Xbox360 Core Price Drop In UK
Yesterday the Xbox360 Core pack received an official price drop of £10 in United Kingdom, and now costs £199.
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27.8.2006 Microsoft launches new Xbox360 Elite bundle with 2 gold games
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY AND FINISH THE FIGHT WITH THE XBOX 360 GAME OF THE YEAR BUNDLE
For a Limited Time, Get “Fable II” and “Halo 3” with Xbox 360 Elite.
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20.4.2009 Microsoft makes Xbox360 price drop official, announces 60GB sku
The worst kept secret just before the E3 show, is now official: Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck.
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14.7.2008 MSN Search and Windows Desktop Search Tips & Tricks
Brandon Paddock and Andy Edmonds (Windows Desktop Search team) have sent the word to let us know they're both hosting a 1-hour MSDN Webcast at 1pm (Pacific time, 9PM GMT) today.
They'll be discussing tips, tricks, and hacks for MSN Search and for Windows Desktop Search.
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9.12.2005 Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
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19.12.2007 Windows Vista Search Kills Google Search
Has Microsoft finally gained the upper hand over Google with the launch of Windows Vista? Is this the last we will see of Google search, as the Redmond Company's latest operating system
will be increasingly adopted eroding the market supremacy of Windows XP?
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18.2.2007 Rapidshare Search Engines to Search, Find and Download Files from RapidShare
Since 2nd of July, RapidShare has removed its download limits and captchas for free user. This means that we can continue downloading files from rapidshare without waiting for an hour when we’ve just downloaded a file.
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15.7.2008 Coders, Search For Code With Google Code Search
Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with
Google Code Search.
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5.10.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Microsoft looks for better way to search the Net
Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess.
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7.3.2007 Microsoft: Use our search and we'll pay you
Microsoft is offering to pay corporations if they get their employees to use Live Search at work, the company confirmed on Friday.
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17.3.2007 Who uses MS Live Search?
". . . it’s mostly people that are searching for files on their own hard drive who accidentally click the ’search the net’ button."
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3.4.2008 Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search.
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6.1.2009 Microsofts new search...Yahoo?
Microsoft quietly registered a limited liability company (LLC) last week, which points to the company being poised to make an acquisition or joint venture.
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27.5.2009 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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Spybot Search and Destroy v1.3
Search your hard disk for so-called spybots or adbots, the modules that are responsible for showing ads and transmitting information back to vendors. If Spybot Search and Destroy finds such modules, it will remove them or replace them with empty dummies. In most cases, the host software still runs after removing the bot. Among the adbots Spybot targets: Aureate, CLPRS, Comet Cursors, eZula HotText, Gator, GoHip, Radiate, WebHancer, and WildTangent.
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Windows Live to get Product Search
After posting about Windows Live Academic Search last week, yet another new search product has entered our radar. This time it's Windows Live Product Search, and like its cousins Image Search and Feed Search, it too will be integrated into the standard Windows Live Search service.
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11.4.2006 Microsoft Shoots for Photo Search
Microsoft this week revealed that it is at work on a way to search the Internet using photos captured by cell phone cameras.
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17.4.2006 Vista Search Seems Fair, Regulators Say
The U.S. government has given its thumbs-up to Microsoft's search box plans for Vista, shrugging off concerns raised recently by Google.
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14.5.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Spybot - Search and Destroy 1.5 Beta
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
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16.6.2007 Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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5.9.2007 Windows Live Search 2.0 is Coming!!
As reported by LiveSide, and Softpedia News, Microsoft is holding a three-hour “Searchification” event at its Silicon Valley campus on September 26 that seems like it will be the launch pad for the next version of Microsoft’s Live Search service.
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11.9.2007 New Live Search Homepage Launches
The new homepage for Windows Live Search, which LiveSide told us was coming last week, has gone live, a whole week before the Searchification event.
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19.9.2007 Microsoft leaks its own search plans
A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event next week where the company was slated to unveil the changes to reporters.
