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WorldWide Telescope Map App released

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Today, the Bing team released the WorldWide Telescope mapping application for Bing Maps. Originally demoed at TED in February by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, the new application is the latest release supporting Bing’s Spatial Search vision.

The WorldWide Telescope …

Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now

It appeared briefly last week, then got pulled…what oh what would that be? Silverlight for Symbian!

The good news is, it is back! You can now download Silverlight for Nokia Symbian (S60 5th Edition) devices such as Nokia 5800 …

MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2

Today at MIX10, Dean Hachamovitch unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview including expanded support for HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new JavaScript engine.

Starting at MIX10, developers will be able to track Microsoft’s progress and provide …

MIX10 – Day 1

0647.mix_5F00_thumb_5F00_499AFC80[1] The first day of MIX10 is behind us. For those of you who’ve missed it (like myself), the full video of the Day 1 keynote is available on demand now! Let’s take a look at what went on on Day …

Embed Bing Maps Twitter Maps in your website

Chris Pendleton announced that you can now embed Bing maps Twitter Maps on your site:

We’ve just released an update to the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery. NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality

Bing on Motorola Android phones

Motorola announced a global alliance with Microsoft yesterday. They will deploy Bing services on their Android powered devices. This new offering beholds a pre-loaded Bing bookmark on their mobile phone browser and an enhanced search widget with Bing integration.

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UK TV ad for Bing airs

The first of 3 TV ads for Bing in the UK will air from Wednesday 10th of March across ITV, Channel 4, Five and their portfolio of TV services as well as Sky Media and IDS digital channels including Bravo, …

New MSN homepage rolling out

Microsoft is rolling out the new MSN homepage to its US users over the next few weeks. The new MSN homepage cuts through the clutter with a clean, new design and offers search, news, local and social networking – all …

Bing Earth Day homepage contest, students (US) only!

The next Bing homepage contest got announced at NCCE Seattle. This time the Bing team asks students in the United States to submit photos to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The contest kicks off on March

Windows Phone 7 cross platform game coding, playing

More and more is revealed about coding for Windows 7 series phones. We don’t even have to wait for MIX10 to catch a glimpse! WMPoweruser.com discovered a video from TechEd Middle East showing off a game being started on the …