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comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In March 2007, Google Sites captured 48.3 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.2 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 27.5 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.9 percent), Ask
The second day of The Future of Web Design 2007 conference is today and though unfortunately I am not there to enjoy it. My friend Robert Gale is and while there he has been kind enough to send me this photo of a Conference Water Bottle which is advertising Microsoft Water… whoops I mean Microsoft Expression… Got to love Microsoft
In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the Internet age. But rather than corn or cows, this farm teems with computer servers and data storage systems that will serve as the backbone of Microsoft’s effort to combat escalating competition on the Web from Google and others. Microsoft’s new data center in Quincy,
It’s not long now until Windows Live Hotmail launches live to everyone so it’s not surprising to see that Microsoft are hosting a Windows Live Hotmail Marketer Briefing the day before The Authentication Summit this Tuesday the 17th of April at the Boston Sheraton. This No-Charge Conference is titled “Windows Live Hotmail – Marketing Insights” and is designed for online marketers
This week the UK Windows Live Expo Team are giving away a copy of the wonderful Windows Vista Ultimate in their cool listings competition! All you have to do to get your hands on it is submit a cool listing in line with their criteria. So clear out your unwanted belongings, make some money and be in with the chance of winning
Microsoft today announced that beginning the week of the 7th of May 2007, your Xbox LIVE friends list is about to get a whole lot bigger as Windows Live Messenger is launched on the Xbox 360, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices. With this update to Xbox 360, friends and families can easily connect and chat
A major imagery release just went online at Live Maps and the Virtual Earth platform – 3.8 terabytes worth of imagery to be exact. The 3.8TB update features dozens more cities of Birds eye coverage as well as some high resolution ortho imagery from the Ultracam and GlobeXplorer. And lots of European Birds eye coverage, including some countries that had not
Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than doubling the initial pace of sales for its predecessor, Windows XP. These initial figures reflect the broad interest in the security and usability enhancements in Windows
Here’s some cool news. It looks like Microsoft is now starting to implement its adCenter Labs Video HyperLink Technology with real world clients. The first signs of this come this week as MSN Entertainment shows of Kohl’s department store using the Video HyperLink Technology, which is an interactive video tool which provides more information about objects in a video when you click or even hover on
Just days after Google (GOOG, news, msgs) CEO Eric Schmidt said that media companies will have no choice but to work with online sites such as YouTube, the first of the big media companies has responded — with a $1 billion lawsuit. Media giant Viacom (VIA, news, msgs) is charging that the video-sharing site, now owned by Google, has shown