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Microsoft released a virtual 3D mapping of New York (downtown shown here) on its Live Search Maps site on Tuesday. Mapping of other cities is planned as well. Microsoft Virtual Earth gives people photo-realistic 3D bird\’s-eye views of buildings and topography. Last November, the company...

Microsoft Corp. has announced unique email ids for every kind of Indian powered by Windows Live Hotmail beginning with www.lokhandwalarocks.com. Users in India can now chose any email id they want through a feature called custom domains. This initiative is being flagged off by unveiling an email id...

Webaroo has announced the launch of a new group messaging service in India, called “SMS GupShup”. The company says “SMS GupShup” is a free service that offers users a chance to create groups of any size, and communicate within them. The messages sent by the creator of the group...

Live TV on mobile! No, this is not another value-added service spiel on the yet-to-arrive 3G mobile services. It’s about TV to be available on your handset, on existing mobile networks (that is, 2.5G) and as early as next month. Cost containment for communications vendors and their carrier customers...