Yet more juggling between MSN and Windows Live brands. The Windows Live Wifi Suite, including the Hotspot Locator, are soon moving over to MSN. Unlike the Windows Live Hotmail rebrand, the timing is much better, with the Wifi Suite not …
Windows Live Wifi rebrands to MSN
Beta Testers Required
As you may or may not know, I have a video plugin for Windows Live Writer which will allow you to insert a video from sites such as MSN Soapbox and Youtube into your blog entries. This week I have …
MSN enter social news arena with Digg competitor – MSN Reporter
As an ongoing part of MSN’s efforts to increase the amount of user generated content on its network, the Dutch MSN team has created MSN Reporter, a social news site similar to the likes of digg and reddit. Available in beta …
Live Earth – Save Our Selves concert series announced
As we said in posts earlier this week, MSN has secured the online distribution rights to a new global concert event: Live Earth. From the press release:
…SOS is designed to trigger a global movement to combat our
MSN Soapbox is now public beta
MSN Soapbox has been in an invite only state for a few months now, but today sees it enter its public beta phase, so no more waiting to get in and see what the fuss is about.
For those who …
Free Zune? You Must Be Joking…?
Well, I’m not, so there 
. It appears that MSN are giving away a Zune in a sweepstakes over at http://homepage.msn.com/zune. So what do you have to do to be eligible for Microsoft’s MP3 player? Set your Internet Explorer …
Get ready for “Save Our Selves” global concert series
As a followup to yesterday’s post “MSN to host Live Earth concert series” it appears as though the series of concerts is going by the name SOS – Save Our Selves. While the url http://sos.msn.com/ looks to be …
Yahoo builds IM into their mail platform
Just picked up on a killer app, coming from Yahoo’s web mail team. Apparently, Yahoo is now integrating IM into their web mail client. I haven’t been able to give it a go yet since it’s not available to all …
MSN to host Live Earth concert series
At the end of last week there was some chatter from the FT about Al Gore announcing on Saturday a series of concerts to promote climate change. While even the likes of the FT sometimes get their dates wrong, an …
Microsoft announces Windows Live Mobile applications
While there is nothing ground-breaking in last night’s 3GSM announcement regarding Windows Live Mobile, its worth highlighting the work the Mobile team has done in producing some great final products. Torres gets it spot on when he says “old …
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