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Bing Maps Part Two: is Streetside now Street Slide?

Just now when writing up the previous post on Bing Streetside coming to UK maps, we noticed something quite interesting: our Bing Maps Streetside has morphed into what Microsoft Research has called “Street Slide”:

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Bing Streetside coming soon to UK?

Bing Maps Streetside, which provides an “on the ground” look at mapping locations, allowing you to “walk” certain streets and see stitched together photographic images of the area, has only up until this point been available for certain parts of …

Bing Travel Wish List Facebook App

Whether you want to share your dream travel destinations, just get some friends advice or get to know more information about your (dream) travel destination: Bing has the Facebook app for you, Bing Travel Wish List!

Bing Travel Wish

Bing default Search on Blackberry

Microsoft today joined with Research in Motion (RIM) in announcing a new alliance between Microsoft and RIM. Steve Ballmer did the announcement on stage at RIM’s annual Blackberry World.

Central to this collaboration, Blackberry devices will use Bing as the

Coming soon to Australia: new look for NineMSN, Bing to drop beta tag?

ninemsnA report in The Australian’s business section is reporting that NineMSN, the joint effort by MSN and Australia’s Nine Network, will soon be sporting a new look.  The cleaner look, much like MSN.com in the US, will allow …

Bing Shopping streamlined

Bing Shopping is sporting a new look today, according to a post on the Bing Search blog.  The new look features bigger images, Facebook integration (so you can get birthday reminders from within Bing Shopping!), and a new home …

Bing Maps: the Global Ortho Project

bing-map-logoWhile Bing, or Bing Maps for that matter, don’t have the market share that Google or Google Maps have, Microsoft has been working hard to not only catch up but surpass its competitors in creating high quality photographic maps.

Today, …

Bing to say “ciao” to Ciao?

Back in August of 2008, Microsoft, in preparation for the launch of Bing, bought Greenfield Online, Inc., owners of Ciao GmbH, for some $486 million.  Now word is coming out that Microsoft has put Ciao up for sale, at …

Bing on Windows Phone “Mango” to get Bing Vision and Music search?

Bing on Windows Phone MangoOne sharp-eyed reader over at WMPowerUser.com noticed something different on a video Ars Technica posted about the new "Bing Search Extras" feature coming in the Windows Phone "Mango" update. The video briefly showed two additional buttons added to the main …

Bing Rewards (US only), now on your browser

Bing released the Bing Bar in February, a quite useful tool featuring Translate, stocks, news, weather, and yes, Bing Rewards.  The problem of course is that the Bing Bar is an IE only affair, and so if you’re in …