Yammer, the “Twitter for the Enterprise” application that brought microblogging status updates to company employees behind the firewall, recently announced the availability of two new Yammer plugins. The plugins came to be thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Yammer via the BizSpark…

In addition to MySpace (click here for details), Windows Live will see 22 other third-party feed partners and four new contacts partners added to the service. The additions will be rolled out globally to the 500+ million Windows Live users over the course of the week. The most prominent of the…

Blogger Long Zheng spotted some interesting photos over on flickr. The photos showed the word “Microsoft” and the Windows 7 logo – or rather, a variation of it – spray painted graffiti-style on a wall somewhere in San Francisco. Windows street art? Really? Perhaps not. A couple of other photos…

This summer, in an effort to help save the struggling newspaper industry, the Newspaper Association of America asked for ideas from companies who had experience in helping online publishers monetize digital content. Among the submissions, which included ideas about content management systems…

According to the Windows Live Team blog, you’ll soon see some new features arrive in your Hotmail inbox. The updates, which are more like improvements to existing Hotmail features, include a new buddy list for when you sign into your web Messenger from within your Hotmail inbox, improvements to help…

In just a few days the annual PrimeTime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live from Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre. On Sunday, September 20th at 8 PM, American viewers can tune into CBS to watch the coverage. In the meantime, you can get all the scoop on the show thanks to Bing’s Emmy Awards “Instant…

Waze is a new mobile social application which provides maps, real-time traffic updates, and turn-by-turn navigation directions for mobile phone users. What’s interesting about this application is that it uses crowdsourcing to deliver both the map and traffic updates. When launching the app, you’ll…

You may have heard the news about Windows 7 being offered to students for the incredibly low price of $30, but if you’re like me, you were probably skeptical as to whether or not that was actually true. Believe it or not, it is! In case you missed it, the Windows Team blog confirmed this on…

The big news this week was definitely the start of the Microsoft Office Web Apps Technical Preview program. As of Thursday, September 17th, a limited number of participants received access to the new web-based version of Microsoft Office, which includes web apps for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and…

Earlier this year, we told you how you could hide your Twitter addiction at work using the SpreadTweet application which hides a Twitter interface in a client that looks just like Microsoft Excel. Recently, we uncovered yet another sneaky way to tweet at work, this time thanks to MakeUseOf. The…