Are you a Bing “Advocate”?

Clicking through the Bing Rewards button on the Bing home page today yielded and interesting discovery, a new Bing Advocacy Program:

bing advocacy

Open to US residents 13 or over, the program is looking for charter members in a new community …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
August 25th, 2011 at 9:33 am

Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” supports WiFi internet sharing/tethering

It seems like Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” still has a few surprises for us. Today the guys at WPCentral posted a photo showing a Samsung Focus running the RTM version of “Mango” (Build 7720.68) with internet sharing/tethering enabled. Here’s the …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
August 25th, 2011 at 2:36 am

Rumor: Official SkyDrive app for Windows Phone coming soon – supports music streaming?

It had been an on and off story with music streaming on Windows Phone using SkyDrive. Back in May this year, we first reported that Windows Phone “Mango” might support music streaming from SkyDrive, however later Microsoft outright denied that …

By damaster in Mobile
August 24th, 2011 at 7:00 pm

MSN China announces partnership with Chinese social network Renren

RenrenMicrosoft’s joint venture firm MSN China announced today that they had just inked a partnership with China’s social-networking site Renren.com, often referred to as the Facebook of China, to cooperate in areas of instant messaging and social networking using …

By damaster in News
August 24th, 2011 at 5:11 am

Microsoft confirms Windows Phone “Tango” to be the next update

Windows Phone TangoWe first heard about the existence of Windows Phone “Tango”, said to be the interim update between Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” and Windows Phone 8 “Apollo”, back in June this year when Compal CEO Ray Chen let slip of the …

By damaster in Featured Mobile
August 24th, 2011 at 4:28 am

Zune software update: 4.8 is ready for Mango

Although Windows Phone developers and others running pre release versions of Mango have had it for a while, Microsoft today made version 4.8 of the Zune Software available for download.  You can “Check for Updates” via Settings>General (we’re not seeing …

By Kip Kniskern in News
August 23rd, 2011 at 9:36 am

Yes Frank, the horse has left the barn– it’s not Plus PC, it’s Past PC

horse and barnOK so I like Frank Shaw.  I liked him when he worked at Waggener Edstrom, although we never really dealt directly together, and I like him at Microsoft.  I also quite like him as a person, as a writer, and …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Opinion
August 21st, 2011 at 11:37 pm

New reminders in Hotmail Calendars

LiveSide reader DrWhoFan98 (thanks!) just pointed us to what appears to be a new feature in Hotmail Calendars (previously called Windows Live Calendars), “new reminders”:

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The old Calendar options page is pretty basic:

calendar reminders old

but in the new one (after you’ve …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
August 21st, 2011 at 9:04 am

Linking Windows Live ID’s possible again

Remember how all of a sudden you couldn’t link Windows Live IDs anymore? How disappointed we were and in some cases how angry we got because of this possibility disappearing just like that? Well, all the feedback you gave, here …

By Sunshine in Featured News
August 18th, 2011 at 11:57 am

“We’re In”: A Bing app that comes to Windows Phone (gasp!) first!

Today Bing announced a new collaborative app for Windows Phone (or other mobile devices through a mobile web interface) called We’re In.  Simply put, We’re In allows you to invite, and then map the locations of your friends.  What makes …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
August 18th, 2011 at 9:51 am
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