Fresh out of Nielson Netratings is their Februay search share analysis – Live Search increasing from 8.9% in January to 9.6% in February. While it may be too early to start celebrating, it’s the 2nd consecutive month of growth in 2007 …

According to an article appearing today in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required, free preview here), Comcast Corp. is unhappy with their relationship with Google Inc., and is in negotiations with Microsoft to perhaps switch services:

Comcast Corp. is

Microsoft is clearly investing in more mobile technologies by announcing Thursday that they will be purchasing Tellme Networks.  Founded in 1999, Tellme is a provider of voice-enabled services, which include their free service +1 800 555 TELL [8355], as …

As you know, most of us at LiveSide are Microsoft MVPs, and attended the MVP Summit last week.  It was an interesting experience, to say the least.

We’re enthusiasts.  We all use Windows Live products. We follow it incessantly, spend most …

The Windows Dev blog posted last week about a new project that has appeared on CodePlex called “Live In A Box“. First thing to note about this project is that although it’s been made by people who work …

There’s been lots of talk about Windows Live OneCare in the last two weeks, particularly around its poor detection rate in some recent malware tests. On Thursday the OneCare team respond on their team blog, though while it’s good …

We can’t disclose a lot of what we saw [or even if we saw anything at all] at the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Global Summit [isn’t that a typical Microsoft name?].  However, consistently we heard that Microsoft at all levels …

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 continued collaboration, Microsoft Corp.

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 …

In a post that seems to contradict the doomsday scenario that Joe Wilcox seems to be pushing, he reports today that an unidentified OEM will “imminently announce its first PC-bundling deal for Windows Live”.

According to sources cited by Wilcox, the …