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 …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
April 1st, 2011 at 10:29 am

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

By Sunshine in Bing
April 1st, 2011 at 3:12 am

Hotmail gets IE9 Pinned Sites Notifications

So back when IE9 beta launched last year, Hotmail was quick to jump on the bandwagon and provided jumplist support in Windows 7. However with IE9, jumplist is only one part of the new  “Pinned Sites” feature. The other part, …

By damaster in Featured News
April 1st, 2011 at 1:34 am

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 …

By damaster in Bing Mobile
March 31st, 2011 at 3:10 am

Windows Phone Mobile Studio – where Windows Phone Live meets KIN Studio?

We told you about this before, where Seattle Times reports that Aaron Woodman, Director for Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, indicated that KIN Studio-like features may make its way to Windows Phone Live. Today Mary Jo Foley posted information …

By damaster in Mobile
March 30th, 2011 at 3:29 am

ActiveViews: the future of Hotmail

Today at a session at the Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco, Dharmesh Mehta is taking the stage to show off Hotmail’s expansion of ActiveViews, its in-the-web-client solution bringing live interactive JavaScript directly into emails from participating partners.

We …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
March 29th, 2011 at 9:25 am

IDC: Windows Phone will be #2 platform by 2015

Apparently the recent snafus with the NoDo update haven’t soured IDC on the platform, as the internet research firm released a report this morning predicting that Windows Phone, with a projected 67% year-over-year growth rate, will eclipse Apple’s iPhone to …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured Mobile
March 29th, 2011 at 8:39 am

The Windows Phone PR debacle: will Microsoft ever learn?

neroThere have been a number of incremental news stories regarding the Windows Phone NoDo update since we last posted on the subject – unfortunately none of them are either good or even have much to do with the update itself.  …

By Kip Kniskern in Opinion
March 28th, 2011 at 1:13 pm

Bing Feature Update: Enhanced Bing Entertainment Sharing to Facebook

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Today, Bing team officially announced two social features: One is the Bing News with Twitter public tweet updates that Kip talked about yesterday. Another is about enhanced Bing Entertainment sharing feature.

This week Bing released a new way …

By Picturepan2 in Bing
March 26th, 2011 at 12:37 am

Twitter on Bing/News; Bing on Facebook-not so much

A pair of social networking tidbits featuring Bing – first, according to a tweet tipping Search Engine Land by Bing Program Manager Min John Lee, Bing Social is now surfacing  “Public Updates” on the news results page.  The streamed tweets …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
March 24th, 2011 at 9:36 pm