Stunning.

  I was rebuilding my Lenovo X61 Tablet today and took a quick peek at the ThinkVantage Productivity Suite (one of the tools that come with Lenovos).  I noticed that the first link in the list of items was "Experience Lenovo.live.com"...

Buy once, play everywhere.  When it comes to digital content like movies, music and games it sounds like Nirvana.  No matter what my device, no matter what platform it's running I can listen to my tunes, watch my movies or TV programs when I...

Well, MC Hammer proof at least.  He was spotted “surfacing it up” this week at TechCrunch50 in San Fran. Did you know the Surface team have a blog? Check it !

Wow this is cool.  The new Zune (v3) has a feature that allows you to purchase and download a song that you just heard on the radio!  More info here . Still only available in the US, but eventually it’ll make it to Europe.

Loving the new TV/Picture frames from Sony – the E4000 Series as they call it - comes in various sizes up to 40”, is 1080p, comes with preinstalled art, can be used as a TV and you can upload your own art/photos via USB. All it’s missing is the Live Mesh...

One of the most common things we get asked about is how designers and developers can take their Flash skills and apply them to Silverlight.  We’ve been listening to you and have come out with “Project Rosetta” – a website and set of tutorials that...

www.theultimatesteal.co.uk Cheap like the budgie, for university and college students and staff!  You need an email address that ends with .ac.uk.  Offer runs until 30th June 2009! Go, go, go!

Kudos to Long who snapped this demo at TechEd Australia of the Live Mesh Mobile Client.  This is the first appearance of the client and is just the start of a long list of client apps that will be appearing soon – exciting stuff.

So it was finally released in the US, the TV ad that features Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Mixed reactions on the blogosphere some people confused , some excited and some slating it .  Point is, it’s just the start and kicks off the conversation...

New technology that lets you use a mouse on any surface is nearly here, there’s a sneak peak trailer on the Microsoft hardware site .  It’s landing on the 9th, and it’s very nice :-)

I’m heading off tonight to the Isle of Wight ( located here ), where I will be rocking out at the Bestival festival.  Apparently Amy is still due to headline – she’s been doing all her tour dates recently so fingers crossed! On the XBox 360 stage...

Channel 9 coverage of PDC content.  Looking good! Register and find out more about PDC here. Countdown to PDC2008: Secrets Revealed

Last week I watched one of my favourite bands – Turin Brakes - play a free gig in Camden, London .  They were headlining at Intel’s Studio ; a competition for unsigned bands to win a record deal. When they came on stage they told us they haven’t...

Some rather cool PCs got shown off last week in Vegas at the PROJECT fashion show.  I really like the Asus F6V and the HP Touchsmart – the Asus even emits a scent! interesting! ComputerWorld has all the details !

Just booked up my ticket to LA for PDC in October – can’t wait! There’s going to be some really cool technology there so worth the trip! Meet you there! Get some bling for your blog and desktop here !

Gone is the dark and mysterious backdrop to the Mojave Experiment, now there is a fresh and light look and feel to www.mojaveexperiment.com . The “deep zoom” navigation is also really cool and I love the way everything falls into a 3D world with depth...

Cool workshops event in NYC being run by my colleagues state side in New York: Overview of Silverlight & WPF Designer developer workflow using XAML Expression Studio to craft Silverlight and WPF User Experiences Styling and Skinning Data Binding Using...

My prediction is that in the next 6 months there’ll be a new noun in the dictionary: photosynther [foh-toh-sinth-er] – noun An individual that takes many photos of the same object or scene to be later used in Photosynth , a new and exciting technology...

Download and play: www.microsoft.com/ie8 My fav features, so far: Accelerators – select a part of the webpage, click the icon that appears and do stuff like blog, get definitions, find a map etc. Open a new Tab - “What do you want to do next?” – easy...

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In what I can only liken to Great Britain’s current haul at the Olympics, Microsoft UK bloggers have won multiple awards across different categories in the Computer World Blogging awards 2008 .  Congratulations to Steve Clayton’s “ Geek in Disguise...

Just wanted to highlight the TechNet events in Bristol and London that the IT Pro guys are putting in October.  These are essential for anyone that deploys/migrates/maintains SBS and (in the future) EBS and I would recommend attending to get a heads...

Today we rolled out the Live Mesh Technical Preview to Canada, India and Ireland (in English) and those countries now join USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand as we scale up and out with the service.  The developer platform – probably the most exciting...

Just been checking the Microsoft Environment Sustainability Blog and the team has been busy with some announcements recently including a free consumer tool to control power consumption on PCs at a fine grained level using a free tool built by Verdiem...