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 [...]
Continue reading →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 [...]
Continue reading →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 [...]
Continue reading →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 [...]
Continue reading →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, [...]
Continue reading →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 [...]
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