To be honest, when I saw the latest Live Search home page image this morning, my only thought was “what a beautiful animal”.
Well apparently Snow Leopard means a little something to more than just the Girl Scouts of Kyrgyzstan…
Reminder: MSN Groups closing on Monday, February 23
In October we reported that MSN Groups would be closed. The original plan was to close MSN Groups on February 21, but that has been extended to February 23. The team just posted a reminder that you’ll need to …
My Phone: Failure to sign in the application on the phone issue addressed
There have been reports of My Phone users not being able to successfully sign in on the phone, even when they received a confirmation that their account was activated. The My Phone team has addressed this issue and posted the …
QnA moves from Live Search to MSN
In an attempt to better align products and sites focused on content and community, QnA moved from Live Search to MSN. Leader of the MSN QnA team will be Kristy:
…Kristy
Hello! I’m Kristy and I’m excited to be
Live Search gains share (of French sites, to 2.29%) Woohoo!
Continuing our look at non US-Centric numbers, a new report from French internet audience measurement company AT Internet caught our eye:
These numbers, a cross section of 96,965 reporting websites, all “French speaking”, show for one thing just how dominant …
Marketing Windows Mobile to the world (sorry, tech bubble)
It’s easy to forget sometimes (especially living 40 miles from Redmond, like I do) that the whole world doesn’t work, or live, quite the way you think it would from reading Techmeme headlines. In a number of markets Windows Live …
Andy Lees at the Mobile World Conference press conference
Windows Mobile 6.5 demo:
- Simple lock screen with clock, appointments, and notifications
- Same IE engine for PC and phone
- Full Flash support
- All Windows phones will have Windows Start button
- Start screen icons are configurable
- New home screen
My Phone…
Notes on Steve Ballmer’s press conference
Innovation is important in this global economic downturn
Smartphones will soon comprise 50% of worldwide mobile phones
Windows is the single platform for PC and mobile
Today we’re calling them simply “Windows Phones”
Today we’re announcing 3 things:
- Windows Mobile
See, we told you Windows Live was globally important!
One more for today, to round out our Windows Mobile/Windows Live coverage, this one thanks to a tweet from Loke Uei via Eileen Brown
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😉…
LiveSide Jobs board: PMX team looking for a Director of Brand Marketing
(all emphasis mine)
Just came across this job posting on HireDiversity.com for a Director of Brand Marketing for the Premium Mobile Experiences team (and no, we’re not looking for work – looking to avoid it, more like). This “rare and …
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