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Entertainment

Blockbuster To Stream Movies To Windows Mobile Phones via Live Mesh?

3:15AM John Mahoney | Can you do this, Netflix, hmm? Blockbuster wants to bring its rival streaming movie service to your phone via Microsoft’s Live Mesh platform. More »
Software

Meshpack: First Four Microsoft Live Mesh Apps Revealed

3:30AM Mark Wilson | Microsoft’s Live Mesh, a file synchronisation system across Windows XP, Vista and Mobile along with OSX, has looked fine from a technical standpoint…we’ve just been lacking some actual programs to take advantage of the infrastructure. At a recent developers conference, Microsoft announced their first four Live Mesh applications to excite the public and developers alike known as the MeshPack. More »
Computers

Microsoft Live Mesh Client For Mac Leaked, Tested

8:20AM John Mahoney | After opening up more spots in the technical beta last week, the Live Mesh folks got a bit ahead of themselves and accidentally let leak a pre-release version of the Live Mesh Mac client, which brings file and data syncing, but no remote desktop control yet, to Intel OS X machines. The download link is gone now, but the folks at jkontherun were able to grab it and put it through its paces and grab some screens. [jkontherun via Liveside] More »
Online

Microsoft Opens Up More Spots in Live Mesh Beta Preview

6:25AM John Mahoney | If you’ve been reading all about the Mobile Me rollout with scorn for its Apple-ness, Microsoft just opened up more preview slots for its Live Mesh service that similarly syncs files and info across all of your devices in the cloud (including Macs–later). While the service can be a bit hard to parse at times, its breadth of device coverage and open API look promising. Jump in with your Windows Live account now before spots run out. [Live Mesh via All About Microsoft] More »
Software

Microsoft Live Mesh Device Syncing Hub Goes Private Beta

7:21PM Gizmodo US Edition | Microsoft’s Live Mesh is designed to share data between all your computing devices using the net as a hub, and it’s just gone private beta. So about 10,000 of you have the opportunity to join up to this “cloud computing” beta, and see how easy it is to port data between your mobile phone, PDA, work computer, home PC — basically any device that supports Windows. More »