Microsoft's MSN China site to launch jobs channel
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Microsoft Corp.'s  online  portal MSN.com will launch a China job search service this year  to attract young netizens in the world's second-largest Web  market, a company spokesman said on Monday.
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Company hopes that the rival to Apple's iTunes will make draw visitors to MSN website.
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MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s  Web  portal, said on Tuesday it will make a big push to stream live  concerts to its users after signing an exclusive global  partnership with Control Room, the company behind the web  broadcast of last year's Live 8 event.
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A Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O spin-off on   Tuesday said it will take on Internet social networks   MySpace.com and Facebook.com, touting tools users can buy to   craft better-looking Web pages.
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By JOE McDONALD  BEIJING - Microsoft Corp. and a major Chinese TV set maker announced Monday they will jointly develop entertainment products linking television and the Internet, joining a race to profit from the Web's growing status as a channel to distribute movies and other programs.
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MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s Web portal,   said on Tuesday it will make a big push to stream live concerts   to its users after signing an exclusive global partnership with   Control Room, the company behind the web broadcast of last   year's Live 8 event.
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China's Baidu.com Inc. will sell  advertising for MSN and other Web sites operated by Microsoft  Corp. in China under a strategic alliance announced by the  companies on Thursday.
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New Microsoft program smoothes transition from Chinese to English.
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Microsoft&#39;s MSN division is planning to make an announcement today related to online-search technology, giving rise to expectations that the company will begin offering its own Internet search engine tomorrow.
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The MSN Music site, now in public preview and set for its full-featured debut in mid-October, instantly makes Microsoft a major player in the field, although the store has a decidedly me-too feel about it right now.
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A Microsoft Corp. spin-off on Tuesday  said it will take on Internet social networks MySpace.com and  Facebook.com, touting tools users can buy to craft  better-looking Web pages.
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(InfoWorld) - China Mobile Communications, the country's largest mobile operator, will soon offer Microsoft's push e-mail service to its subscribers, the two companies said Monday. The Push Mail service will start operation in mid-December, giving subscribers who use mobile devices running Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 software the ability to send and receive e-mail, the companies said on the opening day of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) Telecom World 2006 exhibition and conference in Hong Kong. Pricing for the service was not announced. In addition to Microsoft's push e-mail service, China Mobile alreadyÂ offers Research In Motion's rival BlackBerryÂ push e-mail service. China Mobile offers two service plans for Research In Motion's BlackBerry in China. One plan includes 50MB of data transfer over China Mobile's GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) network for 398 renminbi ($51.76) per month. The other plan, priced at 598 renminbi per month, offers 400MB of data transfer for e-mail, including 2MB of international roaming for data access. Telecom World runs through Friday, December 8.
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HYDERABAD: Microsoft will hire several hundred new staff at its new campus here in the next year, its chief executive said on Monday -- a move aimed at strengthening its presence in the country.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft wants to play a bigger role in China's living rooms, and the company is willing to spend millions of dollars to get there. The company's latest home-entertainment moves in China include aÂ planned $12.3 million investmentÂ in Sichuan Changhong Electric. The deal, announced earlier this week, gives Microsoft a small stake in one of China's largest TV makers, which in turn agreed to develop TVs and other products able to link with the Internet. "Microsoft and Changhong have partnered in exploring the use of digital media technologies to benefit the consumers for a better in-home networked digital entertainment experience," Microsoft said Friday in an e-mail statement. Its investment is intended to build goodwill, rather than bring a specific product to market. "The investment is more like a gesture of saying, 'We're friends strategically,'" said Jason Yin, managing director at In-Stat China. Critics have compared the Changhong deal to Venus, an ill-fated project launched in 1999 to develop Windows CE set-top boxes for the Chinese market. But that's not an accurate comparison. "It's very different," Yin said. Unlike Venus, Microsoft isn't trying to bring a new piece of hardware to market. Current versions of Windows are capable of connecting a TV with the Internet, and these types of systems are already available in China. Changhong's own M10 Living Room Entertainment Center is an example. Based on Windows XP Media Center Edition, the M10 is designed to connect with a television and comes with a remote control and wireless keyboard, allowing users to access music, videos and the Internet from a couch instead of a desk. Changhong also offers other consumer products that connect to the Internet. For instance, it sells a 32-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) television with a camera that can be used for Internet video calls. And the company has worked with China Telecommunications Group Corp., one of the country's two major fixed-line operators, to sell IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) set-top boxes. Microsoft hopes closer ties with Changhong will strengthen the channel through which its home-entertainment software reaches Chinese consumers. Those products include Windows Media Center and Mediaroom, the company's IPTV software. "Microsoft now has a better understanding of the value of local partners in penetrating China's market," Yin said, citing the example of Xiamen Amoi Electronics, which develops and sells Windows Mobile smart phones in China. Whether Microsoft's small investment in Changhong yields the desired result remains to be seen. In past years, the company used investments to build closer relationships with Chinese partners to varying degrees of success. "The investment doesn't always mean they get what they want," Yin said. The Changhong investment is just one part of Microsoft's home-entertainment push in China, and the company continues to seek out new deals and alliances. On Thursday, Microsoft signed an agreement with Shanghai Media Group (SMG), the country's second-largest media company. Under the terms of that deal, SMG will use Microsoft products across its new-media division, which includes Internet video, IPTV and mobile television. The partners hope their combined strengths in software and content will convince more companies to join them. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Â
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN division on Thursday will launch a public beta of its Web search technology, according to sources familiar with the plans.
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Will it sell? That's the 40,875,000 rupee question Microsoft plans to sell a PC for kids and launch an educational channel on its MSN portal in India as the next step in a worldwide "Unlimited Potential" program.â¦
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Microsoft Corp. plans to officially  launch on Tuesday its new Windows Live Search engine, a pillar  in its strategy to topple market leader Google and wrestle away  billions of dollars worth of online advertising.