January, 2011

Experian: Bing increases 5% in December: is Google feeling some heat?

david-and-goliath1Last fall Google CEO  Eric Schmidt admitted that “our biggest competitor is Bing”, and with the Bing/Yahoo! search alliance firmly in place, numbers for Bing are increasing, or “growing like a weed”, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said …

Bing Feature Update: Enhanced Auto Search

With the North American International Auto Show just around the corner, the Bing team feels that now is the time to debut their enhanced auto search.

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Simply enter in the make and model and Bing autos will pull together …

Office 365 for Education pricing details announced

The pricing and plans for Office 365 for Small Businesses and Enterprises were announced back in October last year, however details about Office 365 for Education – the replacement for Live@EDU – was vague. Today Microsoft announced at BETT …

Bing promotes iPhone in latest video

So what IS up with the Bing/iPhone lovefest, anyway?  In this latest video, published today on YouTube (note: so Microsoft promotes 2 competitors with one fell swoop, nice!), this little video vignette follows an iPhone user around as he uses …

Chevron WP7 goes to Redmond

chevronwp7If you remember, Microsoft enthusiasts Long Zheng, Rafael Rivera, and Chris Walsh stirred up quite the hornets nest back last November when they unleashed “ChevronWP7”, a simple tool (accessed through what turned out to be “a coding error”) that …

Tracking the Floods with Bing Maps

If you want to see on a map where floods have occurred in Australia, check out ninemsn. They have put up a Bing Maps user collection map mapping out where the floods have occurred.
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We’ve all seen it on …

Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes

"My Server" app for Windows Home Server Codename "Vail"It seems like Microsoft’s got big plans for its Windows Phone 7 devices. The Windows Home Server team recently posted a blog post about an upcoming WP7 app called “My Server” which allows you to access your Windows Home Server …

Rumour Mill: Windows Phones to get video calls, KIN Studio coming to Windows Phone Live

Neowin.net reported today that according to tips from a “key WP7 employee”, the Windows Phone platform may be getting video chat capabilities much like Apple’s FaceTime. According to Neowin, the application is expected to be bundled into Microsoft’s Live services …

Project Emporia available for Windows Phone 7

We first told you about Fuse Labs Project Emporia back in November and now Project Emporia is already available for Windows Phone 7 via the marketplace.
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This sounds like a must-have app to me, well if you want to …

Bing: FanSnap, TV Listings and Bing in your car?

FanSnap – If you’re searching for sports tickets in the US, things just got easier.  The Bing team just incorporated FanSnap’s venue maps and comprehensive event catalogue into the Bing experience. This means that you can now compare tickets from …