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Photosynth comes out of the lab

Microsoft has taken its Photosynth Live Labs project ( previous site ) public: We’re pleased to announce the first full release of Photosynth, available now at photosynth.com . Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment. ...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-20-2008
FCC approves Microsoft’s unreleased 120GB Zune

Long Zheng reports on a new Zune model on the horizon: Ever since Samsung had announced their new 120GB 1.8-inch hard drive in April 2007, Zune fansites has been buzzing with anticipation of a new Zune fitted with the higher capacity drives. Now the wait is nearly over as the FCC publishes a test report...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-18-2008
Bad Windows Update, bad

And if I could hit you on the snout with a rolled-up newspaper, I would. I get home from Ireland and my desktop PC is asking to install an important update. It's called "Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB 955359)." Now, I do use Windows Live Photo Gallery and I am, of course, an...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-12-2008
Microsoft confirms that Fiji is a joke

Mary Jo Foley finally convinced Microsoft to come clean on Fiji , the thoroughly uninteresting Media Center update. Here’s what they told her (emphasis mine): On July 16th, 2008, Microsoft released an update to the version of Windows Media Center included with Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-08-2008
MobileMe photo upload finally fixed on Windows

I check almost every single day to see whether it’s finally possible for Windows users to upload photos to MobileMe using a Web browser. It’s never worked right. But as of today, it actually works. To be a bit more clear, it “sort of worked” before in that it would work on only one supported browser...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-29-2008
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is now available

The Windows Home Server blog has information about the final release of Power Pack 1 which, among other things, fixes the infamous data corruption issue: The team is pleased to announce that Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is now available on the Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-21-2008
Xbox 360 and Netflix Team Up

Looks like Netflix customers are going to have another avenue for enjoying movie content this fall: An exciting new home theater experience is coming to living rooms this holiday season. At E3, Microsoft and Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service, today unveiled an exclusive partnership...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
RealNetworks goes DRM-free

So RealNetwork announced this morning that it is just the latest online music service to offer DRM-free MP3 tracks. What's interesting about this is the press they're getting: Apparently no one realizes that the Rhapsody subscriptions still use DRM. Anyhoo, here are a few links: Taking the Wraps...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-30-2008
Starbucks Dumping CDs, iTunes Gift Cards

I've discussed the horror show that is Starbucks before, and it seems like the company is continuing its slow retreat back to a pure-play café experience. I think I'm OK with that: Starbucks, which has been scaling back its once-grand ambitions to turn itself into an entertainment hub, is...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-25-2008
Apple sells over 5 billion songs via iTunes Store

From Apple PR : Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store ( www.itunes.com ). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. Also, iTunes customers are now...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-19-2008

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