April, 2011

Welcome to MIX 2011 Liveblog

Welcome to Las Vegas! We’re happy to be bringing you our group liveblog once again, featuring Long Zheng, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Rafael Rivera, Paul Thurrott, Bob Stein, and yours truly. Feel free to join in, you can follow …

Microsoft launches Bing Business Portal

Microsoft just launched their new Bing Business Portal beta today, replacing the old Bing Local Listing Center, which allow business owners to create and manage their local business listings on Bing, all for free. With Bing Business Portal, business owners …

Miyowa to bring “official” Windows Live Messenger app onto Android Market

According to reports from French website Clubic.com, it appears that Microsoft is set to launch its first officially-endorsed Windows Live Messenger client onto the Android Market next Monday April 11th. Interestingly, unlike its iOS counterpart, this app is …

Mix 2011: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone, IE9, HTML5, and a liveblog!

Microsoft’s web developer conference, Mix, is upon us again and we’ll be winging our way to Las Vegas to bring you all the latest.  Included in this year’s Mix are keynotes by Scott Guthrie, with news of Silverlight 5 …

Chris Pirillo geeks out over the Bing iPad app

This week, to lots of good press, Bing released an app for the iPad, and today uber-geek Chris Pirillo posted a YouTube video where, well, he can’t stop gushing about Bing, the app, and how with this app, Microsoft …

Bing HTML5: still here, and captured on video

Getting both positive and “not yet” reports on Bing HTML5, and as luck would have it Bing HTML5 is still here, for the moment.

Some of our commenters (the ones who are seeing Bing HTML5) had the same first reactions …

Bing turns on HTML5 UI

After months of waiting and a few “peeks”, it looks like Bing has finally turned on the HTML5 version of its “decision engine.  We’ve heard some rumblings about it being ready to go, but tonight for the first time …

Windows Phone owners: “keep waiting” says Microsoft, users unhappy

homebrewAnother blog post on the Windows Phone blog, another deluge of unhappy responses.  Eric Hautala posted yesterday, imploring Windows Phone users not to resort to “home brew” solutions, and to keep waiting until your phone is officially updated.  …

Bing releases iPad app

Another release from Bing today, this time an app for Apple’s iPad.  It’s getting lots of good press from sites like 9 to 5 Mac, who call the app “amazing”.  Featuring lots of big beautiful images, an emphasis …

Bing: Streetside for Germany, and the return of the Like button

Little bits of Bing news popping up all over: first up is news via Search Engine Land that Bing Maps is about to fire up its Streetside photo cars in Germany.  A recent court case in Germany ruled in favor …