Last month Microsoft changed the default log-in experience on their Live services, which include Hotmail.  The change meant doing away with the tile you could click (that was also more finger-friendly) and the “Remember me” box and replacing them with a more ‘traditional’ text entry box for your username. In order to make the system [...]

Categories: Microsoft

It’s been on the cards for a couple of years now but today YouTube has launched its new Live service.  New live streaming video can be found at www.youtube.com/live and they follow several tests that included high-profile concerts and events. This now puts YouTube, which already gets around 2 billion video views every day, up against [...]

Categories: The Web

For those in the US (or insomniacs in Europe) gHacks editor Mike Halsey will be the guest on the Computer America radio show tonight for a whole two hours.  The show has been running for 19 years and is the #1 daily tech podcast according to the New York Times. The show will be broadcast [...]

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Google’s new social networking service, Google Wave, launched last year to a huge fanfare and and equally huge controversy over privacy.  Many users complained that anyone befriending you on the service could then see personal contact details of everyone else if your address book. The service was based around  real-time character-by character chat typing, drag-and-drop [...]

Categories: Google

What better way to test a new or improved search engine than to be stuck with it for a full week without being able to fall back to other search engines. Bing is the new Microsoft search engine and we would like to invite each and everyone of you to test the ins and outs [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Worio is a clever mashup of several search engines, social bookmarking and personalization features. At its core stands the feature to add related information to searches performed by the user. Currently Google, Yahoo, Live and an internal search engine are at the user’s disposal. The search results are displayed on the left including their title, [...]

Categories: Online Services, Search Engines, The Web

The public beta downloads of Windows Live Wave 3 will be available for everyone later today. If you cannot wait to get your hands on the newest beta of Windows Live you can download the installers right away which will download the selected applications directly from the Microsoft servers. The installer lets you choose the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I have no idea how soon before we see a general release of the next wave of Windows Live services, however more information is becoming available and a lot of new features are being announced: Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail is a great little program, a desktop mail application which provides a simplified Outlook [...]

Categories: Windows

Windows Live is rapidly maturing into a very real and competitive set of products. Each individual service isn’t the best solution, excluding Windows Live Writer perhaps, but it does have a huge advantage over all other alternatives; the Windows Live ID. The Live ID gives a unified profile across the whole Live suite and is [...]

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