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Microsoft's #DroidRage Campaign Gives Away Free Phones To Those Who Tweet Disses About Android - Posted December 13, 2011
Considering switching your Android device for a Windows phone? Now's your chance - as long as you're willing to say something nasty about your old phone. Microsoft is running a semi-unofficial-but-still-official Twitt... [AllTwitter]

Everyone's Getting Connected with the Boob Tube - Posted December 7, 2011
If Fred is the future of connected TV, please allow me to disconnect. It is a time when TVs that are aligned with and act like our computers -- smart TVs -- are the ones on... [PRNewser]

Reddit User Discovers Hotmail Phishing Scam - Posted November 16, 2011
[caption id="attachment_84331" align="alignright" width="175" caption="govinfosecurity"][/caption] When a user of the social news sharing platform Reddit decided to investigate if a phishing message he'd received had actually worked, he discovered it had. A little bit of sleuthing revealed more than 47,000 stolen identities from Hotmail.com and MSN.... [SocialTimes.com]

New Website Tools Translate Veteran Skills into 500,000 Private-Sector Jobs - Posted November 11, 2011
Just in time for Veterans Day and with the troops coming home, the Federal government introduced new website tools designed to help veterans use the skills they learned from military service to find a job in the civilian sector. My N... [SocialTimes.com]

BREAKING: Schema.org announces intent to support RDFa Lite! - Posted November 11, 2011
Last month, we reported on the new RDFa 1.1 Lite proposal by Ben Adida. In our recent podcast... [AllTwitter]

Searches Powered by Microsoft Bing Increasing at an Impressive Rate [Infographic] - Posted November 11, 2011
Without a doubt Google owns a majority of U.S. search traffic on the Internet. But, according to Experian's Hitwise report Microsoft's Bing might be coming up the ranks as it continues month after month gradually wearing down Google's control over search traffic. With that said, if your current SEO strategy has... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Marketplace Extra Site Provides Windows Phone App Recommendations - Posted November 2, 2011
The Microsoft Windows Phone smartphone platforms currently trails way behind market leaders iPhone, Android and even the troubled BlackBerry. However, if new phones from Microsoft's primary hardware partner Nokia builds marketshare, new Windows Phone owners will need a way to find great apps for work... [SocialTimes.com]

Viral Radar: Microsoft Reveals Their Vision Of Future Productivity - Posted October 31, 2011
An amazing new video that was uploaded earlier this week to the Microsoft Office videos YouTube channel and is going viral today, reveals Microsoft's vision of the future. In the future, according to the video's description, "tech... [SocialTimes.com]

Google & Microsoft Jealous of Siri? - Posted October 25, 2011
Apple's Siri interface has been attracting derision from higher-ups at Google and M... [semanticweb.com]

The Semantic Link - Episode 11, October 2011 - Posted October 17, 2011
On Friday, October 14, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the... [semanticweb.com]

Microsoft Brings Broad Range of TV Shows to Xbox - Posted October 7, 2011
The holidays will bring the owners of the Xbox 360 a broad range of TV shows and other entertainment content through their gaming consoles. Microsoft announced that the company is partnering with Comcast, HBO, Bravo, Verizon's FiOS service and others with the intent to bring on-demand and live television content to... [SocialTimes.com]

Xbox Companion App for Windows Phone Can Navigate and Control Xbox 360 Content - Posted October 6, 2011
If you have an Xbox 360 and a Windows Phone, you will have an app that brings the two products a lot closer together in the future. The Xbox Companion App will be available for free for Windows Phone. It will let Windows Phone users control content on an Xbox 360. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Which Social Media Company Has the Smartest People? - Posted October 3, 2011
Facebook, right? It's always Facebook! And, to a certain extent, this is true. When you look at the war for talent currently being waged in Silicon Valley, Facebook is one of... [SocialTimes.com]

Windows Phone 7.5 Update Being Delivered. Feels Like My Phone is Faster & Better Now - Posted September 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_79677" align="alignleft" width="212" caption="Example of new Windows Phone 7.5 threaded messaging."][/caption]Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 (pre-launch codename "Mango") was released as an update for the first generation Windows Phone 7 devices this week. ... [SocialTimes.com]

What Twitter Thinks About Windows 8 [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted September 28, 2011
Windows 8, the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, is looking like a much-needed leap forward for the Redmond-based company... and that's got people talking on Twitter. Microsoft gave in in-depth preview of their new OS at their Build Windows conference a fortnight ag... [AllTwitter]

