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Apr. 29, 2008 at 8:49am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Live Mobile Adds Product Search, "Find My Location"
Microsoft has introduced enhanced mobile product search at m.live.com. It shrinks down the content from the desktop product search into a bite-sized mobile presentation. You get images, reviews, product specifications, and features. These things don't come up for every category; however, it's a very nice presentation of information, and the...
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Apr. 10, 2008 at 7:30am by Greg Sterling
Four Year Effort Culiminates In "ClearFlow" Traffic On Microsoft Live Search Maps
Today in 72 US cities, Microsoft is introducing what it calls "ClearFlow" on Live Search Maps. It's an improved traffic and routing service that relies on machine learning and predictive modeling to offer better traffic and routing information to consumers across the US. Microsoft employee and artificial intelligence expert Eric...
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Apr. 2, 2008 at 8:40am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft To Upgrade Mobile IE Browser, Live Search For Mobile With New Mapping Features And Voice Search For Blackberries
At the CTIA wireless industry trade show yesterday, among the scores of announcements, Microsoft said that it would be releasing a new and improved mobile IE browser for smart phones in the fall that promises to bring "desktop quality" to the mobile Internet experience. (Numerous others are engaged in this...
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Feb. 27, 2008 at 10:19am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft's Chief Strategy Officer: "Google Owes Its Business To Us"
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium, Microsoft's Chief Strategy Officer Craig Mundie made the perhaps technically correct but strange remark that Google's business was essentially derivative of Microsoft's success. "If we didn't succeed at the PC, they wouldn't have a business," Mundie is quoted as saying. Yet Microsoft...
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Feb. 11, 2008 at 1:33pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Buys Danger
Microsoft has acquired Danger, Inc., maker of the T-mobile "Sidekick" device and the Danger operating system and platform. Danger has been hailed as highly innovative and its platform and OS pre-dates the iPhone (the company was founded in 2000). There's a bit of an irony here in that Danger was...
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Jan. 9, 2008 at 9:28am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Provides Local Search Content To Garmin Personal Navigation Devices
LiveSide reports on a deal that provides access to Live Search Maps/Local content via MSN Direct to the Garmin nüvi 780 personal navigation device (PND). Users can get maps, news, weather, local events, and other content. One can also plan trips on Windows Live Local and then "send to...
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Dec. 19, 2007 at 8:13am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Builds A Better Mobile Search Experience
Yesterday Microsoft announced a number of content upgrades and changes to its local search for mobile devices, which include reviews, one-click directions, interactive maps, photos, and so on. There's more specific detail on the Virtual Earth blog. All the major search engines are now offering blended search results on their...
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Dec. 10, 2007 at 9:26am by Greg Sterling
MSN Introduces Advertising On Mobile Portal
Not long ago, Microsoft's MSN relaunched its WAP portal. Today the company is introducing display advertising (graphical and text ads) to MSN Mobile in the US market. (Mobile display advertising is already present on MSN in Belgium, France, Japan, Spain, and the UK.) According to AP, inaugural advertisers include Bank...
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Oct. 25, 2007 at 1:01pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft's Ballmer: Bidding On 700 MHZ Would 'Alienate The Telecom Industry'
Speaking on Tuesday at the CTIA mobile trade show, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer definitively said that the company would not bid for wireless spectrum licenses next year. Reuters quotes Ballmer as saying, "What would it buy us to buy a piece of spectrum, one piece of spectrum in one country...It...
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Oct. 15, 2007 at 9:00pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Releases Upgrades For Maps, Local, And Mobile
Late last month, at its "Searchification" event, Microsoft introduced a wide range of search enhancements and improvements. The company also said there would be additional updates to follow. Those are now rolling out and include feature and content enhancements for maps, local, and mobile services. The biggest news is the...
