Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Microsoft has actually turned its online mapping product Windows Live Local into a pretty useful tool with new features for the product that it unveiled yesterday. Key enhancements include integration with Outlook XP and 2003, integration with Windows Live messenger and live traffic reports.
Integration with Outlook enables users to embed maps and directions
within the calendar. Microsoft has also used a partnership with
Traffic.com to provide users with live reports of traffic flows,
including accidents and aerial views, across 35 metropolitan locations
in the US, with plans to expand the service to cover Canada and Europe.
On top of this, users will be able to build their own database of
favoutite places complete with pictures which they can share with
friends and colleagues via instant messaging or email using the
scratchpad function. The integration with Windows Live messenger will
enable users to launch a messaging session from within the mapping
program enabling users to access the same map simultaneously.
The release of the new free service, which like it rivals is driven by
advertising, taken together with other announcements in the past two
days, Microsoft is signalling to its major rivals in the online space
that it intends to be a player not just a desktop products supplier.
Products like Windows Live Local are a good start, More of the same in
other online areas we say.
David Bass
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