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Leveraging the power of Microsoft… for Pizza!

047d1d4aa748d2936b4956445b59cc06We 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 …

Switching to Hotmail: what’s stopping you?

ms-hotmail-logoToday 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 …

A shot across the bow? Microsoft’s “3 easy steps” to switch from Gmail to Hotmail

ms-hotmail-logoThis 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

Xbox rumors everywhere

xbox720_logo1_1Seems 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 …

A Calendar update for LiveSide (thanks to MSDN) just in time for a big year of Microsoft news

embedsubscribeBack 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 …

Bing Maps to carry the Nokia brand

bingmapsPocket-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.

Whoa, that’s a superstar team at IEB (Xbox), what the heck are they building?

cutler-avatarMary 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 …

Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo!–will we learn the fate of Microsoft’s Bing-Yahoo! alliance soon?

yahooIn 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

Can college students learn to collaborate using SkyDrive?

Early last November, Mike Torres and Omar Shahine, in a post on designing cloud storage services (read: SkyDrive), posted some telling statistics:

  • Today, less than 10% of college students consider using SkyDrive to access or share docs
  • Overwhelmingly, when students

An Xbox for the rest of us?

kinectA number of rumors have surfaced over the past few months about a next generation Xbox, and about Microsoft’s push into the living room using the popular gaming, and now entertainment system.  In fact, a few months ago we speculated