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New location browser on Bing Search

Bing Search just keeps on evolving. Yesterday we told you about the Spring Updates and today we add one more update. Bing now has a new location browser for mapping out places in Bing Search reference results. Chris Pendleton gives

My Phone Updated

MyPhoneLogo_5F00_415F4F05[1] An updated version of Microsoft My Phone (v. 01.06.22718.0001) for Windows Mobile 6+ is now available for download from the site or Microsoft Download Center.

If you are already running Microsoft My Phone You will receive a notification on …

Bing in Spring

There are going to be some changes to Bing. Today at SES New York the Bing team shared their plans to begin testing some new Bing features as they are moving into he next wave of innovation rolling out later …

Embed Bing Maps Twitter Maps: Internationalization/fixed map issue [updated]

Remember how we found there was a internationalization issue with embedding Bing Maps Twitter Maps? Users outside the US were not able to view those set to fixed. Ravi, one of the Microsoft devs who worked on this, …

Behind the scenes: Photo sharing on SkyDrive

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of photo sharing on Skydrive? Over on Inside Windows Live, Eric Doerr wrote an interesting post about it. For example did you know that they store four copies …

Free Bing T-Shirt

image The Bing team and the Xbox Live team have a surprise for you! You can now dress your Xbox Live Avatar in a Bing t-shirt!

How? Head on over to Bing, make sure you have Bing set to United …

Bing & Decide Second UK advert

The second of three TV ads will air from Thursday 18th March across ITV, Channel 4, Five and their portfolio of TV services as well as Sky Media and IDS digital channels including Bravo, Dave, GOLD, Living TV and Good …

ICE now uploads to Photosynth

The latest release of Image Composite Editor (ICE) has a “Publish to Photosynth” button. That’s right, you can now upload your full-resolution panoramas to Microsoft Photosynth for easy sharing on the web. 
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Photosynth is Microsoft’s unique technology for reconstructing 3D …

Videos of MIX10 Windows Phone sessions

All the MIX10 keynote & session videos are now available at http://live.visitmix.com/videos. Each session will eventually be offered as a high-quality WMV, a regular quality WMV, and as a MP4 file for mobile devices. For most sessions, the PowerPoint …

Bing iPhone App removed from International App Stores

The Bing iPhone App apparently was never meant to be available outside of the United States and is now removed from all App stores besides US. A Microsoft spokesperson told Neowin the following:

"When we released the iPhone application we