April, 2009

Microsoft’s new free anti-malware solution gets closer: a new name for Morro?

El Morro, in San Juan, Puerto Rico Last year Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows Live OneCare, and turn instead to develop a new, free security product, code named Morro.  We’ve heard that Morro has already been in limited alpha testing, that it’s …

Live Search turns off search crawler, starts SEM blog series

bot Search Engine Roundtable has been following a thread at WebMaster World concerning some disturbing behavior from MSNbot, the crawler Live Search uses to find and index information on the web.  As of last night (April 28), the offending “feature” …

Windows Live Video Messages Has Now Been Updated To Wave 3

VideoMessagesWave3Windows Live Video Messages has now been updated to Wave3, as promised nearly 2 weeks ago. As you can see it now has the Wave 3 header, so you can navigate easier between all the Windows Live services.
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Virtual Earth Imagery Release, April 2009

This month’s Virtual Earth imagery release is 9+ TB of data, all ortho again, covering over 1 million square kilometers of Earth. There have been new releases and/or updates for the following countries:

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil,

Tellme coming soon to Windows Mobile 6.5

tellmelogo Microsoft bought Tellme back in March of 2007, and released an app for Blackberry last year, so we’ve been expecting to hear the news that came out today, that Tellme will be available for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones this …

More Tough Love: LiveSide interviews Danny Sullivan about Live Search

smxadvancedlogo Danny Sullivan, Editor in Chief of Search Engine Land, conference organizer for Search Marketing Expos and Search Marketing Now, and all around search guru, took some time with us today to talk about Live Search, in conjunction with the …

Visualizing Swine Flu On Virtual Earth

The Swine Flu, who hasn’t heard of it yet, and who isn’t tracking it? It’s all over the news; tv, sites, the blogosphere and twitter of course. Now you can also track it on Virtual Earth:

Live Search

Live Mesh updated for Mobile, Mac, Live Desktop

livemeshblog A new service update is now available for Live Mesh Mac, Mobile, and Live Mesh Desktop has been updated as well, according to a post on the Live Mesh team blog.

The release “continues to tune performance” and has …

Windows Live Profile (April) update is here!

As announced one week ago, the newly updated Windows Live Profile has been rolled out to all users now! A summary of all the changes that were part of this update include:

  • 20 new Web Activities, including Facebook,

Windows Live Web Toolbar – How to integrate into your site