It looks like Microsoft has missed another big trend.
New data from comScore says desktop search has fallen on year over year basis for four straight months. Analyst Ben Schachter at Macquarie says that by year-end mobile will be 25-30% of all search traffic. more…
Harmon.ie has made it even easier to access SharePoint by making a mobile app that is available for tablets and smartphones. It has led to making this video to spread the word, and I was hoping that you wouldn’t mind mentioning it on your site. more…
Microsoft posted and then retracted their announcement of renaming the search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo to the Yahoo Bing Network. Part of that announcement is that Microsoft adCenter, the name of Microsoft’s search ad network, is now being renamed to Bing Ads. more…
Windows 8 is set for an October 26 release date, but Microsoft introduced its Bing for Windows 8 app last week. Emphasizing the user experience, the Bing Search Blog stated they “completely reimagined search” for Windows 8. more…
Microsoft is expected to build a little more than 3 million Surface tablets, market researcher IDC told CNET. An IDC analyst also offered his views on the likelihood of a $199 version of the tablet.
Production plans are for a few million units for calendar 2012, said IDC analyst Bob O’Donnell in a phone interview. more…
Google has lashed out at Microsoft researcher Terry Zink, claiming there is no evidence to support his warning that a new botnet is forcing infected Android phones to churn out spam.
The search giant said in a statement that its own internal research indicated the spam messages were more…
Just a few weeks after completely redesigning its regular search results pages, Bing rolled out a nice update to its image search feature today. With this update, Microsoft is improving its search suggestions for related searches and making it easier for users to ilter images by size, color, type and layout. Bing also moved these features to the top of the page. more…
Microsoft ruled the PC market for decades with utter dominance. But today, as the future shifts toward mobile devices, things are not looking good for Microsoft. It’s not that it’s not trying: Microsoft is spending a lot of money and effort on cracking the mobile market, now in lockstep with Nokia, its top partner. But there’s no indication yet that it’s having any real success.
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