Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
Yahoo has become the latest search engine company to take help from Twitter to stay up to date.
The company has announced that they would start indexing data from Twitter and show it along with search results in the coming days.
Microsoft and [...]
A scene from Microsoft Store!
T-Mobile Sidekick goes on sale once again
T-Mobile has finally resumed the sales of their Sidekick mobile devices.
The company had stopped the sales after the Sidekick servers crashed a couple of weeks ago.
Microsoft and T-Mobile worked on recovering the data of the Sidekick owners.
The two companies later stated that they managed to [...]
Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer
Paul Allen is a well known personality and is known as the co-founder of Microsoft along with Bill Gates.
Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
This comes after 25 years after he was treated for Hodgkin’s disease.
This news was released by a spokesman at his company Vulcan. [...]
Don Dodge joins Google
Don Dodge was one of the high profile individuals who was fired by Microsoft during one of their routine lay-offs.
He has now become the latest Google employee with a long history at Microsoft!
Dodge spoke about his new home in a blog post:
Thanks Microsoft, I’m going to Google! Vic Gundotra at Google [...]
Microsoft Bing market share in USA: 10%
Microsoft has almost gained a 10% market share in the USA with their Bing search engine.
Google had around 65.5% market share while Yahoo had 18% in the month of October as per the reports published by comScore.
Microsoft Bing has done well but it seems to be taking [...]
Windows Mobile continues to lose market share
Microsoft is struggling in the smartphone market. Their Windows Mobile platform is no longer a strong player with rivals gaining market share.
The latest report by Gartner reveals that Windows Mobile had a market share of just around 7.9 percent in the third quarter of the year.
This [...]
Microsoft Bing in UK is out of beta
Microsoft has now taken out their Bing search engine Europe out of beta.
They are now going to highlight localized content on the Bing UK search engine. This includes the imagery shown on the homepage of Bing.
There are some other features that are being introduced:
The daily [...]
Amazon Web Services launches a SDK for .Net
Amazon has some good news for the .Net developers.
They have now made available an SDK that would make it easier for them to develop and deploy applications on the Amazon Web Services.
Interestingly, Amazon has launched this new SDK just as Microsoft has begun promoting their own [...]
Microsoft Bing now has data from Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha has been one of the most impressive launches in the search engine market.
Wolfram Alpha is not really a search engine but it does provide data that is generally searched for in regular search engines.
Microsoft Bing has realized the potential of this computational engine and [...]