Schema.org Workshop - A Path Forward - Posted September 22, 2011
[caption id="attachment_23388" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="schema.org Leadership Panel; L-to-R: Michael O'Connor (Microsoft), John Giannandrea (Google), Charlie Jiang (Microsoft), Kavi Goel (Google), R.V. Guha (Google), Steve MacBeth (Microsoft), Gaurav Mishra (Yahoo), Peter Mika (Yahoo) "]... [semanticweb.com]

First Impression: Windows 8 Preview on a Netbook with a Touch Display - Posted September 14, 2011
Microsoft is betting not one but two farms on Windows 8. It was made available to the public in a preview release this week as part of activity for the Microsoft Build conference for hardware and software developers. Microsoft R... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Licenses Jinni's Semantic Video Search Technology...But What Will They Use It For? - Posted September 8, 2011
Today Jinni, taste-and-mood based discovery engine for TV and movies, has announced that Microsoft has licensed their semantic video discovery technology. Jinni's technology is a one-of-a-kind service that allows viewers to easily find content according to mood, plot, style and mo... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Steady As She Goes With Windows Phone - Posted September 7, 2011
All of the uncertainty in the smartphone market has been beneficial to Microsoft, who is steadily working to make Windows Phone a viable option. HP's retreat from the market took a competitor ou... [SocialTimes.com]

Dell Targets IT Pros with October Event - Posted September 6, 2011
  From October 12 through 14, Dell World 2011 will host IT decisionmakers at an inaugural conference in Austin, TX aimed at this niche group. While some conferences, tech-specific or otherwise, tout their colossalness with attendance figures in the tens of thousands, this conference is purposely sta... [PRNewser]

Infolinks Introduces Self-Service Semantic Advertising - Posted August 22, 2011
Online advertising that leverages semantic technology is expanding to the do-it-yourself model. Infolinks today is launching its self-service in-text advertising marketplace. The company says the service is designed to speed advertisers' ability to create in-text ad campaigns, which work in the Infolin... [AllTwitter]

HP Drops Out of Tablet War - Posted August 19, 2011
[caption id="attachment_26047" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="'Glee's Lea Michele in a TouchPad ad"][/caption] In a sad but not entirely surprising move, Silicon Valley's ... [PRNewser]

Scott Adams' (Dilbert creator) Smartphone Challenge Winner Declared. And, It Is... Windows Phone 7 - Posted August 19, 2011
[caption id="attachment_75047" align="alignleft" width="186" caption="Samsung Focus."][/caption]Earlier this month, I noted that Scott Adams, Dilbert creator and cartoonist, took up a challenge from Microsoft's Brandon Watson (Director for developer experience of Windows Phone 7) to try out a Windows Phone 7 device he (Brandon) would p... [SocialTimes.com]

No Updates for Windows Phone 7 After Mango App Updates Rolls Out. Disaster in the Making? - Posted August 16, 2011
Microsoft's "Mango" update for Windows Phone is will be available in some form next month. The update is a significant one that includes movement to multitasking, enhanced voice commands and integration of the People Hub with Twitter. The Windows Phone Developer Blog offers a number of tips for developers who will... [SocialTimes.com]

What Do You Think Is Being Promoted Here? - Posted August 10, 2011
To answer the above question, you have to wait until nearly the end of this clip, and then it becomes very apparent. ... [PRNewser]

Everyone in the World Reacts to the U.S.'s S&P Downgrade - Posted August 8, 2011
[caption id="attachment_25475" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="President Obama speaking about the S&P downgrade today. Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images"][/caption] The Dow has closed down 617 points. And the devil is making ... [PRNewser]

WordPress 1.2 for Windows Phone: Landscape Editing, UI Improvements & More - Posted August 4, 2011
WordPress for iOS (was iPhone) went through a multi-year transformation from a promising but bug-ridden app to a functional one. It looks like WordPress for Windows Phone 7 has avoided a similar track. However, although it had not not been plagued by the crashes and login problems that the iOS version... [SocialTimes.com]

