We received a tip yesterday about a very fun website, Centives.net,  run by a group of economics students at Lehigh University, who blog about interesting tidbits from around the web in their Daily Bulletins, and produce some …

Today we reported on an effort by our pals over at Hotmail to make a little hay on some of Google’s recent negative publicity, by posting 3 simple steps on how to switch from Gmail to Hotmail.  Since then, in …

This week, Google made it even more apparent that it’s either get on the Google+ bandwagon or get out of the way, announcing new privacy policies that make it far easier to share on Google+, but causing some strife …

Seems like just about everyone (except Microsoft) is talking about some aspect of a new Xbox or Xbox experience lately, from Microsoft Points to powerful new processors to lots of speculation (and, we assume, a few wild guesses) about when …

Microsoft has today announced the release a new app for Apple’s iOS platform; MSN UK for iPad. The app is divided into the categories found on the news portal and each one can all be navigated with horizontal swiping …

Back in 2009, the Hotmail guys published a blog post detailing how to get an embedded calendar for your website using Windows Live (now Hotmail) Calendar, and we’ve been using that little iframe snippet ever since.  To be honest, other …

Pocket-lint, “the largest independent gadget news and reviews site in the UK”, scored an interview at CES with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who revealed a bit of news about the the future branding for what’s now known as Bing Maps.…

Mary Jo Foley broke the news today that Microsoft legend Dave Cutler is no longer working on Azure, but has moved over to IEB (Interactive Entertainment Business), the home of Xbox and Zune, among others.

Cutler came to Microsoft in …

Microsoft UK has been sending out invitations to IT Pros across the country to encourage and educate IT Pros about moving off IE6. This campaign continues work done by Microsoft internationally to move users off IE6 and on to more …

In a press release today, Yahoo! announced the resignation from the Board of Directors and “all other positions with the company”, effective today.  Here’s Yang’s statement:

"My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of