Windows Live Mobile Search hits V2
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Blog: Today, Microsoft released a new version of their Windows Live Mobile Search application.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft announced some new Windows Live applications for mobile phones on Monday, including programs that offer search and mapping capabilities.
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Microsoft launched the second beta release of MSN Search with little fanfare. There is no doubt it is good, but few consider it as a threat to Google for sometime to come.
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Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search.
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TechWeb - The glitch occurred when Microsoft updated the Windows Desktop Search tool for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP 1+.
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Microsoft on Tuesday expanded the capabilities of its Windows Live ID service by adding support for single sign-on for its Windows Live services and making it possible for users to sign up for an ID from a mobile device.Microsoft executives posted the updates to Windows Live on separate blog entries. Windows Live ID is the gateway to Microsoft&#39;s Windows Live services, which include e-mail, instant messaging, blog hosting, and security.Users with multiple sign-ons for various Windows Live services can now unify them through one ID and password, according to a blog entry from Jeff Steinbok, a member of Microsoft&#39;s Live Spaces development team (sign-in required). To set this up, users can go to the Windows Live account site and look for the section called Linked Windows Live IDs. A user can add IDs to a single &quot;linked&quot; ID and password so that they need to sign in only once to use various Windows Live services.Microsoft also is giving users the ability to sign up for a Windows Live ID from mobile devices, according to a Windows Live Spaces blog post by Phil Holden, director of online services (sign-in required). In his post, he wrote that Microsoft designed to work with built-in mobile phone browsers and users only need a data plan from a mobile carrier to get started.To sign up for a Windows Live ID from a mobile phone, users have two options they can use directly from their mobile browser, according to Holden. They can go directly to the Windows Live account-creation site or go to mobile.live.com&#160;and find a Windows Live service, such as Hotmail, and select &quot;Get a Windows Live ID.&quot;Microsoft is trying to make its Windows Live services more appealing and widely accessible to users as it competes with Google and Yahoo to provide Web-based services to businesses and consumers. On Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized how mobile devices are key to Microsoft&#39;s services strategy, in comments made during a keynote at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference in San Francisco. Overall, Microsoft hopes its online services will fuel its strategy to earn more revenue through online advertising linked to those services.
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Trend Micro Mobile Security Version 1.0 provides antivirus and antispam software for mobile phones running the Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian Ltd. operating systems.
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Improved search, security and integration with Windows Live are in the update to the cell phone OS, set for a spring release.
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The world's top handset maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) said on Thursday it has agreed with Microsoft   to integrate Live Search capabilities into Nokia's  Mobile Search.
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Wireless users can query the search site via text messages.
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The MSN Toolbar Suite Beta rounds out Microsoft&#39;s MSN search family with fully indexed searching of local documents and e-mails.
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Microsoft Corp has officially muscled into the search engine market by launching its Windows Live Search after just seven months in beta.  The company's new search portal boasts several new features, including updated image and local search, related search and an updated user interface.
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InfoWorld - Fast Search &amp; Transfer&#160;and InfoSpace&#160;have expanded the scope of a years-long collaboration in mobile search, aiming to improve the technology they offer to carriers and end users.
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Microsoft announced its free Live Search 411 service, a directory assistance line with more features than the average local directory listing.
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(InfoWorld) - Starting on Tuesday, when Sprint Nextel customers use the search bar in their phone browsers the results will automatically incorporate the users' location. Some customers will also be able to use voice commands to conduct searches. The capabilities are an extension of aÂ relationship that Microsoft and Sprint formedÂ late last year that initially involved including Microsoft's Live Search in the browser on Sprint phones. Microsoft is now adding automatic location detection to search results so users won't have to input their zip codes in their phones before getting local search results. Search results will include results from the Web, the phone and local information such as maps. Most recent Sprint phones include location-finding capabilities. In addition, users of five of Sprint's high-end phones will be able to download a client that will let them use voice commands to conduct searches. Once they have the application, users press the talk button on the phone to speak a search term. If the search is for a local business, for example, the results will include directions, the ability to press a button to call the business and the option to send directions to the place to a friend via text message. Sprint users of the Samsung a900, Samsung a920, Motorola Razr, Sanyo 840 and LG 550 phones will be able to download the voice search client. The application is based on technology from Tellme, the speech recognition company that Microsoft bought earlier this year. The services are not exclusive so they could become available via other operators in the future, said Phil Holden, director of mobile services at Microsoft. While other similar services are available to mobile users, this location-based search offering is more apt to be used because it comes built into the phones, Holden said. Earlier this year Ask.com came out with an applications that phone users could download and use to combine search with location information. In August, Nuance Communications began offering a service for BlackBerry users that lets users search and get driving directions using voice commands. Microsoft rivalÂ Google offers a mobile serviceÂ that automatically combines maps searches with a user's location. It's available for download on certain phones with location capabilities. Microsoft earns revenue from such offerings in two ways, Holden said. Microsoft shares in the revenue stream from the data services offered by operators and also from advertising, he said. The software giant hopes that it will be able to deliver more targeted advertising along with services like these that offer local search results.
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Google has launched its download Maps application for Windows Mobile phones/PDAs. From the Google Blog: &#8220;Like other versions of Google Maps for mobile, with this Windows Mobile version you can find businesses and see real-time traffic updates, along with unique features like contacts integration, GPS support, draggable maps, and tap and hold menus.&#8221; This is the same [...]
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Microsoft announced the next version of Windows Mobile, which will include more e-mail and messaging capabilities and additional security.