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Bing updates for iPhone, broadcasters (and more to come)

Time to catch up on a couple of news items about Bing that may have slipped your attention, what with all the Wave 4 leaks and Windows Phone news.

bingiphone1 First, a new Bing for iPhone app is now available.  …

Back from Mix, now where’s Wave 4?

Mix 10 was a significant conference for Microsoft, and even though there wasn’t any Windows Live news (even in the hallways, where the only response to our questions of when was “soon”), both Windows Phone 7 Series and Internet Explorer …

Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs

In amongst all the Windows Phone and IE9 goodness (and a distinct lack of Windows Live news), we had a chance at Mix10 this week to catch up with an old friend we’ve never actually met face-to-face, Vikram Dendi of …

Live Mix Day 2

As usual, lots going on here in Las Vegas, with the usual internet connectivity issues, rogue software updates, long hallways, and too much to do in too little time, but we survived Day 1 intact, and now we’re on to …

Mix Liveblog Day 1

Hey, we’re in the front row! Just got in to the main hall for the first day of Mix 10, Long should have pictures up soon. We’re going to go ahead and post this iframe now, just to make sure …

What to expect (and what not to) from Mix

mix Mix 10 starts on Monday morning (at 9am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), as Daylight Savings Time starts in the US on Sunday March 14), and we’ll be there to liveblog the event (we’ll have a post up on Monday with …

No Wave 4 (yet), but a new sign in page, Yay!

We’re all chomping at the bit for new Windows Live toys to play with, obviously,  when something as seemingly minor as a new Hotmail sign-in page generates no less than 4 tips (as always we really appreciate it)!

Sometime today …

XNA Game Studio 4.0 unveiled at GDC

The big news for Windows Phone 7 Series is still to come at Mix next week, but today at the Game Developer’s Conference, Microsoft unveiled XNA Game Studio 4.0, part of a comprehensive plan to get app development for …

More Wave 4 screenshots on LiveSino.net, only this time they’re blocked in China!

This morning our friend Picturepan2, as he likes to be called, posted a couple more Wave 4 screenshots, which to be honest are pretty much just more of the same (although the Windows Live Photo Gallery image manipulation is …

Bing to “take on Goliath” in the UK with new ad campaign

Microsoft is readying a new ad campaign for its “decision engine”, Bing, in the UK, set to begin soon and run through June, according to NewMediaAge:

The TV campaign will run regularly for a month and then in two-week