Bing launches Visual Search at TechCrunch 50

Today at the TechCrunch 50 conference, Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi announced a new feature for Bing: Visual Search.

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As of this writing, the new search isn’t available yet, but is supposed to be live in beta today

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 14th, 2009 at 8:08 pm

m.LiveSide.net on MoFuse Premium: Mo Betta

mfp_logo We’ve been using MoFuse to power our mobile experience for about a year now, and have been very pleased with the service.  Basically MoFuse takes our RSS feed, optimizes it for mobile on a number of devices, and takes care …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 13th, 2009 at 7:33 am

Another LiveSide poll, do you check tech news on mobile?

While we’re working through getting our new mobile experience at m.liveside.net (not done yet, but getting there) together, we thought it might make a good topic for a poll.  Thanks for responding to our first poll, on how you check your

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 13th, 2009 at 5:58 am

Windows Live Wave 4: M1 released; Hotmail changes

We know Wave 4 is coming, and now thanks to WindowsLiveHelp.com, we know at least a few of the changes coming (here already?) to Hotmail.  We don’t appear to be seeing any of them here, yet, do you?

In …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
September 12th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Thai language translation for Bing Translator (and for LiveSide!)

Just saw a tweet that Bing Translator now supports the Thai language, and sure enough, a quick check on our Translator webpage add-in box shows that Thai is at the bottom of our list:

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That brings the number of languages …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 12th, 2009 at 8:30 am

Windows Live Calendar updated, Events discontinued

Windows_Live_Calendar_logo Last week, on September 3, 2009, Windows Live Events was officially “retired” and users will no longer be able to create new events using this service, and users are encouraged to download all the files and photos associated with an …

By damaster in Featured News
September 11th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

Bing flavored #koolaid at the company meeting

Microsoft held its annual company meeting earlier today (Wed Sept 10) at SafeCo Field (where the Mariners play major league baseball), and from the tweets and various snippets of posts that filtered out of the stadium seemed to cast Bing …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 11th, 2009 at 8:57 am

Windows Live Photos Improvements

As the number of megapixels in cameras increases, and making panorama pictures has been made easy with Windows Live Photo Gallery, it was time for Windows Live Photos to follow suit. Today a new release is being rolled out

By Sunshine in Featured News
September 10th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

Laptop Hunters, Behind The Scenes

Another “Laptop hunters” video appeared. No, not another one looking for a laptop, this time it’s a behind the scenes one.

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Enjoy!

Via: The Microsoft Blog

By Sunshine in News
September 10th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

Using Windows Live: Mail

windows-live-mail-logo Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, the unofficial demarcation between summer and vacation time and fall.  School is starting again all over, football season is just beginning, and traditionally Microsoft gets back from employees gone on summer vacation …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 9th, 2009 at 7:22 am