Scott Adams (Dilbert) Took Up Microsoft's Windows Phone Challenge - Posted August 3, 2011
[caption id="attachment_72778" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Image courtesy of AOL Joystiq."][/caption]There's a saying that there's no such thing as bad publicity. And, it looks like Microsoft's Brandon Watson (Director for developer expe... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Providing Developer Tools To Access Windows Live - Posted July 27, 2011
If you use mobile apps that work with Facebook or Twitter then you are probably familiar with the process for giving those apps permission to access your account on those services. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Apologizes For Trying To Cash In On Amy Winehouse On Twitter - Posted July 25, 2011
Microsoft's UK PR team made a huge Twitter (and just plain common sense) misstep earlier today when they tried to direct grieving Amy Winehouse fans to purchase her album on Zune. Read on for details about this Twitter fumble. This is yet another lesson in thinking before you press "send"... [AllTwitter]

Bing Brings It On (RDFa, That Is) - Posted July 21, 2011
The Twittersphere is buzzing about the Semantic Web at last grabbing onto the hearts and minds of the whole web community. It started off with a tweet from Juan Sequeda - a contributor to The Semantic Web Blog and a well-known figure in our area - that reads:         A follow-up message explains: ... [semanticweb.com]

Microsoft Opened Messenger Connect to Android & iOS Developers: SkyDrive, Hotmail, Messenger - Posted July 21, 2011
Microsoft has a curious set of disconnected multi-platform mobile strategies. For example, Microsoft licensed Exchange ActiveSync to Google. This let Google offer cloud based syncing of phones for email, calendar events and contacts before Microsoft itself. Google offered cloud based calendar and contacts sync for W... [SocialTimes.com]

Why Should Firms Perform Social Media Security Checks? - Posted July 18, 2011
Image by knoe.com Firms should to get up to speed and regulate or investigate the need for their company to check and see if their security cleared staff c... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Launching a Social Network Called 'Tulalip'? - Posted July 18, 2011
  Microsoft skidded on the social media realm yesterday when it prematurely introduced, what some pundits are calling, the computer company's own version of their social networking platform. According to reports from ComputerWorld and ... [SocialTimes.com]

foursquare, Microsoft Combine Efforts on Windows Phone 7 App - Posted July 5, 2011
foursquare teamed up with Microsoft to develop a thoroughly revamped version of foursquare for Windows Phone 7, developed entirely on the location-based mobile app's open API. ... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft SkyDrive: 25GB Free Cloud Storage. Now Mobile Browser Friendly - Posted June 21, 2011
This announcement in Microsoft's Inside Windows Live blog does not mention anything about mobile browsers. Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web, built using HTML5 ... [SocialTimes.com]

The Semantic Link - Episode 7, June 2011 - Posted June 20, 2011
On Monday, June 20, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the se... [semanticweb.com]

Test Drive Windows Phone Mango IE9 Browser on Your Desktop - Posted June 16, 2011
One of the things Microsoft did not bring up to date in Windows Phone 7 is its browser. While better than the even older browser technology used in Windows Mobile 6, Windows Phone's Internet Explorer 6 based browser lacks features found in modern mobile browsers like the ones use in the... [SocialTimes.com]

Messaging Apps Impact On Text Messaging - Posted June 10, 2011
The Wall Street Journal has an article today in which it suggests that Internet-based messaging apps like the Blackberry Messenger and the newly announced Apple iMessage are threatening text messaging serv... [SocialTimes.com]

Windows Phone "Mango" Integration with SkyDrive Could be a Productivity Game Changer - Posted June 8, 2011
SkyDrive lets you store up to 25GB of data for free in Microsoft's cloud. Its integration with Windows Phone 7 can be charitabily described as spotty. For example, photos can be uploaded directly to SkyDrive but video cannot. On the other hand, Windows Phone 7 has been able to automatically upload... [SocialTimes.com]

Windows 8: The "Post PC" PC Recalls Windows 1.0, UMPC & Xbox 360 - Posted June 2, 2011
Like many people I was fascinated by what Microsoft had to say about Windows 8. Previewing 'Windows 8' (Microsoft Press Pass) It is obviously focused on a tablet experience to address the iPad and its "Post PC" peers including A... [SocialTimes.com]

Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" May Be More Social (than it already is) - Posted May 16, 2011
[caption id="attachment_62379" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Image courtesy of windows phone dev podcast"][/caption]Windows Phone 7.5 (also known as "Mango") appears to be many months away from delivery to consumers. However, winrumors noted that the ... [SocialTimes.com]

