Tom Warren moves to the Verge

tom warren the vergeCongratulations are in order today as Tom Warren, long of Neowin.net and founder of Winrumors.com announced on Winrumors that he will be moving to The Verge as UK Senior Editor.  Tom has worked incredibly hard this past year on …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 13th, 2011 at 1:21 pm

MSN Video available on Xbox; YouTube soon? (updated)

Last week’s Xbox 360 dashboard update is already getting new content through Xbox Live, as MSN today is announcing that a new MSN Video app is now available.  The app, available for download on Xbox Live today, makes MSN …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 13th, 2011 at 12:28 pm

SkyDrive apps for iPhone (now) and Windows Phone (soon) released

ms-SkyDrive_h_rgbMicrosoft announced new SkyDrive apps for both Windows Phone and iPhone this morning in a blog post on Inside Windows Live.  We pointed out a hint of just such an app on the way last week via a comment by …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
December 13th, 2011 at 11:14 am

Windows Phone management shakeup at the top: Lees out, Meyerson moves up

Ina Fried at All Things D is reporting that Windows Phone President Andy Lees is moving to a new position in the company, to work directly for Steve Ballmer on new opportunities for Windows Phone and Windows 8, according to …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
December 12th, 2011 at 2:46 pm

OneNote for iPad coming to App Store soon

Today OneNote for iPhone app gets an update, as usual, with some performance and reliability improvements. But interestingly, the update hints that an OneNote for iPad app is finally coming to iTunes App Store.

OneNote for iPad coming to App Store soon

Though OneNote for iPad is …

By Picturepan2 in Mobile
December 12th, 2011 at 9:24 am

Lync now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace

contoso lyncIf you’re in an enterprise that uses the Lync  integrated audio, video, and web conferencing system , or if you use Office 365, you can now download and install the Lync mobile client for Windows Phone.  Lync has been known …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
December 11th, 2011 at 4:41 pm

Handyscan for Windows Phone, the first SkyDrive API app

Our friends at WMPowerUser.com noticed a tweet by Omar Shahine, the Group Program Manager from SkyDrive, pointing out that the first third party app to make use of SkyDrive’s new APIs is now available:

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/OmarShahine/status/145346494860492801″]

Handyscan turns out …

By Kip Kniskern in News
December 10th, 2011 at 2:29 pm

More info (and some speculation) on the “Microsoft Live” rebranding

What if you rebranded your services and nobody knew?  Isn’t the point of a brand to, you know, get people focused on your products?  Kind of hard to do that when we don’t even know what the brand is, and …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
December 8th, 2011 at 10:02 am

(Another) New Bing UI spotted: have you seen it?

Looks like the folks at Bing are back at it again, testing new versions of the UI, while not saying much about them or how (or even when) the changes will roll out more broadly.

This latest look seems to …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
December 8th, 2011 at 8:56 am

So what IS the deal with the Windows Live Messenger “Microsoft Live” Facebook app?

Sometime in the past few weeks, Microsoft apparently changed the name of the Facebook app for Windows Live Messenger.  The app, used to connect Messenger and Facebook chat so you can chat with your Facebook friends from the Windows Live …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
December 7th, 2011 at 10:33 pm