Rumour: Amazon to launch Windows Phone in 2012?

This seems to be a nice surprise, but today an article on Forbes reported that Amazon is currently eyeing the mobile market, with plans to launch a Windows-based smartphone device in Q4 2012. Here’s ... Read more »

Bing tests Amazon Product Reviews, Yahoo! Answers in search results

One nice thing about Bing, you can learn a lot about what’s (potentially) coming next as features are tested in various regions and markets around the world.  We’ve seen early testing as far back ... Read more »

First Apple, then Amazon and now Google. Can anybody do cloud services well?

With all the fuss in recent weeks about Apple’s dismal failure with MobileMe, in particular around providing a stable and reliable service, its interesting to see that today Google is having issues also. With ... Read more »

Red Dog: Ray Ozzie's answer to the Google App Engine?

(Note: while we’ve been serving up a number of potential new Windows Live logos recently, this isn’t one of them.  I just happen to like Clifford the Big Red Dog) Much has been made ... Read more »

Microsoft announces Windows Live deal with Lenovo

As we noted earlier, and as Joe Wilcox alluded to earlier today, Microsoft and Lenovo announced a deal to include Live.com and Windows Live toolbar on Lenovo PCs worldwide: “As a part of their ... Read more »

Amazon launches QnA rival

If you were in any doubt as to which way most of the big internet portals think search is going, Amazon has made it crystal clear; Askville, Amazon's new social search service, has launched into ... Read more »