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• Windows Marketplace for Mobile Now Available on the Web

  When Microsoft launched its new Windows Marketplace for Mobile alongside Windows Mobile 6.5 in early October, the online store was only available via a custom app on compatible Windows Mobile 6.5-based devices. But now, as promised, you can access the... Posted Nov 12 2009, 06:28 PM by pthurrott with | with 30 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Mobile, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Windows Live Gets YouTube, 18 More Content Partners

  From Microsoft: This week, 19 new third-party feed partners will be rolling out globally on Windows Live, bringing the total of feed partners up to 75 global web companies, so over 450 million Windows Live customers have even more ways to share what they're... Posted Nov 11 2009, 01:48 PM by pthurrott with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Microsoft Reveals Bing Video Experience

  Microsoft today expanded the capabilities of its Bing decision engine to include a new Bing Video destination that combines Bing video search and quality content from MSN Video. The integrated experience provides a new online video destination that delivers... Posted Nov 11 2009, 12:26 PM by pthurrott with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Digital media, Cloud computing

• SkyDrive Explorer

  I've been hoping and looking for some kind of solution that would let people access their 25 GB of free storage space on Windows Live SkyDrive using simple, Explorer-based drag and drop. It's been kind of a tough slog all year, however, with only... Posted Nov 04 2009, 12:06 PM by pthurrott with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing, Podcast

• Twitter Comes to Bing

  Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Qi Lu, President of Microsoft's Online Services Division, announced a new beta feature that enables people to easily search Twitter's real-time information feed directly in Bing. This new feature helps... Posted Oct 21 2009, 04:48 PM by pthurrott with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Cloud computing

• SharePoint 2010 Revealed

  At its SharePoint Conference 2009 today in Las Vegas, Microsoft revealed details about the next version of its SharePoint platform . "By taming the overflow of information across systems and technologies, SharePoint enables organizations to thrive... Posted Oct 19 2009, 05:02 PM by pthurrott with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft Office, Cloud computing

• Get Windows 7 Help From Microsoft on Twitter

  From Microsoft: Today Microsoft launched @MicrosoftHelps , a new Twitter handle that provides customers around the world with help and information on Windows 7, in English.  Through this social medium, Microsoft will monitor and respond to real-time... Posted Oct 15 2009, 07:58 PM by pthurrott with | with 46 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Cloud computing

• Google to Reveal More Chrome OS Details Thursday Night

  Stung by a recent leak, Google will now host a special event tomorrow (Thursday) night at which they will reveal more details about their mysterious Chrome OS: Join us for an evening at Google featuring presentations by Paul Rademacher on Google Maps... Posted Oct 14 2009, 09:27 PM by pthurrott with | with 45 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Alt. Windows, Cloud computing

• Courier User Interface

  Gizmodo continues its exclusive look at what is apparently a new Tablet PC design from Microsoft, the Courier. In this new video, you can actually see how the Courier would work in the real world, with a cool page-flipping experience that emulates a real... Posted Sep 30 2009, 11:32 AM by pthurrott with | with 62 comment(s) Filed under: Mobile, Cloud computing

• An Operating System for the Cloud

  You have to be a paid subscriber to read the full article (or just purchase the print version, or pay online per article) but MIT's Technology Review has published a fascinating article about Google's Chrome OS efforts by none other than "Showstoppers"... Posted Sep 27 2009, 12:38 PM by pthurrott with | with 43 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• AT&T enters 21st century, adds MMS to iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS

  Apple : MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is now available to AT&T customers. AT&T MMS requires iPhone OS 3.1 and a carrier settings update. Here's what it looks like (on a Mac) ... Unlike other iPhone updates I've installed via iTunes... Posted Sep 26 2009, 10:47 AM by pthurrott with | with 39 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Digital media, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support

  This is big stuff, and if there's anyone actually paying for MobileMe a year from now, well, you already looked like a fool, so what's the difference? The Google Mobile Blog reports today that Google has added push email support to Google Sync... Posted Sep 22 2009, 01:57 PM by pthurrott with | with 69 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Google: Apple DID reject Google Voice. Thus, Apple DID lie to the FCC

  Google's response ( here it is in PDF format ) to the FCC firmly states that Apple lied, pure and simple: Apple's representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejecte d because Apple believed the application duplicated... Posted Sep 19 2009, 04:04 PM by pthurrott with | with 73 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Google Chrome 3.0

  Just one year into its life and 2.8 percent market share later, Google Chrome hits the big 3.0... Thanks to a full year of great feedback from our users, we're kicking off our second year of Google Chrome with a brand new stable release . This stable... Posted Sep 15 2009, 03:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 30 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing

• MySpace, Hulu and more on Windows Live this week

  From Microsoft: 23 new third-party feed partners and 4 new contacts partners will be rolling out globally on Windows Live this week, giving 500 million+ Windows Live customers even more ways to share their online lives and communicate with the people... Posted Sep 14 2009, 02:48 PM by pthurrott with | with 42 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Cloud computing