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Bing Maps completes major upgrade

Bing Maps completes major upgrade Google maps has long been considered as the top of its class. But Microsoft is trying to change that when they upgraded Bing, which now boasts of a 165 terabyte satellite shots of locations throughout the globe. This is the largest data release ever for Bing and Microsoft. Bing used to only have 129 TB [...] Read more →

Microsoft’s msnNOW tracks latest Web buzz thru Bing

msn now Trying to invigorate and wanting to gain fame through national conversation, Microsoft launches its latest service called the msnNow. This service collates the most shared content on the web and places it on a new Web site, mobile phone browsers and Facebook reader. This service uses algorithms created by the company to scour through Facebook, [...] Read more →

Major Xbox update coming soon

Microsoft is jumping in the bandwagon and is bringing more diversity and flexibility into their Xbox consoles. The update is said to transform the console into an entertainment hub, rather than just a gaming tool. Forty media firms have already signed up with Microsoft to provide both live and on-demand news and TV services to [...] Read more →

Microsoft teams up with Twitter and Facebook

Yes, its confirmed. Microsoft’s newest search engine, Bing, will be bringing real-time search results from Twitter and eventually, Facebook. The announcement was made by search head Qi Lu and senior vice president usuf Mehdi at the Web 2.0 Summit in Francisco held today. Real time tweets were available in beta from Twitter at Bing.com/twitter starting [...] Read more →

Microsoft Bing coming to iPhone

Today, Microsoft released  an open source software developer kit that’ll make the lives of iPhone developers… uhm, at least those who want to build iPhone apps that can access Bing. Using the kit, developers can create an app that searches Bing for Web info, news, videos, images and phonebook results. It can also be incorporated [...] Read more →

Bing plus Twitter = a whole new experience

Microsoft’s newest search engine seems to be getting better and better! Now, they have come up with an ingenious plan: incorporating the very popular Twitter in the search engine! Now who can say no to that? The Website is called BingTweets. The interface shows users a combined view of the search engine and a live [...] Read more →

Bing adds credibility to Microsoft

As I have written in one blog previously, many were skeptical about Microsoft’s Bing and its plan to compete with the two search engine giants. This isn’t a surprising reaction as Microsoft’s repeated efforts to come up with credible search engines fell flat before. Bing however, changed all that and as New York Times wrote, [...] Read more →

Bing wins over Yahoo! again

For the second time since its launching, Microsoft’s newest search engine has surpassed Yahoo Search in terms of the most used search engine in the U.S. The first time was on the day of its launching, which many thought was attributed to the “launch momentum”. Bing however proved them wrong as it its been a [...] Read more →