I’m sitting here at Advance08, at Microsoft in Redmond, where Senior Vice President for Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Brian McAndrews made a couple of announcements today. In addition to announcing the rebranding of Microsoft’s various advertising services to “Microsoft Advertising”, …
Advance08 Advertising coming to Windows Live for Mobile, Live Search for Mobile
New Windows Live Mobile homepage launches into beta
A new Windows Live Mobile homepage has just been launched into beta over at http://mhome.live.com. Thought its just the first milestone, the new page features several nifty features. These include:
- The “What’s new” summary, showing recent updates made by
New Live Search: Farecast – Search And Book Your Flight
In April, Microsoft acquired the award-winning travel web site Farecast. Today the new site launched! Live Search Farecast helps you find the lowest airfares by predicting when is the best time to buy, so you can time your purchase for …
Live Mesh – Service Update
Live Mesh has received a Service update which fixes several bugs, you will be notified to update automatically. Most notable one, for most anyway are the language ones:
…· Fixed date format and removed region requirement. You still need to
Live Maps Collections Mobile – Create a collection and add it to your phone
With the recent update of Live Search for Mobile comes the ability to access collections on your mobile device. The feature comes with a few preloaded collections, and you can search through items collected by others, but it becomes much …
MSFT-YHOO: This time, an “alternative” to just buy search
In the latest twist on the Microsoft-Yahoo! soap opera, Microsoft issued a statement today, announcing that they were back in the game, but this time looking to make a deal for “an alternative that would involve a transaction with …
Live Spaces Vision – get blog updates in (near) real-time
So many blogs, so little time. There are over 112 million blogs on the Internet! How do you keep up? You can take Live Spaces Vision for a spin! Yea really, a spin! Beware not to get dizzy while this …
Personalized page moved to http://My.Live.com
Your personalized page has moved from Live.com, which is now Live Search Home page, to http://my.live.com
You can still reach your personalized page from live.com, just click Personalized page at bottom right.
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