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More on the Bing Spring update

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 …

Bing announces new Social vertical

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 …

Bing: on iPhone, on Safari, … and at SMX Advanced

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 …

LiveSide gets a new logo (just in time for Wave 4!)

Seems like everyone and his sister had big announcements today, and right here in the middle of it all we decided to go ahead and unveil our new logo:

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We really want to thank all of you for taking the …

It’s official, Office Web Apps are Live!

We just told you about the Wave 4 web services going live, and now sure enough Jason Moore has posted on Inside Windows Live “officially” announcing the availability of Office Web Apps on SkyDrive in the US, UK, Canada, and …

Wave 4 Web services go live!

At least some of the new Wave 4 web services are now live, both here in the US and in Australia, at least:

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Apparently Hotmail hasn’t made the switch yet, but you should be able to get to Wave 4 …

News from all over: Bing on iPhone, Pivot, more

Lots of conferences underway at the moment, with tidbits of news coming from all over the map.  Here’s a quick round-up:

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The Steve Jobs Show opened things up this morning in San Francisco, complete with cool news about the …

Help us choose a new LiveSide logo: part deux

Dana and Tony over at IDesignYourLogo.com have a good little thing going: they’re designing a logo a day for a year, with each day costing $2 more than the day before.  We thought it sounded like fun, and signed up.  …

Live Sync FAQ for Live Mesh users (it lives!)

On Friday, we received a nice tip from Robert McLaws about a post on the Live Mesh MSDN blog (which hadn’t had an update since last October), entitled “Windows Live Sync beta: FAQ if you used Live Mesh …

Live Sync 2011: Improved! With Less Storage!

In another variation on the confusing naming theme that has become a trademark of Windows Live, Windows Live Wave 4 (or Windows Live 2011, if you prefer) introduces a newly revamped Live Mesh, which is replacing the current Live Sync …