Will Microsoft Use Skype To Compete With Google Voice? - Posted May 10, 2011
As we reported earlier today, Microsoft has announced that they are acquiring Skype. Articles on the acquisition on the Internet have range from claims ... [SocialTimes.com]

Tools Round Up: MyMediaInfo, Cision, ContentAide, and Skype - Posted May 10, 2011
MyMediaInfo has added an international media database to its offerings. The database includes information about journalists and other media contacts in Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, and Africa. The ... [PRNewser]

Does Your Press Release Need Some Multimedia Magic? - Posted May 9, 2011
To press release or not to press release? Isn't that always the question? Fact is, no matter how much people talk about the death of the press release, they're still used by many companies and marketers to get the word out. According to Laura Sturaitis, EVP of media services and product strategy... [PRNewser]

What's Augmented Reality? And Other Mobile Topics - Posted May 5, 2011
Don't we already live in an augmented reality? Kind of, but our reality will get even m... [PRNewser]

Microsoft & Nokia Sign Agreement Early-Acutely Aware of Time Pressure - Posted April 22, 2011
Two recent mobile platform analyst projections have placed Microsoft's Windows Phone platform as a solid if distant second place behind Android in 2015. This is difficult to imagine even among Windows Phone fans like me given the platform's distant fourth place position in 2011. The mo... [SocialTimes.com]

Add Insult to Injury: Windows Phone 7 Can't Create or View Microsoft PhotoSynth Panoramas. iPhones Can do Both - Posted April 20, 2011
I was very impressed after using Microsoft PhotoSynth for the iPhone to create a VR-like panoramic image viewable on PhotoSynth's website. Microsoft PhotoSynth for iPhone: Snap & Share Panoramas Subsequently, other people pointed out the irony that Mi... [SocialTimes.com]

Windows Phone Futures? Skype, Angry Birds, Mango - Posted April 14, 2011
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 was well received by gadget reviewers after its Mobile World Congress 2010 announcement and November release (in the U.S.). Since then, however, there hasn't been much marketing of the platform. And, most of the news surrounding Windows Phone 7 has been the slow and painful rollout of... [SocialTimes.com]

Nokia's Human Cost for its Microsoft Windows Phone Strategy - Posted April 13, 2011
I am among the group that applauded when Nokia announced it would abandon Symbian as its primary smartphone platform in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone. I continue to believe it is a good strategic move and am anxiously waiting for the first Nokia Windows Phone device to emerge. Unfortunately, there is always... [SocialTimes.com]

First On-Device Windows Phone 7 Screenshot by an Ordinary Blogger (me)? - Posted April 12, 2011
In the previous blog post, I wrote about Microsoft Research's amazing Windows Phone 7 software development app that lets you write software for Windows Phone right on the phone itself. Microsoft R... [SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Research TouchStudio Makes Windows Phone a Game Changing Platform: Prepare to be Amazed - Posted April 12, 2011
It isn't often that a mobile app changes the way I think about the mobile computing world. But, Microsoft Research' TouchStudio app for Windows Phone 7 did just that. If fact, it or some production release follow-up product may help change the whole platform hierarchy in the next year or two.... [SocialTimes.com]

Gartner Says Microsoft Will Not have any Tablet Marketshare in 2015 - Posted April 12, 2011
Gartner has an interesting view of the tablet world in 2015. Gartner Says Apple iOS to Dominate the Media Tablet Market Through 2015, Owning More Than Half of It for the Next Three Years Gartner says that Apple's iOS and Google's Android will rule the 2015 tablet world with a com... [SocialTimes.com]

Exploring the Semantics of Yahoo Search Direct - Posted April 11, 2011
A couple of weeks ago Yahoo debuted a beta version of its Search Direct technology, which was seen as a competitor to Google Instant in that it shows search options as users begin typing in a query. There were also questions raised among those in the industry about h... [semanticweb.com]

Rahm Emanuel Embraces Open City Government - Posted April 8, 2011
Chicago2011.org reports that, "Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel visited Microsoft's offices downtown to discuss the great ideas coming from Chicagoans to this website, and propose further technology initiatives that City Hall can take to engage citizens, ... [AllTwitter]

Rahm Emanuel Embraces Open City Government - Posted April 8, 2011
Chicago2011.org reports that, "Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel visited Microsoft's offices downtown to discuss the great ideas coming from Chicagoans to this website, and propose further technology initiatives that City Hall can take to engage citizens, ... [semanticweb.com]

