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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
April 8th, 2011 at 9:10 pm

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
April 8th, 2011 at 9:52 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
April 7th, 2011 at 10:59 pm

Windows Phone owners: “keep waiting” says Microsoft, users unhappy

homebrewAnother blog post on the Windows Phone blog, another deluge of unhappy responses.  Eric Hautala posted yesterday, imploring Windows Phone users not to resort to “home brew” solutions, and to keep waiting until your phone is officially updated.  …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
April 7th, 2011 at 11:28 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
April 7th, 2011 at 10:23 am

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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
April 6th, 2011 at 11:58 pm

Stitch together video with Microsoft Research ICE

You may be familiar with the photo-stitching capabilities of Windows Live Photo Gallery, well they’re powered by technology coming from Microsoft Research, called ICE, or Image Composite Editor.  ICE has just gone live with a new version, 1.4.2, that you …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
April 6th, 2011 at 10:32 am

Windows Phone Support Tool helps support early NoDo updates

In order to help out Windows Phone users that had problems with the early NoDo updates, perhaps even bricking their phones, last week Microsoft released a Windows Phone Support Tool (rev 2.4), which aimed to fix problems that prevent Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
April 4th, 2011 at 9:51 am

Windows 8 Explorer to have built-in Windows Live Mesh and SkyDrive Wave 5 integration?

Recently, our friends Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have been hard at work bringing us secrets from the early pre-beta builds of Windows 8, believed to have been released to a handful of OEMs and partners on Microsoft Connect just …

By damaster in Featured News
April 2nd, 2011 at 9:45 pm

Zune Update news: new apps, new markets

A couple of tidbits coming from our friend Travis at Entertainment Connected (www.enterconnected.com), looks like not only are there some new apps on the Zune Marketplace, but the Marketplace is showing up in more places, including India, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 2nd, 2011 at 2:00 pm
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