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New Bing Maps App: Piracy Watch

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Yet another new map app is available on Bing Maps: Piracy Watch! This app was built by IDV Solutions, who have a slew of additional information about piracy including an interactive heat map of pirate activities around the …

Adventures with Bing: The Big Apple

This ad shows off the integration work that has been done to Bing.

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Inspired by an image on the Bing homepage, a man decides how to plan his trip to New York City, from finding a great priced …

Official word about the Wave 3 update

Yesterday we reported that there’s a QFE update to Windows Live Essentials. An official word about it appeared on Inside Windows Live:

Today we released an optional update for Wave 3 of the Windows Live Essentials suite in

New Bing Map App: Global Action Atlas

image There’s a new map app on Bing maps: the Global Action Atlas by National Geographic. The application allows users to peer into areas where our planet needs help. National Geographic and Bing Maps invite you to support efforts …

Bing Screensaver

Love the Bing’s Best themepacks (wallpapers) but you are not on Windows 7? Now you can have some of Bing’s Best too, as a screensaver! Yes, even if you are still on Windows XP SP2!image

System requirements:
– Windows

Bing Maps Imagery Release, April 2010

A big Bing maps Imagery update this month: 194,000 square kilometers of new and refreshed imagery. This includes high resolution 20cm aerial for Wellington, New Zealand and 60cm satellite updates for Australia, Mexico, Namibia, Russian Federation and South Africa.

But …

Bing Shopping goes social

Ever felt the need to ask your friend online for their opinion on something you intend to buy? Like for example your next Smartphone? Bing Shopping just made that easy to do! The team put in something you may already …

The making of Streetside

Don’t we all just love photography? I know I do! After all, what better way to share what you’ve seen? It was only yesterday that I was out taking pictures of the Liberation Day festivities here! Where am I …

Windows Phone Developer Training Kit refresh

Following the refresh of the Windows Phone Developer Tools, there’s now also a refresh available of the Training Kit. You can download a local copy of the training kit, or you can go to the online version

Coming up today: Microsoft Windows Community Live Meeting

FYI:

Microsoft Windows Community – (Public Informational)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 9:00AM – 10:00AM Pacific Time

Join the Event

Join an online live conversation with Microsoft Community Managers Matt Bernardy and Jake Grey on May 4th, 2010