Bing for iPad: The Portal is Back, Baby! With a Hint of Windows Phone's Metro UI - Posted April 8, 2011
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, everyone wanted to have a web portal that would provide its users with everything they could possibly need: Email, news, reference material, and more. The idea was to attract and keep attention on a one-stop shop. The portal concept morphed into creating a rich... [SocialTimes.com]

Desktop Computers Will Soon Have a Mobile Device Interface Look - Posted April 5, 2011
The first Microsoft Windows CE based Handheld PCs where introduced during Fall Comdex 1996. Its interface looked like a small version of the Windows 95 desktop interface. This visual interface relationship was maintained in on all of the Pocket PC and Windows Mobile devices. This interface relationship between Windows on the... [SocialTimes.com]

Bing Tries to Help Japan on Twitter, Walks into a PR Nightmare - Posted March 14, 2011
Bing has been getting crucified for its March 12th tweet asking followers to retweet their post in exchange for a $1 donation to help victims of the devastation in Japan. The early Saturday morning tweet from @bing said "How can yo... [AllTwitter]

How to Handle Website Downtime (Hint: Use Twitter) [Study] - Posted March 8, 2011
If your website goes down, you'd better jump on Twitter. At least, that's the lesson of a recent study prepared by Microsoft Learning and Psychster Inc. The study was p... [AllTwitter]

Bing Ramps Up Use of Facebook Likes - Posted February 24, 2011
Bing really, really likes Facebook Likes: The Microsoft-owned search engine announced that it extended its Liked Results to include any URLs returned by its algorithmic search results. Lawrence Kim of the Bing Social Team had more on the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Ireland's Computer Board is Making the Switch to Open Source - Posted February 22, 2011
Ireland's Government Computer Service Board is taking their business away from Microsoft and placing it in the hands of open source software. The Board signed a 10 millio... [semanticweb.com]

Mosaic by Tribune Set for New Microsoft Tablets - Posted January 6, 2011
Tribune announced that it will roll out an app for the upcoming line of Microsoft-based tablets, Mosaic by Tribune, which allows users to select articles to read by clicking on a moving set of photographs. Mosaic by Tribune will offer content from all of the publisher's newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times,... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Microsoft Said To Release iPad Competitor At CES - Posted December 14, 2010
Next year could be a big year for tablets. The iPad 2 is rumored to go into production in the first quarter and RIM's Playbook tablet is slated for release in early 2011. And now, Microsoft's new tablet computer is expected to debut at CES next month. ... [eBookNewser]

Microsoft Raises Questions with Earnings Announcement - Posted November 9, 2010
The New York Times' newly revamped Dealbook blog takes a closer look at Microsoft's decision to release its earnings r... [PRNewser]

Jay-Z Memoir Pages Scattered Around World in Scavenger Hunt - Posted October 20, 2010
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College Student Sends Mixed Message About Apple from Windows Phone 7 Launch - Posted October 15, 2010
A college student who got into an angry back-and-forth with Steve Jobs ended up going to the Windows Phone 7 launch this week after she "just happened" to win a contest with eight fellow students, ... [PRNewser]

Conversation Prism 3.0 released, where's Microsoft? - Seattle Times (blog) - Posted October 13, 2010
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Microsoft To Release Windows 7 Phone - Posted October 4, 2010
Microsoft is ready to announce its new Windows 7 phone next week. Along with AT&T, the technology company has sent out invitations to a launch event for Windows 7, which will take place on Monday October 11th in New York. Microsoft has not yet s... [eBookNewser]

Microsoft Security Essentials: Free for Small Businesses - Posted September 23, 2010
In a busy startup environment, computer security can sometimes become an afterthought, but now there's no excuse for not protecting your machines and your network. Starting in October, Microsoft's widely ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Virtual Goods Summit West features Facebook, Microsoft, and Zynga, October 12 ... - MarketWatch (press release) - Posted September 21, 2010
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Think Mobile Goes West - Posted September 20, 2010
This Thursday, September 23, mediabistro.com and MobileContentToday will host the first Think Mobile event on the West coast. Taking place at UCSF in San Francisco, the event will focus on mobile marketing case studies, mobile video, and more. ... [PRNewser]

BP Falls Off List of Best Global Brands - Posted September 16, 2010
To no one's surprise, BP has fallen off the list of Interbrand's ... [PRNewser]

