Techradar are today reporting that the MSN Video player in the UK, which currently allows UK citizens to catch up on TV and watch film trailers, has signed a deal with Paramount Studios to bring full length films to the service too; what’s more is that these films will be free. The MSN Video Player [...]

According to Search Engine Land Bing now has a 12.5% market share in the US putting it at an 8th of the market which is very good considering its not even a year old. These figures come from Neilsen who are reporting that in February Bing’s share rose by 15% from January of this year [...]

In my continued testing of the new BBC homepage design I have found a new module call Topic Tracker, this module is actually a concise version of a new site feature called Flow. The idea of Topic Tracker and Flow is to show the reader all the latest information about a specified topic, whether it [...]

MSN have just launched their Video Player Service in the UK it has a much nicer interface than the beta version of the service and borrows some features form the Bing Video player such as “Dim Lights”. The service is aiming to be a hub for all Microsoft’s MSN videos too with links to MSN’s own [...]

When news came out that Microsoft UK was readying ads with the first being about directions to Euston Station the steakdigital.co.uk blog was quick to note that Bing didn’t really do well at providing directions to the station, as seen below. However today, following the airing of Bing’s first UK TV ads, when I did [...]

As I posted yesterday Microsoft UK is giving Bing a lot of media coverage as witnessed here with its first TV ad in the UK. I think it gets the message across and in a some what humorous way. You can now download the advert if you want from MML’s Windows Live Group. Windows Live [...]

The BBC is perhaps the site I visit the most, its my homepage and I always have a least one tab open with the BBC all the time, so for me its exciting to see they are testing out a new home page design. At first glance the new page seems to address some of [...]

The Guardian are reporting that Microsoft UK are launching its video on demand service for the UK today which will include over 1000 hours of programmes and includes several media partners such as BBC Worldwide. Some of the programmes to be included on the service will be Peep Show, The Young Ones, Shameless and Midsomer [...]

As some of you may know I was at Microsoft’s London offices yesterday and was pleased to see so many Bing stickers and banners throughout the building. Then when I got back to my flat I saw several article stating that Microsoft will be advertising Bing in a big way in the UK on the [...]

Neowin are reporting that Internet Explorer 8 in the UK has just kicked off an advertising campaign and its probably no coincidence that the EU browser ballot has only just started to be rolled out to all EU member states. It actually appears as though that this campaign started on Monday with IE’s blog for the [...]