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Bing Silverlight Control with the Bing Web Service Application

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 Posted in .Net, C#, Silverlight | 2 Comments »

After reading Carl Dickinson's post on Mando Group Labs about the Bing Silverlight Control, I wanted to give it a try myself. I decided to set about using the Bing Silverlight control to display available hotels from LateRooms.com.  LateRooms.com have an ...

Microsoft and Yahoo join forces to tackle Google

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in SEO, microsoft | No Comments »

Well, it's been a long time coming, but it has finally happened.....Microsoft and Yahoo have teamed up in the search and web advertising arena. After several take-over offers from Microsoft were refused by Yahoo over the last year, the final deal that has ...

Microsoft bouncing back? …. Windows 7, Bing, Windows Mobile 7

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Internet Explorer, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, microsoft | 5 Comments »

Microsoft have gone through the ringer in recent times.  They have had the relative failure of Windows Vista (which I have to say I thought was ok), the rise of the IPhone and other Windows Mobile competitors, the dominance of ...