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21.9.2007 3 New Search Projects from Microsoft Research
At TechFest, Microsoft Research unveiled three new search projects aimed to enhance your search experience. Here are the details:
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10.3.2008 Windows Search 4.0 Preview (KB940157)
WS4 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WS4 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer.
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29.3.2008 Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 RC1
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
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1.7.2008Xinput Driver for Microsoft
Common Controller (64 Bit)
The Microsoft Common
Controller Driver is a new
game input
standard that
is used for both the Xbox360
console and for
Windows XP
SP1 and above.
The Xbox360
controller or any controllers
that utilize this
standard
will enable the device to be
used on Windows also.
This
Redistributable Package
includes the driver for
hardware
vendors to
redistribute with their
hardware. For the most
current APIs of the
Microsoft Common Controller,
please
download the latest
DX SDK. These APIs are called
Xinput
APIs. Source and
Download: Xinput Driver for
Microsoft
Common
Controller (64 Bit)..
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07.06.2006Yahoo Unveils 'Build Your
Own' Search
Yahoo on Monday released a
Search Builder tool for
creating customized search
engines based on a select
group of Web sites or specific
search parameters. The new
service is designed to compete
with personal search upstarts
including Eurekster and
Rollyo...
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09.08.2006Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search: Windows Vista included the enhanced desktop search feature which helps users
to readily locate files, e-mail messages, and other items on their PC . With the release of Windows Search 4.0, the performance of the search tool
improved while adding much-needed manageability features for IT. Windows 7 along with the desktop search, introduces Federated Search in which the
scope of the search goes beyond your PC. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS
format.
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06.01.2009Big search company shakeups at Ask.com, Microsoft
As the stakes slide higher in the search technology game, Ask.com's CEO is now leaving that search firm company, just days after Microsoft made a
$1.2 billion bid for troubled search software firm Fast Search & Transfer...
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12.01.2008New search site - Imagine Live Search
A new Live Search site
was brought to our attention
recently (thanks Jamie),
http://search.imagine-liv
e.com/. What's obviously
different is the sparse
homepage, notably the lack of
vertical search options, which
directs the users focus to the
search box and nothing
else.
Diving
in further, search results are
different too. There are no
vertical search options
present under the search box,
however they appear in the
right hand column with
suggested results
pre-populated. Users can see
the results from these other
search options alongside the
main web search results,
allowing users to quickly
refine their query as they
become more aware of what each
search option offers them.
While the related
searches option is already
present on the main Live
Search site, the addition of
Image Search and News Search
is a nice touch. The great
part is that Windows Live Maps
is embedded, auto-detecting
your location and presenting
local search results based on
your query. ..
winbeta.org - 18.05.2007
MySpace Puts Search on Auction
Block
News Corp. said Tuesday that
it plans to call for bids from
search giants Microsoft, Yahoo
and Google to provide Internet
search functionality and
search-based advertising on
the popular social networking
site...
betanews.com - 14.06.2006
Xbox 360 to get new HD DVD drive next year
PC World UK is reporting that Microsoft plans to launch an updated HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 in 2008. The announcement was made in London by Mark Bennett,
Microsoft's European business development director for HD DVD.
The original Xbox360 HD DVD drive, launched in November 2006, is
fully compatible with Windows Vista and currently sells for $179.99 after a $20 price drop last month. Additionally, any purchases made between August
1st and September 30th will include five free HD DVD movies. Details on the new HD DVD drive are scarce at the moment; perhaps theyll include a video
and audio decoder chip to lessen the burden on the console.
winbeta.org - 21.09.2007
Live Search autosuggestions come to Firefox
The Live Search team today announced that they have officially integrated Live Search into Firefox by popular demand. Microsoft has released a Firefox
addon to get to your results faster via Microsoft Live Search auto suggestions. The addon is available for download here. The addon is based on the
Open Search standard and uses the JSON interface supported by Firefox to retrieve autosuggestions. Microsoft has been integrating Open Search into
their products recently - the most recent one being the Federated Search in Windows 7. Open Search has also been implemented in Internet Explorer 7(&
above) and SharePoint Search.
