A Microsoft account is anything you use to sign in to Hotmail, SkyDrive, or Xbox LIVE. Local SEO and local online marketing is an excellent way to help local consumers connect with your business. Those who are local are more apt to go with your...
Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a $1.8 million ruling in the first of two patent lawsuits against Google's Motorola Mobility over the use of its technology in the Xbox console.
They have tremendous reach into almost everyone's lives through Windows 8, Office and Xbox, as well as to a lesser extent, Windows Phone. The day they decided that Bing Ads (formerly known as Microsoft adCenter) had to be different from AdWords.
In a statement today, the company said that the deal would allow it to dedicate more of its resources to creating "beautiful and relevant" in-app ad experiences on Windows 8, Skype, Xbox/Kinect, Windows Phone, Bing, and MSN.
From Windows Phone to Windows 8 and even Xbox Live, the theme previously known as "Metro" brings tiles of various sizes and colors to the user experience. Bing rolled out a trio of changes this week. In addition to revamping the design of Friends...
What brands must do is reimagine the way they work and embrace natural expectations - like Coplin said his son wanted to do with a microwave to make tea after using voice recognition to operate an Xbox.
The arrangement launched with some tweeted buying opportunities, including an Xbox 360 controller for $29.99 plus tax and an Amazon Kindle Fire HD for $149.99 plus tax. American Express is working with Twitter on a payment system that will let...
Xbox, tablets and similar devices are bringing gesture to search changing the way the audience searches. For search marketers in 2013, the message today at Covario’s INFLECTIONPoint conference was clear: know your audience, use all your channels...
XBOX owners all know what the red ring of death is and they know what it means to unlock achievements. Achievement Unlocked: Red Ring of Death T-shirt: XBOX It is that time of year again, the holidays are here.
Bing's argument is that its results will be faster and more accurate and is willing to give people a free Xbox or equivalent hardware prize if it is proven wrong. Microsoft is using the fine levied against Google for its Safari privacy gaffe to...
Xbox Live A new initiative from 20th Century Fox called The Digital HD project is bringing over 600 new movie and TV titles to users of Google Play and YouTube, among others. Today you can buy Fox’s new release 'Prometheus' in HD, available three...
If we consider Microsoft's reach onto the desktop and through the Xbox console, they have access to a large percentage of searchers – they just haven't been able to win their hearts and minds … yet. When Bing first launched it was, in no uncertain...
But Can You win an Xbox? If the people on the street chose Google, they'd win an Xbox. The sweepstakes offers many prizes, including a Microsoft Surface tablet, Xbox 360 with Kinect, Windows Phones and more, just by tweeting.
Microsoft’s other applications are for .azure, .hotmail, .microsoft, .office, .skydrive, .skype, .windows, and .xbox. ICANN today revealed its big list of applicants for 1,930 new generic top-level domains.
It wasn’t clear at the time (and still isn’t) to which Microsoft product Ballmer was referring, though it could have been their TellMe voice integration for Windows, XBox and Windows Phone. As Google strives to bring actual knowledge into search...
But it honestly doesn’t hold up upon closer inspection, especially considering Microsoft has its own privacy policy and, oddly, one Windows Live ID for multiple Microsoft services as Hotmail, Messenger, and Xbox Live.
Competitors will be driven to raise the bar with voice search integration in Android as well as auto, television, and gaming systems like the Xbox. I guess I'm playing right into the cliché. However instead of looking back at "best of" fodder, I...
In what they are calling the "future of entertainment search," Microsoft has announced Bing on Xbox, a new way to search your TV's guide for shows and movies, spanning broadcast TV, movie services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go, even apps and Xbox...
Xbox Bing has released a list of the top searches in 2011. Bing's recap, while far more comprehensive than the 2010 edition, mainly focuses on entertainment and celebrities. In that sense, Bing’s top searches lists do serve as a sort of barometer...
Yet, when asked whether Microsoft has “decided to punt” on the social space, or if they would surprise us at some point, Ballmer pointed to Xbox Live, with its 50 million users, and Skype as highly social initiatives.
