The Connected Home Blog now offers Live Alerts!

You might notice that there is a new button lurking in the subscribe section to the right of the page. We are now able to offer Windows Live alerts to users when new information is posted on TCHB.
 
Simply click the button and sign in if you have a Windows Live account (if you don’t I [...]

Free & Legal P2P service Qtrax launches - almost

 
As of Midnight 28th January EST or 5 in the morning here in the UK on the 29th January, the Qtrax beta became available for download from http://www.qtrax.com/ . This new service promised free downloads via a legal peer to peer network funded by advertising. Qtrack announced that they had signed deals with all [...]

Connect Beta Site - Featuring Terry Walsh

Not quite sure how I stumbled across this but as I was heading for Microsoft Connect to download the new beta of Live Messenger 9.0 (yes, I got accepted on to the beta, but can’t really share anything yet) and I ended up at https://connectbeta.microsoft.com which seems to be  a Microsoft Connect Beta page, nothing [...]

Windows Live Messenger 9.0 goes in to early beta

A selection of beta testers in the Microsoft Community have been invited to participate in the beta of Live Messenger 9.0. Not sure at present if this is open to everyone to apply to or if an invitation is required even to apply.
My application was filed today although this is not to say that i [...]

On the verge of something exciting

It seems that at midnight tonight (GMT) something big is about to happen in the world of the connected home. Or three things as it seems.

The first full release of the Windows Live Suite is due to go live as reported yesterday
@live.com domains are due to become available to register for use with Hotmail and Live [...]