Semantifi Debuts First Search App Marketplace for the 'Deep Web' - Posted September 14, 2010
Startup Reveals the 'Invisible Web' with Semantic Search Apps that Tap the Power of Community   SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- DEMOfall 2010 -- Semantifi, Inc., a pioneer in Web Data Search, today publicly launched ... [semanticweb.com]

Last Night: Bumbershoot - PubliCola (blog) - Posted September 6, 2010
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Microsoft Employee Purchase Program - United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) - Posted August 27, 2010
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Taking Spreadsheet Data Out of the Silo Shadows - IT Business Edge (blog) - Posted August 11, 2010
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A Semantic-based Essay as the Result for a Web Search - Posted May 10, 2010
Introduction This article discusses ways of semantic processing in a search engine. Major search engines have one main type of result – a list of links to matching Web sources. There are many enhancements on top of it, but the core premise remains the same: a search result consists of a set... [semanticweb.com]

A Giant Whooshing Sound - Posted April 21, 2010
Did you hear that sound this week? The giant whooshing sound? There was a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Semantic Web academics, implementors and enthusiasts sighed in unison and their critics were silenced. I believe something wonderful has happened. With apologies to Mr. Lucas, I don't think that... [semanticweb.com]

A Possible Friendship Between Apple and Microsoft - Softpedia - Posted March 10, 2010
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Could Google Become the Semantic Web? - Posted February 21, 2010
"Describing the Semantic Web as a “Web of data” is not too helpful for most people, I have learned."  There’s a lot of talk about it, but for most Web users, the idea described in 1981 by Tim Berners-Lee means little. A number of experts and forward thinking companies do care though,... [semanticweb.com]

Yahoo Tools Fate Undecided in Wake of Search Deal with Microsoft - eWeek - Posted February 19, 2010
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Cognition's Semantic Technology Contributes to Microsoft's Bing - PR Web (press release) - Posted February 17, 2010
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Life in the Cloud: Windows Azure Is Released - Netbook Boards - Posted February 4, 2010
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Microsoft talks up semantic search ambitions - San Francisco Chronicle - Posted January 27, 2010
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Bing: What Could Search Do Better? - Mediapost.com - Posted January 25, 2010
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Microsoft Finds A Chink in Google's Armor Named News Corp. - Posted November 23, 2009
Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch announced that he would be taking content from his News Corp entities like The Wall ... [FishbowlNY]

Microsoft live labs introduces Pivot visual search - Neowin - Posted November 18, 2009
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Microsoft's Bing becomes Wolfram|Alpha API Customer - Posted November 11, 2009
Microsoft and Wolfram|Alpha both announced today (via their blogs) that Microsoft's Bing decision engine is one of the first Wolfram|Alpha Webservice API customers.   From Wolfram's site..."Starting today, Wolfram|Alpha's knowledge, computed from expertly curated data, will enrich Bing's results in select areas across nutrition, health, and advanced mathematics."  The full post can be found... [semanticweb.com]

Microsoft Bing search engine review, something old or something new? - Ecommerce Journal - Posted October 14, 2009
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Microsoft's Windows 7 Video: What Went Wrong? - Posted October 12, 2009
Microsoft is gearing up for the ... [PRNewser]

Microsoft Gets Into Social Media Monitoring Business - Posted September 23, 2009
Microsoft will unveil Looking Glass today, its first offering in the crowded social media monitoring space. Looking Glass is not yet available to the public and Microsoft will begin testing it next month. Advertising Age's Abbey Klaassen explains how it will work: ... [PRNewser]

Thoughts on the Semantic Technology 2009 Conference - and the Semantic Web - Kurt Cagle - Posted June 19, 2009
There comes a point in most programmers careers where they make a startling realization. Computer programming has nothing to do with mathematics, and everything to do, ultimately, with language. It's a sobering thought. The art of computer programming largely involves the creation of and manipulation of text at the level of... [semanticweb.com]

New semantic web tag format announced - Bluhalo - Posted June 12, 2009
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Google's Schmidt dings Bing - CNET News - Posted June 9, 2009
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Two cool search start-ups: Wowd and Yebol - CNET News - Posted June 8, 2009
Two cool search start-ups: W... [semanticweb.com]