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neowin.net - 30.01.2009
New WebGuide 4.1 beta brings Xbox360 streaming support, "Prism" multi-system interface
In addition to the capacity to
stream DVDs, which was
featured in the previous beta
of 4.1, WebGuide
boasts two new features a
Media Center add-in and the
"WebGuide Prism"
multi-system interface.
winbeta.org - 06.06.2007
Like.com Visual Search Engine Debuts
Search company Riya, which has
been developing facial
recognition technology for
locating individuals in
photographs, has spun off its
image search technology onto a
site called Like.com. The
service enables users to
search for images by
appearance - not just text
keywords...
betanews.com - 08.11.2006
Google Launches New Blog
Search Tool
Search giant now offers way to
search online journals...
pcworld.com - 15.09.2005
Ask.com v. 11 tries new search technologies
After some re-organization in parent company IAC, perennial runner-up search engine Ask.com today announced it had also re-organized its search
technology...
betanews.com - 07.10.2008
Microsoft Uses Silverlight to Spiff Up Search
Microsoft has unveiled a application that combines its Silverlight technology with Windows Live Search, code-named "Tafiti." The name means
"to search" in Swahili. It integrates the various types of Live Search, and allows users to store and share search results by placing them on
"shelves."..
betanews.com - 22.08.2007
Amazon Nearly Exits Search Business
Amazon all but exited the
search business over the
weekend, stripping features
from its site and turning to
other providers for search
functionality. As of last
week, the site was ranked 83rd
among U.S. search sites...
betanews.com - 04.10.2006
Microsoft, Sprint Debut GPS-Aware Search
Microsoft and Sprint expanded their partnership on Tuesday, with the carrier debuting integrated GPS and search functionality using Live Search, as
well as voice search through Tellme...
betanews.com - 18.09.2007
New Google Site Search lets Web sites shape search results
Tuesday, Google launched Site Search, a rebranded overhaul of "Google Custom Search Business Edition" that gives Web site owners tools to
influence the search results that appear on their sites' custom search pages...
betanews.com - 04.06.2008
Yahoo Search Gets Instant
Answers
Yahoo on Thursday unveiled a
new beta feature on its Web
search that checks to see if
there is a single, relevant
result to a query and pops up
the answer in a "search
bubble" using advanced
AJAX scripting. For example,
weather information or recent
news headlines can be
displayed instantly without
submitting a search...
betanews.com - 15.09.2005
What's Next From Google? Perhaps Reader Search, Hosted Google Enterprise
Google is pushing search in
new directions with universal
search and personalization.
It's the leader in Web search
by a large margin, and
doesn't look to give up its
crown anytime soon. And the
company has more search tricks
up its sleeves, including
Google Reader search and
potentially a hosted
enterprise search product.
Google
Reader, the company's
syndicated newsreader, is
search-less today, despite
significant demand for the
ability to search through news
feeds and other RSS
subscriptions. A few hacks to
search through Google Reader
feeds have even popped up on
the Internet. The Google
Reader team "gets the
message," according to Google
software engineer Matt Cutts,
and Google Reader search is
one of the top priorities on
the team's list.
Today, Google's
enterprise search product is a
piece of integrated hardware
and software. Tomorrow, it
could well be a hosted
service, if and when Google
figures out a model that
properly maintains the privacy
of corporate documents. The
beginnings of this are already
there: Google recently
released its Custom Search
Engine Business Edition, an
ad-free, $100 per year and up
service to search corporate
Web sites. ..
winbeta.org - 07.08.2007
Europe to become the center of Microsoft's search research efforts
It failed to acquire Yahoo's search business -- or at least that's what Yahoo has said. So now Microsoft has to rely on its own resources to come up
with a plan for moving forward in search; and to do that, it's setting up a second laboratory...
betanews.com - 17.06.2008
Google's MP3 search engine debuts in China
Confirming about six months of speculation, the search giant said Wednesday it had launched a music search feature on its Chinese site with partner
Top100.cn...
betanews.com - 07.08.2008
