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MSN Unsigned: An Uninspiring Attempt to Woo Indie Musicians
The Web has been huge for unsigned musicians. Many artists have leveraged social networking tools and music discovery services to find record deals, while others have built large online fan bases. Loo ....... read more
19 hours ago
What to do After Selling Your Startup to microsoft? Sell Toilet Paper and Trash Bags
In 2007, microsoft acquired Jellyfish, a social search engine that ultimately became the Live Search Cashback program. The company?s founders ? Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire ? have since moved on, an ....... read more
20 days ago
Steve Ballmer: Another Yahoo Bid? No Way.
The entire microsoft-Yahoo saga is now starting to look really sad for Yahoo. After Jerry Yangs statement yesterday that Yahoo is suddenly interested in being acquired by microsoft, Steve Ballmer now ....... read more
Fri,
07 Nov 2008
The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by microsoft
Talk about a 180. Yahoos CEO Jerry Yang spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco; he and his company are tired, battered and bruised. But his message is now - suddenly, and amazingly - clear: Yah ....... read more
Thu,
06 Nov 2008
Eat That, Street View: Photosynth Comes to Live Maps
Although Google Maps and Google Earth are often getting all the attention, the truth is that microsofts Live Maps is a great product as well. Now, it also has a completely unique feature to brag abou ....... read more
Thu,
06 Nov 2008
Windows 7 Needs to Be the Netbook of Operating Systems
Ever had the feeling that you know exactly where some technology needs to be heading, but youre not sure that the major corporations behind it will realize it because theyre too tangled in their own ....... read more
Wed,
29 Oct 2008
Big Three Agree on Guidelines for Countries Who Restrict Human Rights
microsoft, Yahoo and Google have agreed in general on how they plan to do business in countries such as China or Northern Korea, which are known to restrict free speech and other human rights. Don ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Yahoo in the Hands of Developers
Many people are waiting for the death of Yahoo. Regardless of the impending layoffs and restructuring, Yahoo is still fighting for the future.
The big question for Yahoo is what future does it have? ....... read more
Mon,
20 Oct 2008
Game Sales or Ads: Developers Need to Choose
We live in a world where we are surrounded almost nonstop from the time we wake up until the time we go to sleep by advertising. From the magazines we read to the searches we do on the Web, advertisin ....... read more
Thu,
09 Oct 2008
Six Ways to Improve Facebook Search
Facebook rolled out microsoft Live Search today as an integrated part of its search. It gives the exact same results as you would get on Live.com, but in generic Facebook layout.
Sorry Facebook, that ....... read more
Tue,
07 Oct 2008
Facebook Rolls Out microsoft Live Search
Facebook has just rolled out its implementation of microsoft Live Search, which allows members of the social network to search the Web without leaving the site.
The implementation is fairly straightf ....... read more
Tue,
07 Oct 2008
Live Search Cashback Increases in Popularity During Economic Downturn
Hitwise has noticed a trend over the last few weeks in the growing popularity of Live Search Cashback. For those unfamiliar with the service, Live Search Cashback helps users get cash back from shoppi ....... read more
Fri,
03 Oct 2008
Steve Ballmer Admits His Head is in the Clouds (video)
Yesterday, microsoft CEO Steve Developers Ballmer revealed that Windows is working on a cloud-based operating system while Amazon is now offering Windows as an available server environment through i ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
microsoft?s Windows Cloud Smells Funny
Im not a big fan of reaching for conclusions and unjustified criticism when it comes to tech journalism, because I see it way too often. But although I have no solid data to confirm it, I cant help ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
microsoft SearchPerks to Reward Users for Using Live Search
microsoft is working to innovate its search business model in one clearly visible way: perks. Perks, perks, and more perks. This time it?s about SearchPerks.
It was in late May when microsoft first ....... read more
Wed,
01 Oct 2008
microsoft?s Crummy Monday: No Zune or Xbox Live for 24+ Hours
How will you survive the outage? Two outages, in fact. microsoft?s Zune Marketplace and Xbox Live together. For up to 24 hours. Maybe as long as 48 hours for all things Zune. Sounds like a lot of dow ....... read more
Sat,
27 Sep 2008
Windows 7 On A Diet - Thank Goodness
With each successive release of the Windows operating system it has gotten bigger and bigger. While it doesnt help that it has to keep supporting so much legacy stuff from previous versions it has al ....... read more
Tue,
23 Sep 2008
Google-Yahoo Might be OK for Yahoo, but What About Everybody Else?
As we rehash the Google-Yahoo story once more in light of the companies? insistence to press forward into a non-exclusive search advertising arrangement - for which they have drawn considerable ire fo ....... read more
Sun,
21 Sep 2008
microsoft Should Never Have Listened To Tech Bloggers
The tech blogosphere is all a buzz today with the assumed demise of the travelling Bill and Jerry show that was a $300 million dollar attempt to make to obscenely wealthy people look like the male ver ....... read more
Fri,
19 Sep 2008
Forget Hodgman. Forget Eva Longoria. microsoft Wants YOU to Play PC.
Most everyone knows that the microsoft ads with Seinfeld didnt go over very well with the blog world, so theyve started an Im a PC” campaign. And theyve also launched an interesting online ....... read more
Fri,
19 Sep 2008