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Sep. 17, 2007 at 11:59pm by Greg Sterling
Sprint And Microsoft Extend Mobile Partnership, Offer New Services
Microsoft has been powering the search box on Sprint for awhile now, and the companies have had a public, strategic relationship since last November. But this evening they announced some new enhancements and mobile services. There are essentially two things being introduced: location-aware mobile search and a rich client download...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 8:31am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft To Use Inrix Traffic Prediction Data Across Network
Microsoft, which helped develop the technology behind traffic data provider Inrix and then spun it out, has now adopted the company's services to provide traffic data and predictions across a range of Microsoft online and mobile properties including Virtual Earth and Live Local. Live Local had been using data from...
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Aug. 23, 2007 at 9:22am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Teams Up With Nokia To Provide Windows Live For S60
Microsoft and Nokia team up to offer Windows Live on S60 devices from the LiveSide Blog reports Microsoft and Nokia, in a new agreement, will begin to allow S60 device owners to use Windows Live suite on their devices. The rollout will be across 11 different countries, and you can...
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Aug. 13, 2007 at 9:11am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft And 'White Space' Coalition To Try Again On Internet Access Plan
A coalition of companies that includes Microsoft, Google, Intel and Dell were recently rebuffed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in their combined effort to offer wireless Internet access on unused portions of the nation's television airwaves, so-called "white space." The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) found...
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Aug. 6, 2007 at 9:45am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft, Google Suffer Setback On 'White Space' Internet Access Plan
According to a Dow Jones report, prototype devices from Google, Microsoft and a coalition of companies that includes Philips, Intel and Dell failed an initial test that might have allowed the group to offer wireless internet and potentially other services on "unused portions of the nation's television airwaves." The Federal...
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Jun. 18, 2007 at 7:03am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Launches New & Improved MSN Mobile
At one point Microsoft appeared to be backing away from the MSN brand in favor of "Live." That no longer seems to be the case. Today the company launched a new mobile portal, signaling what would appear to be a new commitment to the MSN brand, with Live as the...
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May. 3, 2007 at 7:55am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Buys EU Mobile Ad Firm ScreenTonic
Microsoft announced earlier today that it had acquired six-year-old European mobile ad platform company ScreenTonic. Last February, Microsoft acquired European mobile search provider MotionBridge. This past March Microsoft bought Tellme. Thus, the company is putting together an impressive suite of mobile assets for both consumers and carriers....
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May. 2, 2007 at 9:16am by Barry Schwartz
Globe Glider Enables "Next Generation" Maps Mashups
Super Mapping Mashup -> Globe Glider Next Generation from the Google Earth Blog reports that Globe Glider has enabled more features to wow those who want to do map mashups. Now you can integrate Virtual Earth to Google Maps and Virtual Earth to Google Earth, when before you were only...
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Mar. 28, 2007 at 9:11am by Danny Sullivan
Google Partners With LG & Mobile Handset Maker Deal Chart
Google has gained another mobile phone handset partnership, this time with LG. As of the second quarter of this year, selected LG handsets shipped throughout the world will be preloaded with mobile versions of Google software, including Google Maps, Gmail and Blogger. Yahoo signed a similar deal with LG in...
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Mar. 19, 2007 at 12:43pm by Mike Blumenthal
TellMe: Is Microsoft Shadow Boxing Against Google In Mobile Voice Search?
The recent acquisition of TellMe by Microsoft, piqued my interest in the free voice driven directory assistance service, 520-Find and the possible role that Google plays in the service. Mobile directory assistance will have a huge role in both local search and local advertising going forward. Clearly, Google has...
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Mar. 16, 2007 at 11:00am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft's Tellme Acquisition 'Accelerates' Mobile Search Competition
Notwithstanding Microsoft's own existing speech assets, the Tellme acquisition appears to be complementary and strategic for Microsoft across the board. There were the four principal areas, identified in the release, that would be pursued or enhanced by the acquisition: unified communications, speech platform, software plus services and mobile services and...
