Bing is in testing to begin a wider launch for Bing Tiles, which will be interactive icons placed next to “authoritative” links in organic search results.  We first heard about Tiles in a video interview with Bing Director Stefan Weitz …

Bing Maps developers will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free 40 minute webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1.

The webcast is presented by:

RICKY BRUNDRITT –CEO …

We just got done watching a “Whiteboard Friday” video segment from SEO software maker SEOmoz, with CEO Rand Fishkin in a lighthearted half hour with Bing Director Stefan Weitz, who start off talking about the paid links problems surrounding …

Bing just released their new-version toolbar that they’re calling the Bing Bar, and as usual, even before installing it, as with any toolbar we had an instant negative reaction.  Toolbars, yuck.  They’re slow, they take up valuable real estate, and …

Well, ok, maybe Matt Cutts of Google won’t be too excited about this, after all.  But Bing has just released a new “Bing Bar” anyway.

The new toolbar, available here, adds some nice new features, including Facebook integration, …

Along with the whirlwind of news around a Nokia / Microsoft Windows Phone partnership, this week’s Mobile World Congress brought us a little more news about upcoming releases for Windows Phone.  So we know a little more about what we’ll …

Along with all the news about Microsoft and Nokia, we’ve been seeing quite a few news items go by that seem to show interest for the Windows Phone developer platform, and interest in Windows Phone apps is picking up.

First …

Ahh, we love PR-speak.  After a number of sites picked up on Paul Thurrott’s posting that he’s hearing that “the Zune brand is on the way out”, Microsoft responded, first through Twitter:

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…and then through …

Microsoft today has launched four new corporate blogs, one each for the four tech hotspots in the US (and beyond the “why US only?” questions, we would add “What about Seattle/Redmond?”).  According to the official “Microsoft Blog” on Technet, the …

We told you about Paul Thurrott’s early mentions about a possible Zune rebrand, and then in a post titled “Questions Remain in the wake of a Microsoft / Nokia Partnership”, Thurrott drops more hints:

And what about Zune?