Microsoft to Data-Mine Facebook & Twitter

Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook updates will be searched by Bing, however, [...]

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Report: Wolfram Alpha to offer API for data feeds

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Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine” developed by Mathematica, will soon allow its dynamic search results to be queried and mashed up in a variety of new ways.
According to the Guardian, Wolfram will be opening its curated data to be queried via an application programming interface, or API. Currently, you [...]

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Bing strikes licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha

Bing will start using Wolfram Alpha’s data in search results following a licensing deal.
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Microsoft’s Bing search engine is getting a little help from a very smart friend.
Wolfram Alpha and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialized scientific and computational content that Wolfram Alpha [...]

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Get a free domain name and hosting from Microsoft

A free Web site and hosting from Microsoft? It’s true.
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The words “free” and “Microsoft” don’t often appear in the same sentence, so imagine my surprise at discovering this deal: a free custom domain name, free Web hosting, free e-mail accounts, and more.
As you might expect from the name, Microsoft Office Live Basics has a [...]

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Share big files online with these services

Transferring a large file isn’t always easy. When e-mail won’t work (which it often doesn’t for files of any heft), you can burn to a disc or send a file piecemeal, but neither option provides much value to the person who just needs your file now, and simply.
Online file-sharing services can transfer large files [...]

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Windows Azure: Blue skies ahead?

LOS ANGELES–Analysts and enthusiasts offered largely positive reaction to Microsoft’s announcement of Windows Azure on Monday, impressed at the scale of Microsoft’s bet on the cloud.
“I think it is very ambitious, extremely ambitious,” said Gartner analyst David Smith. He noted that Microsoft is trying to span a broad range of audiences, from enterprise to consumer, [...]

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