As those of you who follow me on Twitter will know I took part in a SkyDrive event in London last Friday and I thought I’d share with you some of the details of the event. (The below picture was taken with my Lumia 800 by the way and I’ve not edited it at all) [...]

By the end of this year not only will Twitter be integrated into the People Hub, or SkyDrive integrated into the Office Hub, or internet browsing be hardware accelerated and standards compliant powered by IE9 but also there will be full multitasking on the phones. These were the main announcements made at MWC for what’s [...]

Back in January I wrote an article about what people were saying about their own “my Microsoft life” by taking a snapshot of tweets for a Twitter search of “my Microsoft life”. What I found was that in a list of 19 tweets there were 7 pro Microsoft tweets, 9 anti Microsoft and 3 tweets [...]

This morning I checked my emails and ended up following a link to twitter.com which then redirects to mobile.twitter.com. Obviously that’s not interesting but what I did find interesting was the bar that appears at the top of the page that informed people using any Twitter page on their Windows Phone 7 that they should [...]

Seeing as there is currently a lot of talk of improvements to Bing in the form of a HTML5 enable version of the search engine following Google announcement of instant searches I thought I’d share with you a few tweaks I have thought of for the Bing Image search. Slideshow option When searching image on [...]

Bing has a new beta page for searches, Bing Social. This pulls information from Twitter and Facebook with options to select the time frame and the source, whether it is public updates or Shared Links. As with most things to do with Facebook at the moment there might be fears about people’s information being shared [...]

For the past month or so Windows has teamed up with Sky and toured universities around the UK informing student just how great Windows 7 is and how they can access Sky through their PC. This is a great way to increase mindshare of Windows but there is much more to Windows Access All Areas [...]

Today Microsoft is thought to have unveiled a new look MSN for the UK, although I haven’t found any official word on this yet the the new look site will be going live at 8:30 PM. The new design for the site keeps the basic look, blue background and header with many links, but adds [...]

Microsoft have just launched an alpha release of another new social network oriented service called Project Emporia which “allows users who may not otherwise use social networks to get information on topics from the public Twitter feeds”. It works by allowing anyone to view a stream of Tweets from a specific “lens” or category using [...]

Long Zheng has found another excellent video about a new product/service that Microsoft is working on. This time it comes in the way of a Microsoft sponsored project to bring a more visual, perhaps personal, twitter-like service to consumers. This service appears to use the Xbox Live service found on the Xbox and soon Windows [...]