Microsoft sends Search Live
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft is taking its Live brand of communications services into the mobile handset market in the hopes of gaining a larger share of the search market.
The company announced three new products at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona today: Live Search for Windows Mobile; Live Search for Java; and Windows Live for Windows Mobile, which it has timed to coincide with the global availability of the new Windows Mobile 6 client, announced last week.
The Live Search applications are available on both Windows Mobile, as well as Java devices, and provide mobile search capabilities with a twist: end users will be able to search for business results based on their location, which means they won't have to type any text to get a list of categories of business types with address and telephone details and options for mapping.