Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot

Over at meraTechPort, Vasudev reports the launch of the Windows Live Messenger Translation Bot:

Microsoft Research Machine Translation team has come out with an IM Translation Bot. MTBot prototype project which made it possible to combine machine translation technology

By Sunshine in News
February 15th, 2008 at 2:11 am

Crawler Improvements for Live Search Announced

 Live Search Webmaster Center Blog announced the following updates:

Today we’re pleased to announce several improvements in the crawler for Live Search that should significantly improve the efficiency with which we crawl and index your web sites. We are

By Sunshine in News
February 15th, 2008 at 12:46 am

Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google – Instant Messaging

Time to take a closer look at IM.

IMcomparison

Here we can see that worldwide MSN-Windows Live Messenger is taking a big lead, whereas Yahoo! Messenger is taking the lead in the U.S. Google is way behind.

Some features compared:

Instant
By Sunshine in News
February 14th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

New York City Transit Adopts Virtual Earth for Trip Planner Public Web Site

Virtual Earth For Government reports that New York City Transit has adopted Virtual Earth for their public trip planner:

Arguably the largest transit in the world, New York City Transit, today announced that it has released a new version of

By Sunshine in News
February 13th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Traffic Count in Windows Live Spaces: try StatCounter

Over at The UsefulTechnology Blog an article appeared on StatCounter. Besides putting a counter up on a "regular" Website you can also put one up at your Live Space with StatCounter.

To add StatCounter to your Windows Live Space,

By Sunshine in News
February 13th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

More from Mobile Congress 2008: Windows Live Mobile Services in Latin America extended; Windows Live Mobile Developer Program; mobile advertising progress

Over at his blog, Phil Holden wrote a Mobile World Congress 2008 update. First he updates us on the expansion of Windows Live Mobile services in Latin America:

The first thing we have is a nice endorsement of

By Sunshine in News
February 12th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

MSFT-YHOO: Why this deal makes sense for Microsoft

As Microsoft and Yahoo! continue to entertain us with what is becoming great high theatre, we’ve been hearing a couple of themes repeated over and over by the bloggers and journalists.  First, that this acquisition is some kind of desperate …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
February 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Are you receiving password reset emails? Let the email support team know

When we wrote about Omar Shahine’s hijacked email account last night, we showed it around a little and heard of some problems regarding password reset emails.  Apparently some users are receiving emails informing them that there has been a request …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
February 12th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Yahoo! snags exclusive T-Mobile search rights in Europe

yahoopressroom Hoo boy another press release (via BetaNews)! This time it’s Yahoo! announcing an exclusive deal with T-Mobile in Europe to use Yahoo! oneSearch as its exclusive search provider.  While of course this fits into the realm of Windows Live …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 12th, 2008 at 3:14 am

Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!

Just now Yahoo! posted the following Press Release:

Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 11, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of

By Sunshine in Featured News
February 11th, 2008 at 11:52 pm