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Bing announces Read/Write World: expanding connections between maps and imagery

rww-bingBing has been making a steady stream of announcements regarding the connection of maps to images for quite some time now, from geo-located PhotoSynths to Streetside and StreetSlide imagery to live video in maps, the work that Blaise Aguera …

Microsoft launches Bing Business Portal

Microsoft just launched their new Bing Business Portal beta today, replacing the old Bing Local Listing Center, which allow business owners to create and manage their local business listings on Bing, all for free. With Bing Business Portal, business owners …

Chris Pirillo geeks out over the Bing iPad app

This week, to lots of good press, Bing released an app for the iPad, and today uber-geek Chris Pirillo posted a YouTube video where, well, he can’t stop gushing about Bing, the app, and how with this app, Microsoft …

Bing HTML5: still here, and captured on video

Getting both positive and “not yet” reports on Bing HTML5, and as luck would have it Bing HTML5 is still here, for the moment.

Some of our commenters (the ones who are seeing Bing HTML5) had the same first reactions …

Bing turns on HTML5 UI

After months of waiting and a few “peeks”, it looks like Bing has finally turned on the HTML5 version of its “decision engine.  We’ve heard some rumblings about it being ready to go, but tonight for the first time …

Bing releases iPad app

Another release from Bing today, this time an app for Apple’s iPad.  It’s getting lots of good press from sites like 9 to 5 Mac, who call the app “amazing”.  Featuring lots of big beautiful images, an emphasis …

Bing: Streetside for Germany, and the return of the Like button

Little bits of Bing news popping up all over: first up is news via Search Engine Land that Bing Maps is about to fire up its Streetside photo cars in Germany.  A recent court case in Germany ruled in favor …

Bing shows off HTML5: getting closer?

(note: no April Fool’s jokes here today, unless you consider the whole NoDo release one big Microsoft prank)

Microsoft Advertising held its “Imagine 2011” event in Redmond this week, bringing together advertisers and industry insiders to talk about …

Bing Maps Android SDK

InKnowledge has launched an open-source Bing Maps SDK for Android. The Bing Maps Android SDK is a base project that can be used to help developers create mapping applications using Microsoft’s Bing Maps.

Built using the latest Bing Maps AJAX

Microsoft accuses Google for blocking Windows Phone 7 and Bing access to YouTube metadata

No YouTubeFor all Windows Phone 7 users out there who had installed the official "YouTube" app from the marketplace, you’d immediately notice it’s lackluster functionality compared to its counterpart in iOS and Android. In fact, all it does is launches the …