February, 2011

IE9 Release Candidate available now

A quick heads up that as usual, with an announcement due later this morning on the availability  of IE9 RC at an event in San Francisco, the download links have gone live early.  Tom Warren at WinRumors.com has more, …

Nokia and WP7: the rumor mill heats up

This whole Windows Phone to Nokia thing is gaining some traction, as more reports are coming out linking the new Microsoft mobile OS to Nokia, who even as their platform “burns”, still control much of the market share worldwide for …

Hey, Bing has a Like Button!

We just fired up Bing to look for a Nokia logo for our last post, and noticed what we think is something new on the Bing home page, a Facebook Like Button:

bing-like

The button allows you to “Like” the day’s …

Reports: Meego is out, is WP7 in at Nokia?

Nokia-LogoReuters is reporting a rather cryptic report today that two of its sources are saying that Nokia has ended development of the first Meego powered Nokia phone before it even launched. Nokia has refused comment on the report, and the …

Reading the WP7 update tea leaves: no new apps, Zune update

While we still have no official idea of when we’ll see the first Windows Phone 7 update, we’ve noticed a couple of hopeful developments, which may or may not signal an impending Windows Phone update.

First, for the past two …

Hitwise: Bing US search share up 21% (over 2 percentage points), Google down

Well it’s that time of the month when the US search market share reports start showing up, and first up this month is Hitwise.  They’re showing some strong increases for Bing, and a decline for Google.  Here’s the main chart, …

UK website promotes Bing

Been seeing a lot of positive reaction to a new website from the UK that promotes Bing.  The site, www.thisbeautifulthing.co.uk, in all its full Flash glory, walks us through a number of the more popular (and in this promotion, …

Bing vs. Google, some (final?) thoughts: What was Matt Cutts thinking?

All week we’ve been sorting through the many many blog posts, videos, and reports on the can of worms that Matt Cutts and the engineers at Google opened up last Monday when they went to Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan …

Will MIX 11 make Windows Phone 7 developers happy?

WMPowerUser.com just posted a transcript of an interview done with Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7 platform at Microsoft. While nothing specific was announced (as expected), Brandon Watson pointed developers to wait for the MIX 11 …

Bing Box for site owners to be discontinued on April 4

Live Search BoxThe Bing Developer team recently posted on their blog announcing that the "Bing Box" functionality on bing.com/siteowner will be discontinued on April 4, 2011. Websites that attempt to query the Bing Box will be redirected to a 404 page. Rather, …