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Bing and Facebook announce new partnership: “Liked By Your Friends”

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Yusuf Mehdi, Online Services President Qi Lu, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced a new partnership, and brings “Liked By Your Facebook Friends” search results to Bing.  The new module will bring information from your …

Bing / Facebook announcements live webcast

As expected, Bing and Facebook are announcing a “new partnership” today, and although Bing hasn’t been in the habit of webcasting these bi-annual events (boo), Facebook is webcasting the announcements live (yay!).  Here’s the embedded player so you can follow …

Bing powers eTao.com website search in China

etao-logoWhile we wait for word coming from Mountain View on today’s Bing announcements, news is out today that Bing is powering web searches on a new e-commerce website in China.

ETao.com returns search results for forums, news, answers, web, and …

Spaces, Live Mesh beta want to remind you that they’re toast

burnt-toast-2Windows Live enthusiasts received two separate but somewhat related emails this evening, one from Windows Live Spaces, “Changes coming to your Windows Live Space”, sets out the timeline for the demise of Spaces (and how you can migrate to WordPress.com

Upcoming Bing announcements: Facebook, and a “major redesign”?

fblikebigBing is set to unveil its “fall lineup” in an event in San Francisco tomorrow (Wed Oct. 13).  A number of sites are reporting that Facebook will be an invited guest, perhaps announcing a relationship involving anonymised data coming from …

Edit your photos in WL Photo Gallery… from Zune 4.7!

Looks like the Zune guys slipped in a little bonus with the updated Zune 4.7 software, along with the more obvious links to the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace: now you can easily get to Windows Live Photo Gallery to edit …

Xbox Live coming to 9 new markets on November 10th

With Windows Phone 7 and Kinect on the way, Xbox Live is gearing up for expansion, and today announced that 9 new markets will come online for Xbox Live:

  • Russia
  • Poland
  • South Africa
  • Greece
  • Czech Republic
  • Hungary
  • Brazil
  • Colombia

Video from WindowsPhone YouTube channel: devices, ads

If you missed this morning’s Windows Phone 7 announcement from New York, it should be up on demand before too long, but after some opening remarks from Steve Ballmer and AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega, the focus quickly shifted …

Zune software coming to India, Copy/Paste coming to WP7

Among the announcements flowing out today around Windows Phone 7 is that the Zune software will soon be coming to new markets, including India.  Additionally, at the end of his demo today, Joe Belfiore announced that Copy/Paste, a feature …

Windows Phone 7 press materials

While Joe Belfiore demos Windows Phone 7 (looking very fast and smart), here’s a list of press materials now up on The Microsoft News Center:

EA Mobile to Publish Games for Windows Phone 7

Microsoft and Partners Unveil Windows