Google updates Windows Phone 7.5 Search app

Perhaps lost in the hubbub of today’s iPad announcements, Google today updated its search app for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango).  The app, available from the Windows Marketplace, is completely redesigned, according to Google’s Inside ... Read more »

Google is now a connected service to Windows Live

Ever since Wave 3, Windows Live have always had the ability to connect within various social services from across the web, most notably services such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.  By connecting other social ... Read more »

Screenshots: New SkyDrive Mac and Windows clients, paid storage coming?

A Brazilian website, Gemind.com.br (English translation) has posted a set of SkyDrive screenshots which appear to show some new features: A SkyDrive client for Windows or Mac, and some paid storage options. LiveSide readers ... Read more »

Google reportedly readies GDrive, again (and again, and again)

A report from the Wall St. Journal today has Google readying a launch for its version of Dropbox/SkyDrive/iCloud (although they don’t even mention SkyDrive), called Drive.  The new service, which the WSJ says may ... Read more »

Is Bing cranking up new social features?

Much has been made recently both about Google’s somewhat forced entry into social search as it tries to compete with Facebook, and with Bing’s much friendlier relationship with not only Facebook, but Twitter.  Last ... Read more »

Can a Google+ backlash help Bing?

There’s been a bit of a tempest in a teapot brewing this week as Google introduced what it’s calling “Search Plus Your World”.  The feature, which in some respects is similar to the way ... Read more »

Fired Windows Phone evangelist lands at Google

Joe Marini, who was fired from Microsoft after tweeting about the at the time unreleased Nokia 800, has landed at Google, according to, of course, a tweet by Marini this morning: The former Principal ... Read more »

Google Graveyard? Microsoft throws stones from its glass house

On Halloween, Tom Rizzo, a SharePoint Senior Director, poked some fun and threw some stones at rival Google, commenting on Google’s plan to retire Google Wave, and more.  He went so far as to ... Read more »

Microsoft Security Essentials detects Chrome as “trojan”: releases fix

Earlier today reports began amassing in a Google Chrome forum that Microsoft Security Essentials was detecting the PWS:Win32/Zbot trojan as being present in Google Chrome, and removing the web browser from user machines once ... Read more »

Bing: losing money (and catching Google?)

Lots of news about Bing this week, and no, there still haven’t been any announcements about Bing HTML5, even after Build.  Everyone from disgruntled former employees to CNN Money to Google exec Eric Schmidt ... Read more »