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Microsoft In Mobile Search Deal With Verizon
An anonymous reader writes "Verizon Wireless will forge a deal with Microsoft to include the software giant's Live Search on its mobile phones, giving Microsoft a victory over rival Google and ending a months-long dance toward the partnership. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce the deal in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas." InfoWorld notes that Microsoft is rumored to be changing the name of its Live Search service to Kumo, which is Japanese for "cloud."
It'd be interesting to see how all of this plays out.
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They should name it "bukakke" because the search results would just keep pourin' in!
And also because using MS is humiliating.
Cloud?! Will the marketroids PLEASE stop referring to the Internet and everything else in it as a 'cloud'!
Thank you. That is all.
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...I'm glad my Verizon contract is up.
I don't really care as I'm in the (apparently shrinking) pool of people who only use my cell phone to make and receive phone calls.
Does anybody know what happened to Verizon's much touted plan to provide open access? Funny how we haven't heard anything about that lately isn't it? If I was a cynical person I might assume that they only made that announcement to forestall efforts to impose an open network via the regulatory structure.....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Last month, I had a broken Verizon phone and a year left on my contract. I really wanted an Android-based phone as a replacement, but I figured that would happen later rather than sooner with Verizon given how they like to take their time qualifying new phones (i.e. removing features), so I paid the early termination fee to jump-ship to T-Mobile. With this agreement, it seems even less likely we'll see an Android phone on their network. Even if we did, it'd be amusing to see how they'd try to make MS Live Search the default search engine for it.
"...today consumers have been conditioned to think of beer when they see a bullfrog..."
"kumo" can also mean "spider"
Isn't that, like, almost the name of the Steven King movie? The one wih the rabid dog?
No no no. You're thinking of Carrie.
This guy's the limit!
"Please enter a search term to pay for the next ten minutes. The search results and limited advertising will be randomly inserted during awkward pauses in your conversation."
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Except of course that Verizon charges and arm and a leg for unlimited data, so Microsoft just spent millions on making sure about 114 people will get their search engine as the default.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
You are trying to switch your search engine to Google? [Cancel] or [Allow] Allow
Are you sure? [Cancel] or [Allow] Allow
Please hold while we connect you a Verizon Service Representative [Cancel] or [Allow] Allow
"Hello this is Tom? How can I help you?"
Can you hear the representative now? [Yes] or [No] Yes
"Yes, I'd like to change the search engine on me phone."
Can you hear him now? [Yes] or [No]
"For the love of God, yes!"
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.