Research in Motion, the company behind the popular blackberry line of phones, has announced that it will be partnering with Microsoft and TiVo to further enhance it’s mobile services offerings. With the iPhone taking the smartphone market by storm, RIM is rumored to be working on it’s iPhone competitor, a touch screen Blackberry. Meanwhile it’s [...]
September 12th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Live Search"
Facebook to put Live Search on their pages
Microsoft and Facebook today announced plans to have Live Search on facebook pages at Facebook’s F8 Developer conference in San Francisco. Microsoft will provide search functionality and search advertising on Facebook and this ads to the existing relationship betweem the two companies. In 2006 the two signed an ad partnership for third-party ads to be [...]
July 24th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedMicrosoft to offer iPod for trying Live Search in Australia
Let’s face it. Microsoft’s Live search is very disappointing and the deal with Yahoo is not coming along. So what could Microsoft do to lure web surfers to the live search? Well, the answer for Australian surfers is iPod. You heard it right! Microsoft is offering lucky web surfers Apple’s iPod as prizes for trying [...]
July 3rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedWindows Live Search toolbar to be available on 2009 consumer PC’s from HP
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship in the United States and Canada, beginning in January 2009. As part of this deal, the default search engine setting in the [...]
June 2nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued