Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine
According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new Bing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10.
Last time we looked, Bing was sitting at around 9.4% of the search market in July, but Nielsen’s new numbers confirm the search engine’s continued growth through the month of August, [...]
Will the Zune HD Fail Without an App Store?
On Tuesday, Microsoft launched its answer to Apple’s iPod touch with the Zune HD. And while the Zune Marketplace will be offering plenty of content in the way of music and movies, what it won’t be offering is an App Store to compete with the Apple iTunes model.
Market analysts appear to be lining up to [...]
Windows 7 Ad Kills With Cuteness [Video]
Microsoft has experienced mixed results with its ad campaigns. A Seinfeld-Gates pairing was panned in the tech press, but its “Laptop Hunters” series had a positive impact on consumers’ value perception of Microsoft products (even if Apple did insist that one ad be changed).
Come to mention it, who can forget that bizarre [...]
Google Books Investigation: Congress is Now Involved
The entire Google Books affair has turned into one complicated mess.
Here’s a recap of what’s been happening: In late 2008, Google, The Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers came to an agreement over Google Books, which lets you search and read millions of scanned manuscripts. The agreement settled copyright issues and gave [...]
EMAIL ADDICTS: Gmail Users Consume the Most Email
Do different personalities choose different email clients, or is it that different email clients foster different habits? Will a Yahoo Mail user open and read as much email as the average Gmail user? This is the type of data that can be essential for both researchers and marketers.
eMarketer picked up on some recent [...]
Judge to Microsoft: OK, You Can Keep Selling Word For a Couple More Days
If you’ve been following the story about the ban of Microsoft Word, due to a lawsuit from Canadian company i4i Inc regarding Microsoft’s XML patents, you know that Microsoft has originally been given 60 days to pull Word from the market.
Microsoft has put in an appeal, but it has also asked the judge to [...]
Microsoft Will Sponsor Your Windows 7 Kegger … If You’re Cool Enough
We know you’ve all been asking yourselves: “how can I celebrate the launch of Windows 7?” Luckily Microsoft has an answer for you — party! — but there’s a catch: only few are chosen.
In order to be an official Launch Party host, you’ll have to apply, be reviewed, and hope to be approved. Please do [...]