Bing overtakes Yahoo as No 2 search engine - domain-B - Posted June 6, 2009
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Microsoft's Bing Hides Its Best Features - Wired News - Posted May 28, 2009
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Search Engines Ready for Battle, but Where's the War? - PC World - Posted May 21, 2009
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Microsoft's Next-Gen Search Engine Kumo Expected Next Week - PC World - Posted May 20, 2009
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Bringing Semantic Technologies to Enterprise Data - Posted April 24, 2009
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee declared the Semantic Web ‘open for business’ in 2008, celebrating the ratification of the SPARQL query specification by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); the organisation of which he is Director. “I think we’ve got all the pieces to be able to go ahead... [semanticweb.com]

Battle of the Twitter Titans? Microsoft and Google Both Express Interest - Posted April 10, 2009
Regardless of the fact Twitter makes no money, and thus far no one has figured out a way to make money from the microblogging service that has saturated the media landscape in the past few months, everyone wants a piece (including ... [FishbowlNY]

Microsoft Finally Fixing Zune - Posted April 8, 2009
At long last, Microsoft will update its Zune players. The company's answer to the iPod, um, wasn't — 3.2 million Zunes have been sold in comparison to 200 million of the Apple device — but the computer giant... [FishbowlNY]

Kumo traffic spotted in the wild - Bigmouthmedia News - Posted April 2, 2009
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Sneak a Peek at Microsoft's Kumo Search - PC World Canada - Posted March 30, 2009
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NASA Ames CIO Blog: Why Make A Universe of Data Available To The ... - Space Ref (press release) - Posted March 25, 2009
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Microsoft Not Pursuing NYT, Thank You Very Much! - Posted March 20, 2009
Microsoft does NOT want to buy the New York Times. Got that? Not that the Times is for sale, per se -- at least to our knowledge. So perhaps the larger point ... [FishbowlNY]

Microsoft Rubs Shoulders with Open Source - SYS-CON Media - Posted March 13, 2009
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Microsoft Releases Open Ontology Tools to Enhance Scientific Research ... - PR Newswire - Posted March 11, 2009
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integration With ZoomInfo Delivers Tools ... - TMC Net - Posted March 9, 2009
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Google CEO: Search Market ... - InternetNews.com - Posted March 4, 2009
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Sneak a Peek at Microsoft's Kumo Search - PC World - Posted March 3, 2009
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Solving the Problem of Integrating Multiple Excel Spreadsheets Efficiently - Posted January 14, 2009
Executive Summary The non-obvious ‘second use’ of Excel is that of a universal data recycling bin for Organisational ‘reports’ and ‘data dumps’. Examples exist everywhere; the main reason is that it is just so convenient to do – everyone is an Excel expert when it comes to tidying up, sorting and generally... [semanticweb.com]

EXCLUSIVE: Yahoo! To Lay Off 1,500 In California on Wednesday; 200 In L.A. - Posted December 9, 2008
Yahoo!, via an email from departing CEO Jerry Yang, told its California employees that on Wednesday, as many as 1,500 employees will be tossed, inside sources confided to FBLA. ... [FishbowlLA]

Yahoo's Jerry Yang Steps Down as CEO - Posted November 18, 2008
Looks like at least one chapter of the long Yahoo soap opera has drawn to a close. Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo back in 1995 announced yeste... [FishbowlNY]

Icahn Forsakes Yahoo Shareholder's High Noon Throwdown - Posted August 1, 2008
This is no fun at all. After months of stirring up trouble and headlines (and blog posts) proxy battler Carl Icahn will not be attending the Yahoo's long anticipated annual shareholders meeting today. ... [FishbowlNY]

New Sidekick Gets Personal - Posted July 30, 2008
For the first time since Microsoft acquired the company earlier this year, Danger has unveiled a new version of its communications device, which most folks know as the Sidekick from T-Mobile... [ThinkMobile - SocialTimes.com]

Is That All There Is? Microsoft Calls it a Day on Yahoo Bid - Posted July 25, 2008
Alas. It looks like maybe, finally, Microsoft has thrown in the Yahoo towel. The last straw in the months long we-love-you, we-love-you-not dealings may have been this week's... [FishbowlNY]

Jerry Yang Speaks, er, Writes! - Posted July 17, 2008
In recent weeks most of the talk about the operatic ins and outs of the Yahoo and Microsoft relationship have centered around what proxy battler ... [FishbowlNY]

