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Microsoft to offer Windows Live Services to Hutch

Hutchison Essar and Microsoft Corp. have announced a broad scale mobile services alliance in India. The two companies have agreed in principle to work together to provide mobile search and other key Windows Live services to Hutch's subscriber base of …

LiveSide adds OPML Lists

We've created a set of lists of some of the blogs we follow here at LiveSide, something we had on the old site and just haven't had the time to update.

This time, though, you can visit the blog, subscribe …

Windows Live Product Upload launches into beta

Over the weekend Windows Live Product Upload (codename Agora) has launched into beta at http://productupload.live.com. Designed to allow internet based retailers to add catalogs of their available products to the Live Product Search database, Product Upload guarantees their inclusion in …

Virtual Earth goes 3D

Today sees a Virtual Earth update that adds a wealth of new features to Windows Live Local (local.live.com). Changes include:
  • 3D representations of 15 major US cities (San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, Los Angeles, CA,

Virtual Earth update – In world advertising

Today's Virtual Earth update sees the inclusion of in-world advertising, powered by Microsoft's acquisition earlier this year of Massive Inc. Though Massive's technology is mainly used to include advertising in games, usually from large corporations, this horizontal step into Windows

Scan Vista with Windows Live Safety Scanner beta

Now available from the free online safety scanner from Windows Live OneCare – a Vista version.  You can try it out here if you’re on the Vista beta.

From the Windows Live Safety Center blog

MSN Music to shut down music downloads

In more MSN news, which-since-we-can’t-figure-out-if its-Windows Live-or-not-so-we’ll-just-go-ahead-and-report-on-it, MSN Music will stop selling downloads on the music.msn.com site on November 14, and will redirect sales to either the Zune Marketplace web site or to RealNetworks’ Rhapsody site, according to CNET.…

November 7th – “Get ready for a New Dimension in Search”

The live.com homepage is today displaying a teaser message, confirming an earlier post that VirtualEarth/Windows Live Local will be experiencing a major update on November 7th. The message reads (emphasis is mine):

"Get ready for a new dimension in search…November 7th"

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Add Windows Live Search to your website

Check out the siteowner page for details on how to add either a “Basic” search box that adds a Windows Live Search box to your page with html, and sends search results to the Windows Live Search page,  or an …

Virtual Earth update next week

From the Virtual Earth (Mappoint) blog:

Please be advised that we will release a new version of the Virtual Earth Map Control on Tuesday, November 7th 2006.

Due to an upcoming marketing campaign surrounding this release we cannot