Long 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 …
Photosynth for Windows Phone (finally) released
Amazon Instant Video comes to Xbox; Yusuf Mehdi hints at more to come next week at E3
This 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 …
Nokia Phi – new Nokia Windows Phone 8 device revealed
As 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…
Nokia Maps and Yahoo! Axis: Better than Bing?
A 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 …
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
Bing’s Visual Search decommissioned
One 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, …
Windows 8 Release Preview to come with built-in News, Sports and Travel apps, powered by Bing
A 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 …
Microsoft refocuses Messenger Social, discontinues “web activities” from July 2012
Since 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 …
SkyDrive.com finally gets URL shortening service SDRV.MS
Back 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 …
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