Windows Live Alerts have finally gotten a facelift and joins the rest of the Windows Live family in getting the “Wave 3” look – making it one of the last Windows Live services to make the switch ( Video Messages just made the switch a month ago, and there’s only My.Live.com , Gallery and Silverlight...

Don’t want to go on the web to read your news? How about having it delivered to you? You can now. Live Search   introduces News Alerts : Now you can have your news delivered to your inbox every day, twice a day, or just once a week. You can get top headlines , headlines for a specific area like...

Today saw the (as yet) silent release of the SDK (Software Developer Kit) for Windows Live Alerts . I haven't had a full chance to go through it yet and see what it lets you do, but if you fancy taking a peek at it, you can get to it here . I'm sure there will be an announcement on the Live Dev site...

Brandon points out that Bink is testing a new service from Windows Live Alerts , one that will let website owners replace the alert bell in the "toast" with a logo. Indeed, this looks like a cool new feature of Windows Live Alerts, which seem to be running much faster than MSN Alerts did (or...

The MSN Alerts service has now been migrated over to Windows Live, and is available from http://alerts.live.com . "Get headlines from your home town, scores and updates for your teams, stock quotes, traffic for your commute-just about anything that is happening right now. You pick it, so it's...