Yahoo, Microsoft and Google Take it to the Judge - Posted July 16, 2008
If only we could all take our bad relationship complaints directly to a congressional hearing. At an anti-trust hearing yesterday an exec for Microsoft — whose ... [FishbowlNY]

Icahn and Microsoft Fail to Charm Yahoo, Again - Posted July 14, 2008
It's back off-again. Over the week-end Yahoo rejected Carl Icahn and ... [FishbowlNY]

Icahn Sweet Talks Microsoft Back to the Yahoo Table - Posted July 8, 2008
We're running out of relationship metaphors to describe the on-again, off-again business dealings between Yahoo, Microsoft and more recently, ... [FishbowlNY]

Microsoft buying into Semantics - part 1 - Posted June 28, 2008
The news yesterday that Microsoft is likely buying semantic search provider Powerset had those of us in the community buzzing.  Besides the valuation per se this event provides several thoughts about the maturity of our technology, its value and its future.  What will Google do now?  This is the first question that... [semanticweb.com]

Enterprise 3.0: Semweb Commercialization Options - Posted January 16, 2008
Back when I was an industry analyst (VP, E-Business Strategies at the META Group, since acquired by Gartner), I often had to critique emerging markets.  Unlike venture capitalists, industry analysts are privy to product roadmaps from publicly-traded companies, including the industry giants (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM).  And unlike i-bankers, they are... [semanticweb.com]

Forget the Shows--Let's Watch Ads! Firebrand Launches - Posted November 27, 2007
Firebrand.com is "an online destination to view the best TV commercials", should anyone feel sad and lonely enough to do so. It's the MTV of ads! Firebrand even has CJ's (comme... [FishbowlLA]

Battlestar Galactica On The Big Screen - Posted October 26, 2007
If you're wondering why that insufferable nerd in the cubicle next to you just snorted Diet Dr. Pepper out his nose, it's because he read this press release: SCI FI CHANNEL AND MICROSOFT PARTNER TO BRING BATTLESTAR TO THE BIG SCREEN Lucky Fans Get First Look at Razor in Movie Theaters November 12 Two Wee... [FishbowlLA]

The Corporate Side of Booksigning - Posted September 12, 2007
When Kim Ricketts launched her Book Events company more than three years ago in Seattle, no one else was connecting authors with corporations like Starbucks, Microsoft and Real Networks in a formal way. Now these things are much more commonplace, but that isn't keeping Ricketts from a hectic schedule that ends... [GalleyCat]

Authors At the Workplace to Read, Not Work - Posted July 23, 2007
The SF Chronicle's Tamara Straus looks at the recent trend of publishers sending authors not to the bookstores, but to the workplace to tour. Since the fall of 2005, for example, Google has joined several large West Coast companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks and Yahoo in hosting authors for weekly, sometimes... [GalleyCat]

Red Vs. Blue--100th Episode Marks the End - Posted June 26, 2007
Red vs. Blue, the first and most famous machinima series, is going out with a surprise ending. Created by Burnie Burns and Rooster Teeth from Halo game footage, the series has run since April 2003. Wednesday is set for the final ... [FishbowlLA]

Ingram Partners with Microsoft Live Book Search - Posted June 21, 2007
The Book Standard's Kimberly Maul reports that Ingram has agreed to partner with Microsoft, providing high-volume scanning, content acquisition, metadata management and account management for publishers in Microsoft's Live Search Bo... [GalleyCat]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted April 16, 2007
Stealing Its Own Thunder: So much for understanding the media. CBS Corp. announced its "rapid evolution from an old-media titan into a powerful Internet player" with a "Rolling Thunder," a new online network that will partner with Micros... [FishbowlLA]

Google Gets Attacked on Several Fronts - Posted March 6, 2007
With the Association of American Publishers' annual meeting in full swing today, the prevailing theme is what to do about Google's plan to digitize all books ASAP. Which is why, as the Financial Times' John Gapper reports, Microsoft plans to launch a fierce attack on Google over its "cavalier" approach to... [GalleyCat]

Canadian Cartoonist Convinced Bill Gates Controls Spam, Created Dilbert and Stalks People On-line - Posted February 3, 2007
Microsoft had better watch out: Canadian cartoonist Christina Lane is wise to their sneaky ways. From the blog, Purple Planet: It doesn't take a genius to se... [FishbowlLA]