Yesterday, in order to promote the ability, rolled out last week, for you to be able to set your own background image on the www.google.com home page, Google turned on the feature internationally for a 24 hour period, according to …

With the FIFA World Cup South Africa right around the corner, Bing can not escape on doing something for all the Soccer fans.

They are kicking off by integrating World Cup information, live scores of matches, group standings etc. into …

Spent a good part of the day today at SMX Advanced, first at the keynote/”fireside chat” with Yusuf Mehdi and Danny Sullivan, and then in a session on Bing’s upcoming new Webmaster Tools.  Just as we were writing …

At SMX Advanced in Seattle this morning, Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi demoed a new “social” vertical coming to Bing, set to go live “within the hour”.  The new page features real time results from Twitter and Facebook, filtered …

During the keynote and a Windows Phone 7 session at TechEd North America 2010, Microsoft showed off a newer build of Windows Phone 7. Long Zheng has put up some images of this new build. He notes that the …

We told you Office Web Apps went live this week. But what we didn’t write about yet is that yesterday a part of the Office family that was missing got added: OneNote. Yes, that’s right there’s also a OneNote …

Remember the Bing Earth Day Homepage student Contest? The contest was a great success, contest participants (all you voters) made donations totaling more than $110K towards classroom projects on DonorsChoose.org.

People requested and redeemed the $5 donation codes …

Since yesterday you can get a Hotmail.nl address in the Netherlands.

Now we were wondering, are you getting such localized Hotmail addies in your country too? If not, would you like there to be? Let us know in the comments …

The news just never stops does it? This time we’ve got some news for Windows Phone Developers. The Windows Phone Marketplace policies have changed! They’ve been changed to attract a wider range of developers, from large software companies to …

We mentioned earlier today that Bing is now a search option on iPhone, but the early news didn’t include mention that Bing is now also an option on Safari, the default browser on the Mac (you can get the latest …