Bing just released their new-version toolbar that they’re calling the Bing Bar, and as usual, even before installing it, as with any toolbar we had an instant negative reaction.  Toolbars, yuck.  They’re slow, they take up valuable real estate, and …

Well, ok, maybe Matt Cutts of Google won’t be too excited about this, after all.  But Bing has just released a new “Bing Bar” anyway.

The new toolbar, available here, adds some nice new features, including Facebook integration, …

Along with the whirlwind of news around a Nokia / Microsoft Windows Phone partnership, this week’s Mobile World Congress brought us a little more news about upcoming releases for Windows Phone.  So we know a little more about what we’ll …

Along with all the news about Microsoft and Nokia, we’ve been seeing quite a few news items go by that seem to show interest for the Windows Phone developer platform, and interest in Windows Phone apps is picking up.

First …

Ahh, we love PR-speak.  After a number of sites picked up on Paul Thurrott’s posting that he’s hearing that “the Zune brand is on the way out”, Microsoft responded, first through Twitter:

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…and then through …

Microsoft today has launched four new corporate blogs, one each for the four tech hotspots in the US (and beyond the “why US only?” questions, we would add “What about Seattle/Redmond?”).  According to the official “Microsoft Blog” on Technet, the …

We told you about Paul Thurrott’s early mentions about a possible Zune rebrand, and then in a post titled “Questions Remain in the wake of a Microsoft / Nokia Partnership”, Thurrott drops more hints:

And what about Zune?

If you are or were a fan of Windows Home Server, you know that late last year a decision was made to remove the “Drive Extender” technology from Windows Home Server “Vail” (now known as Windows Home Server 2011), a …

Today at MWC, one of the announcements about new features coming for the “Mango” release of Windows Phone later this year is integration of Twitter into the “People” Hub.  Currently, while there is a Twitter app for Windows Phone, Twitter, …

Steve Ballmer just walked off the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, after delivering a bit of news, most of it known to some degree already, about upcoming advances for Windows Phone.

After pinning down the early “NoDo”, or …