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Announcing The Messenger Web Toolkit Interactive SDK!

We already told you about the Live Messenger Web Toolkit and accompanying site http://messenger.mslivelabs.com/.

Also on this site is the Interactive SDK: 
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This Interactive SDK makes starting out with the Messenger Web Toolkit even easier for developers. To get …

Carol Bartz, CEO Of Yahoo!, Willing To Sell Search For “Boatloads Of Money”

In an entertaining, slightly off color, and by some accounts inspiring performance at D: the All Things Digital conference, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz left the door open for a search deal.  That deal would have to be made …

LiveSide registration temporarily unavailable, sorry

We’re having a little issue currently with our user registration as some jokers try to take advantage of our generous registration policies.  While we continue to figure out how to best deal with the problem (and clear out the hundreds …

Live Writer for Windows Mobile?

Twitter has been abuzz the last 48 hours about a new project that appeared on CodePlex: Windows Live Writer for Windows Mobile. This sounds very promising, and looks like quite a good little project (albeit a slightly iffy UI). …

Some more on Bing.com – that confusing trademark will soon become Blinko

Microsoft acquired Bing.com in March, and has a network all set up:

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but as we reported last week, there’s that pesky little US Patent and Trademark Office to get around.  The problem is with Bing Mobile, which is …

What does Microsoft have in store for E3?

E3 is one short week away, and speculation is rampant as to what is going to be announced.

If the initial buzz is any indication, between their June 1st press briefing and their booth, Microsoft should have a strong showing …

Live Search Translator new feature: Auto-Detect your language

Translator logo It seems like Live Search Translator just got updated with a new feature – the ability to automatically detect the language you wish to translate!

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In the screenshot above, I simply typed “http://www.livesino.net” into the text box and Live Search …

Windows Live Alerts gets the Wave 3 look…finally!

Windows Live Alerts have finally gotten a facelift and joins the rest of the Windows Live family in getting the “Wave 3” look – making it one of the last Windows Live services to make the switch (Video Messages

US Trademark Office rejects Bing – “likelihood of confusion”

In a document filed this morning and mailed to Microsoft, the US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Microsoft’s filing of “Bing” as a trademark name for “computer search engine software; graphical user interface software, namely, toolbar software for use …

Hotmail shuts down mobile browser access, for now

Hotmail has shut down access to mail through a mobile browser via m.mail.live.com, a service that we told you about when it debuted in February.  According to a short post on the Hotmail team blog, the service is undergoing …