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Microsoft Live Labs Listas Technology Preview

Microsoft Live Labs have recently released their latest technology preview, Microsoft Live Labs Listas, a web-based application tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and other such stuff. Listas provides you with a WYSIWYG which allows you to

Weather Central implements Microsoft Virtual Earth

Weather Central a provider of state-of-the-art broadcast weather solutions, has today announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The alliance integrates worldwide aerial, satellite imagery and mapping technology provided by Microsoft Virtual Earth into Weather Central’s 3D interactive software applications …

MSN and Farecast.com Launch Free Airfare Predictions, Planning Tools

MSN and Farecast.com, the airfare prediction Web site, have today announced an agreement in which MSN will offer its users free airfare predictions and planning tools on the MSN Travel Channel. The addition of Farecast’s innovative technology and planning …

MSN UK Full Page Live Earth Ad

Just opened up the MSN UK Portal (http://uk.msn.com/) and noticed that there’s now a Full Page Live Earth Interactive Flash Ad, which can be seen by clicking your mouse in the top right hand corner. I’m not sure if …

Microsoft Enhances Virtual Earth Product in Great Britain With High-Resolution 3-D Height Data From Intermap Technologies

Microsoft and Intermap Technologies have today announced the launch of Microsoft’s enhanced Virtual Earth 3-D viewing platform based on Intermap Technologies’ highly accurate and up-to-date elevation data for all of Great Britain. Intermap is also creating similar maps for all of …

Microsoft launches new-look MSN for mobile phones

The MSN Mobile Team at Microsoft launched a redesigned MSN portal optimized for mobile phones on Sunday, stepping up its offering at a time when more powerful devices increase the demand for richer content on handsets. However mobile Internet use …

Windows Live Product Search: More Images, More Relevant!

The Windows Live Product Search Team has just released changes to Windows Live Product Search that boost customer-perceived relevance by increasing the number of query results with images to 88.6%. Previously, the number of query results with images was an

Lots of new stuff just added to Spaces

Some new stuff and some interesting numbers from Spaces: it’s now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 million people a month use Spaces. More …

Omniture to Measure Impact of Microsoft’s i’m Initiative

Omniture, Inc. a leading provider of online business optimization software, yesterday announced it will work with Microsoft on its new Windows Live Messenger i’m Initiative. As you may know every time a customer has a conversation using i’m, Microsoft …

Windows Live.com Happy Valentine’s Day Template

Happy Valentines! 

Ok… maybe it’s a little bit to early but still St Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so why not apply this Happy Valentine’s Day Template to your Windows Live.com Homepage and bring out the love in you!  …