2011

Bing dropping Beta tags?

LiveSide users, coming from all around the world, are quick to point out to us their pain when Microsoft and especially Bing features are released for US only markets, so hopefully here’s some encouraging news.  It looks like at least …

Bing HTML5 preview to coincide with IE9 launch?

Back in September 2010, Microsoft revealed to the world the first beta of Internet Explorer 9, and along with it they demoed a version of Bing running HTML5-enabled code. While they promised that the HTML5-enabled version of Bing will …

Early build of Windows 8 screenshots leaked – shows Windows Live ID integration

Remember last year when we revealed a few slides on Windows 8 which showed that Microsoft’s next operating system might be getting cloud-based identity and roaming settings? It appears that the screenshots of an early build of Windows 8 that …

Kayak partners with Bing: drinks kool-aid

kayakBing and Kayak, the “travel search engine” have announced a partnership today, similar to partnerships Bing has established with Facebook, Twitter, and Wolfram Alfa. From an email to LiveSide.net promoting the new partnership:
 
Today, Bing Travel and KAYAK

Miss Australia Erin McNaught featured in Windows Live ads

Our friend Long Zheng from iStartedSomething.com just posted a series of Australian advertisements for Windows 7 and Windows Live – featuring the winner of Miss Australia 2006 Erin McNaught. Check out the videos below of the latest advertisement campaign from …

Bing partners with DealMap to bring Groupon, LivingSocial, more deals to Bing and m.bing.com

Bing is announcing today a partnership with Dealmap to bring offers from the leading online coupon providers (Groupon, LivingSocial, Restaurant.com to name a few) directly into Bing via desktop search or m.bing.com via HTML5 compatible phones (iPhone or Android, but …

Samsung Windows Phone 7 Update resumed

Last night Microsoft announced the updates to Samsung phones are resuming:

Starting today, we plan to resume rolling out the February update to Samsung phones. Meanwhile, we’re continuing to dispatch the update to other Windows Phone models. As has been

Bing sows seeds with Farmville ad, reaps 400,000 fans in one day

FarmVille_logo(Update) Sorry to report that we got a bit fooled by someone retweeting this info – it did happen, but a year ago.  Our mistake!

Adweek is reporting that a single advertisement placed on Farmville netted the upstart search engine …

Don’t forget to update your Spaces blog to WordPress.com – only two weeks left then *poof*

If you’ve been following Windows Live at all, you knew, like us, that there wasn’t much hope for Windows Live Spaces, and we were genuinely relieved when we found out that Windows Live had worked out an agreement with …

Windows Live UK: Cloud vs. Claude

Looks like we’re seeing Microsoft ramp up its advertising efforts across the board and around the globe: Windows Phone has taken over Times Square, the Microsoft Store has a new look, and in the UK, a new campaign …