metro-styled theme for all Microsoft web services, as well as a rebrand of all references of “Windows Live ID” to “Microsoft account”. Today, LiveSide …

By damaster in Featured News
May 27th, 2012 at 7:00 am

Nokia Phi – new Nokia Windows Phone 8 device revealed

NokiaAs we’re inching closer towards the Windows Phone Developer Summit, to be held on June 20-21 in San Francisco, more and more news (and rumors) about Windows Phone 8 are starting to surface. The latest news came from WMPU

By damaster in Mobile
May 26th, 2012 at 5:40 am

Nokia Maps and Yahoo! Axis: Better than Bing?

map1A couple of Bing related news items today, both about other companies extending and improving upon Bing services, with more to come.

First, Nokia and Bing Maps announced the furthering of their partnership on Maps, this time with live …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 24th, 2012 at 10:41 pm

Tip: Rep says that Windows Phone 8 is for current gen phones

This post was originally posted on My Microsoft Life.

Today I was tipped off to “something big” by a well known source:

Waggener Edstrom person says MSFT has Windows 8 (for x86), Windows RT (for next-gen ARM), & Windows

By kip in Featured Mobile
May 23rd, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Bing’s Visual Search decommissioned

bing visual searchOne of our readers (thanks Quikboy!) pointed out to us yesterday that a one-time prominent beta offering on Bing, Visual Search, is no longer available.  Visual Search was first announced at the TechCrunch 50 conference in September of 2009, …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
May 22nd, 2012 at 12:09 pm

Windows 8 Release Preview to come with built-in News, Sports and Travel apps, powered by Bing

New Metro style appsA few days ago we hinted that there are new bundled Metro style apps coming in the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview. It seems like the secrets are now out of the bag, with WinUnleaked posting a screenshot of the …

By damaster in News
May 22nd, 2012 at 4:34 am

Microsoft refocuses Messenger Social, discontinues “web activities” from July 2012

Windows_Live_Profile_logoSince the release of Windows Live Wave 3, Microsoft added what was then an extension of Windows Live Spaces, allowing every Windows Live ID holder to own a profile, and is able to connect and share their updates with …

By damaster in Featured News
May 18th, 2012 at 7:40 am

SkyDrive.com finally gets URL shortening service SDRV.MS

SkyDrive LogoBack in February, LiveSide exclusively revealed that a URL shortening service is coming to SkyDrive.com. However, interestingly we did not see this feature being added in the last major update which added paid storage plans and desktop sync apps. But …

By damaster in News
May 18th, 2012 at 6:42 am