msn in comment and analysis
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Flake is responsible for "setting the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and commercial search efforts," according to Microsoft. It's not that Bill Gates has an inflated sense of his own importance. [24 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment MSN, Ask, AltaVista and Yandex. Written at home on a wet evening and dispatched to silicon.com via personal LAN. Over the past few years I must have seen a dozen new search engines claiming to be the answer to a maiden's prayer. [31 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.08.07
Round-Up The publisher's legal team has had the bare-faced cheek to file the case in the US District Court in California and is essentially peeved that MSN's search engine is generating thumbnails of its online nudie content and linking to the full-size... [17 Aug 2007]
Analysis: Making web 2.0 pay
Comment But analysts and entrepreneurs expect Google and competitors such as AOL, Microsoft's MSN unit and Yahoo! There's been a boom in so-called web 2.0 companies and Google et al have been scooping up a raft of innovative start-ups but, while no one... [14 Mar 2006]
Radioactive: Is mobile IM bad for business?
Comment Users have needed to either download mobile clients of the existing public IM systems, like MSN Messenger, or use proprietary, operator-controlled IM systems. For the public IM networks - AOL, MSN, Yahoo! [21 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: The fate of AOL
Comment Clearly, both AOL and MSN appeal only to the internet users who feel they need somewhere cosy from which to view the wider world. But it would not be very surprising if AOL were to disappear into being just another part of the growing MSN umbrella. [20 Sep 2005]
Q&A: Chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates
Comment At this conference, we do give out APIs [application programming interfaces] for the MSN Search and the MSN Virtual Earth capability, so things that have been cloud-based services, you can have client applications that other services can connect to. [14 Sep 2005]
Leader: Google - good luck
Leader Google is coming from behind in this space with mature products out from AOL, MSN, Yahoo! Today's launch of Google's new IM and voice over IP client, Google Talk, may not have been a shocker (as rumours circulated earlier this week) but it holds... [24 Aug 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 today it has shut its MP3 search facility... [17 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.07.05
Round-Up While the Google version includes Apple's Cupertino headquarters the MSN version has removed it completely, perhaps fulfilling a fantasy of Bill Gates who maybe assumes his powers have now reached God-like status. [29 Jul 2005]
Leader: Microsoft's Asian front
Leader The world's most populous nation hasn't been without controversy for Microsoft of late, specifically its MSN arm but one point to take away from such stories is how hard Microsoft is trying there. The US and Europe may tussle with Microsoft in a... [21 Jun 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Who owns blogs?
Comment Or there are now huge weblog services such as MSN Spaces, where the operator of the service claims all rights to the material posted. Have you started blogging? Millions of people have, creating another angle on the disputations about intellectual... [14 Jun 2005]
Leader: Should businesses fight ethical battles?
Leader Microsoft has been accused of censoring the words 'freedom' and 'democracy' from its MSN website in China only a month after creating the web portal. The FT said the company is blocking anti-communist phrases to avoid upsetting the Chinese government. [13 Jun 2005]
Amazon reaches out beyond its border
Comment Its Inside Messenger application is based on the MSN Messenger instant messaging client and allows shoppers to query Amazon's database for particular products. Businesses are learning to use technology to collaborate not only within their... [09 Mar 2005]
Leader: Decline of Passport a privacy win
Leader Following the eBay news, Microsoft admitted it would stop seeking out new customers for Passport, though it will continue to support the service and use it across MSN and other Microsoft sites. While many of us were on holiday between Christmas and... [04 Jan 2005]
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