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Nokia to form Strategic Partnership with Microsoft

The links to the Nokia webcast just went live, and the word is out, Microsoft and Nokia are creating  a strategic partnership.  According to a press release just issued by Microsoft, the proposed partnership would include these points:

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IE9 Release Candidate officially released

If you haven’t downloaded it already, the IE9 RC is now officially up for grabs, with an IE9 blog post from Dean Hachamovitch explaining what’s new in the RC.  With some very nice tabbed browsing improvements (along with a …

Hitwise: Bing US search share up 21% (over 2 percentage points), Google down

Well it’s that time of the month when the US search market share reports start showing up, and first up this month is Hitwise.  They’re showing some strong increases for Bing, and a decline for Google.  Here’s the main chart, …

Windows Home Server RC Preview released with a replacement for Drive Extender (sorta)

whsEven though Windows Home Server isn’t specifically a Windows Live product, it does fall within the consumer space, we happen to like it, and we like to keep you up to date on what really is an essential component of …

Bing/Google: The Battle at Bigthink.com recapped

bigthinkSorry to say we missed all the commotion today, but apparently there was quite a donnybrook between Google and Bing, featuring a whole cast of characters, name calling, accusations, dueling blog posts, and tweet battles.  Whew,  if this keeps up, …

Microsoft posted its earnings report early (who knew?)

seleritycorpAlongside the news of Microsoft’s second quarter earnings (yup, they’re still making boatloads of money, except for Online Services – MSN and Bing – which are still losing boatloads) came an interesting little twist.  A small, ahem, “low latency, …

Docs.com gets update with multiple language support and spell checking

Microsoft FUSE Labs just rolled out an update to their Docs.com service, touted a “major backend update” with performance and stability improvements. In addition, this update also introduced support for 30 different languages (dialects) which allows users to …

OneNote Mobile for iPhone now available, what’s next?

OneNote Mobile for iPhone now available, what’s next?Microsoft released its very first official Office app for iPhone today – OneNote Mobile, which is available in the U.S. iTunes app store only and free for a limited time.

OneNote Mobile for iPhone is a note taking and organizing …

Rumour Mill: Windows Phones to get video calls, KIN Studio coming to Windows Phone Live

Neowin.net reported today that according to tips from a “key WP7 employee”, the Windows Phone platform may be getting video chat capabilities much like Apple’s FaceTime. According to Neowin, the application is expected to be bundled into Microsoft’s Live services …

Project Emporia available for Windows Phone 7

We first told you about Fuse Labs Project Emporia back in November and now Project Emporia is already available for Windows Phone 7 via the marketplace.
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This sounds like a must-have app to me, well if you want to …