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News MSN has made several entries - and several exits - from the music service business but apparently it is ready to try again. A Microsoft representative told silicon.com sister site CNET News: "In the... [14 Jul 2009]
Nokia New Year's Eve Event Uses Windows Live and MSN to Create a Deep Online Consumer Connection
White Paper Nokia combined forces with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions to bring five major New Year's Eve celebration concerts to life through creating the first multi-platform Global digital live music experience. [29 Feb 2008]
MSN Music falls silent on downloads
News Two years after opening its MSN Music store to compete with Apple's iTunes, Microsoft plans to stop selling downloads from the site. Beginning on 14 November, MSN's... [03 Nov 2006]
Ballmer gives software some SaaS
News Last year, Microsoft consolidated its Windows and developer tools divisions with the groups responsible for MSN web properties in an effort to combine on-premise software with online services. Regarding the Microsoft... [11 Oct 2006]
'Kids and IT means chaos not creativity'
News One reader pointed out: "Yes the hoodie-clothed youth-of-today is tech-savvy, in that they can text and MSN at the same time, can rip anything to an iPod, get ever-increasing hi-scores on Xbox/PS2, but that doesn't make... [28 Sep 2006]
3 signs Yahoo! to break down walled garden
News The operator also signed a deal with Microsoft in March, making MSN Messenger and Hotmail accessible through its phones. Pricing for the service is another issue that has to be resolved.has traditionally priced most of... [30 Jun 2006]
BBC online revamp embraces mobiles, podcasts and user content
News Among the other changes set to result from the Creative Future strategy is a greater emphasis on online music across all the BBC's properties - radio, TV and online. As part of the drive to become a... [26 Apr 2006]
Analysis: Making web 2.0 pay
Comment But analysts and entrepreneurs expect Google and competitors such as AOL, Microsoft's MSN unit and Yahoo! More people have high-speed internet connections, making applications such as photo, music and... [14 Mar 2006]
Gates wows Vegas with Vista keynote
News The speech, which is known as a showplace for new devices and technologies, was also the launching pad for two new cordless telephones that can download contacts from Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft's planned successor to its... [05 Jan 2006]
Apple slammed for piracy-fuelling iPod
News In addition Microsoft will promote RealNetworks' Rhapsody subscription music service on its MSN web business. In an interview following his presentation, Glaser called for the music... [06 Dec 2005]
Yahoo! desktop search is go...
News Desktop Search, released in beta in January, competes with similar products from Google and MSN. The free program searches emails, attachments, Word documents, music files, images, video, Yahoo! Yahoo! [28 Sep 2005]
Leader: Stop self-policing
Leader Microsoft, for example, has been found removing certain terms likely to anger the Chinese government from the Chinese version of MSN. MSN and Yahoo! One of China's leading portals, NetEase, announced... [17 Aug 2005]
Microsoft: Online song store to get new service
News The Microsoft MSN-branded service did not include a subscription plan at that time, focusing instead on selling individual songs online and through Windows Media Player. Christine Andrews, lead product manager for... [10 Jun 2005]
Yahoo! snaps up photo site Flickr
News Microsoft in December added a blog product for its MSN web service, called MSN Spaces. It also offers tools for sharing recommendations about places to eat, favourite movies, music and... [21 Mar 2005]
Google desktop search leaves beta era
News and Microsoft's MSN, introduced similar tools recently, but a litany of upstarts have emerged to compete for web surfers' attention. The final version, in public beta for nearly five months, now includes search... [07 Mar 2005]
