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Windows Mobile #2 Smartphone OS in US: ComScore

You might not tell it from listening to all the buzz about the iPhone, but according to numbers from a February 2009 comScore survey of US smartphone users over the age of 13, Windows Mobile is the #2 OS in …

A note on some LiveSide housekeeping

We’ve been doing a little spring cleaning here at LiveSide, and just wanted to note a couple of things:

RSS

Our RSS feed, from Feedburner, is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/liveside.  Feedburner (owned by Google) has changed their address a couple of times …

NewCloudApp() Azure Developer Contest: Win $5000

azure-logo_2 Just announced today, NewCloudApp(), The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge, offers US based Azure developers a couple of chances to win exposure via Azure.com and major Microsoft events, Channel 9, the Structure Azure conference, and a $5000 Visa Gift …

Sheila the Laptop Hunter: Only 2gb ram for $2k? – meh

Our friend Imran Hussain has spotted the latest Laptop Hunter ad, this time featuring Sheila the videographer:

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Sheila ends up with an HP HDX 16t, after passing on a $2000 Mac with a classic shrug.  …

Microsoft’s new free anti-malware solution gets closer: a new name for Morro?

El Morro, in San Juan, Puerto Rico Last year Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows Live OneCare, and turn instead to develop a new, free security product, code named Morro.  We’ve heard that Morro has already been in limited alpha testing, that it’s …

Live Search turns off search crawler, starts SEM blog series

bot Search Engine Roundtable has been following a thread at WebMaster World concerning some disturbing behavior from MSNbot, the crawler Live Search uses to find and index information on the web.  As of last night (April 28), the offending “feature” …

Tellme coming soon to Windows Mobile 6.5

tellmelogo Microsoft bought Tellme back in March of 2007, and released an app for Blackberry last year, so we’ve been expecting to hear the news that came out today, that Tellme will be available for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones this …

More Tough Love: LiveSide interviews Danny Sullivan about Live Search

smxadvancedlogo Danny Sullivan, Editor in Chief of Search Engine Land, conference organizer for Search Marketing Expos and Search Marketing Now, and all around search guru, took some time with us today to talk about Live Search, in conjunction with the …

Live Mesh updated for Mobile, Mac, Live Desktop

livemeshblog A new service update is now available for Live Mesh Mac, Mobile, and Live Mesh Desktop has been updated as well, according to a post on the Live Mesh team blog.

The release “continues to tune performance” and has …

Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock

A post on a Neowin forum crossed our path this weekend (thanks for the tip, CalumJR!): apparently the poster was hanging out at Bldg 88 (which does house parts of Live Search), and spotted a “Countdown to Kumo” clock on …