Microsoft's wireless push takes flight as its large stable of MSN Web services, such Hotmail and Expedia, becomes available on wireless phones and handheld devices.
Microsoft also is wooing 25 million daily visitors to its free Web site at MSN.com, hoping to entice some of them to become paying customers of its Internet access service.
Web sites like MSN Money, CNN Money, Bankrate.com, and a host of others have budget calculators you can plug into to help you determine how much of your income you spend on housing, transportation, child care, food, and other necessities.
National Semiconductor and Microsoft in a joint announcement here said that several vendors, including Taiwan's Acer, Thomson Multimedia and Vestel USA, are also readying so-called MSN-based Web Companions designed around the WebPad reference platform.
Gail Berman (American Idol, 24) and Lloyd Braun (Lost) are the pair of Hollywood heavyweights behind BermanBraun, the 3 year old production company behind a suite of popular MSN-partnered web sites, including Wonderwall and Glo.
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In June 7.7 million people checked Wikipedia, according to Nielsen NetRatings, beating out MSN Encarta to become the Web's top research site.
MSN's new "Everyday Web" theme stresses personalized information and Web-based utilities such as Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service, not mass-market content.
Bebo users will be granted access to new episodes first but video will be quickly released on YouTube, MSN and the "Lonelygirl15" Web site.
They were heavily influenced by the success of FoxSports, a once unexceptional Web site, after it cut a deal for prominent placement on Microsoft's msn network--and then saw traffic leap from 2.2 million to 10.4 million visitors per month.
The Web version will likely also simultaneously launch on popular game portals like RealArcade, pogo.com and MSN Games.
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And as with Lookout, the results of an MSN search are displayed in a window that looks a lot more like a mail client than a Web browser.
And while Microsoft currently offers digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access in conjunction with its MSN online service, it needs a cable modem offering to drive more traffic to all of its Web properties.
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