Internet Explorer 9 holds special press event on March 14 – final build coming soon?

Microsoft just released the Release Candidate (RC) build of their upcoming Internet Explorer 9 on February 10, their official team blog is already gearing up for their next event – a special party to be held during the South by …

By damaster in News
February 19th, 2011 at 2:12 am

Bing Tiles: 45 Content Providers bringing sponsored “tiles” to organic search results, coming soon

Bing is in testing to begin a wider launch for Bing Tiles, which will be interactive icons placed next to “authoritative” links in organic search results.  We first heard about Tiles in a video interview with Bing Director Stefan Weitz …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 18th, 2011 at 10:59 pm

Free webcast for map developers

imageBing Maps developers will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free 40 minute webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1.

The webcast is presented by:

RICKY BRUNDRITT –CEO …

By Sunshine in Bing
February 18th, 2011 at 1:43 am

New from Bing: sponsored tiles, and what’s “Azure on the Go?”

We just got done watching a “Whiteboard Friday” video segment from SEO software maker SEOmoz, with CEO Rand Fishkin in a lighthearted half hour with Bing Director Stefan Weitz, who start off talking about the paid links problems surrounding …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 17th, 2011 at 11:48 pm

Bing Bar: Quick first impressions: Can we learn to love a toolbar?

Bing just released their new-version toolbar that they’re calling the Bing Bar, and as usual, even before installing it, as with any toolbar we had an instant negative reaction.  Toolbars, yuck.  They’re slow, they take up valuable real estate, and …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
February 17th, 2011 at 12:31 pm

Bing releases the new “Bing Bar”, just for Matt Cutts

Well, ok, maybe Matt Cutts of Google won’t be too excited about this, after all.  But Bing has just released a new “Bing Bar” anyway.

The new toolbar, available here, adds some nice new features, including Facebook integration, …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
February 17th, 2011 at 10:23 am

Roadmaps to Mango: some thoughts on Windows Phone 7.5

Along with the whirlwind of news around a Nokia / Microsoft Windows Phone partnership, this week’s Mobile World Congress brought us a little more news about upcoming releases for Windows Phone.  So we know a little more about what we’ll …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 16th, 2011 at 10:51 pm

Windows Phone apps: interest is picking up

angry-birdsAlong with all the news about Microsoft and Nokia, we’ve been seeing quite a few news items go by that seem to show interest for the Windows Phone developer platform, and interest in Windows Phone apps is picking up.

First …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
February 16th, 2011 at 11:31 am

Zune issues a “denial”

Ahh, we love PR-speak.  After a number of sites picked up on Paul Thurrott’s posting that he’s hearing that “the Zune brand is on the way out”, Microsoft responded, first through Twitter:

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/yegr/status/37650843863875584″]

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/yegr/status/37652509111619584″]

…and then through …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 15th, 2011 at 6:47 pm

Microsoft rolls out 4 new US local blogs: Silicon Valley, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles

Microsoft today has launched four new corporate blogs, one each for the four tech hotspots in the US (and beyond the “why US only?” questions, we would add “What about Seattle/Redmond?”).  According to the official “Microsoft Blog” on Technet, the …

By Kip Kniskern in News
February 15th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
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