Zune coming to non-US markets

bglogowhite A story in the Financial Times today is reporting that Zune services will soon be expanding into a number of new markets:

The Zune-branded service – which includes the most popular films from MGM, Paramount and Universal – will be

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By Kip Kniskern in News
November 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

On the road next week to PDC, catch the keynote Liveblog here!

We’re honored again to be able to bring you a group effort liveblog of the keynotes at PDC, coming up next Tuesday and Wednesday.  The same gang is back again this year: Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com, Mary Jo Foley …

By Kip Kniskern in News
November 13th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Bing UK sheds beta tag, Bing Maps UK released

Bing UK is no longer in beta, it just shed its beta tag. So now when you search for football you won’t get NFL schedules but Football results (Americans call what we call football soccer), providing you do use …

By Sunshine in Bing
November 13th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

New Features In Windows Marketplace For Mobile, Support For Windows Mobile 6.0 And 6.1 Later This Month

Windows Marketplace for Mobile, launched in October together with the launch of Windows phones, got some upgrades:

Developer portal improvements and stronger anti-piracy protection

We’ve been gathering input on what we can do to improve the developer experience

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By Sunshine in News
November 12th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

Windows Live Rolls Out 19 New Web Activity Partnerships

We could already add quite a lot to our Windows Live Profile, but starting today there are 19 more to add!

The newest feed partners are:

4Travel (Japan), Azbuz (Turkey), Baby Kingdom (Hong Kong), Biip.no (Norway), Break.com (US), BuscaPe

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By Sunshine in News
November 11th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

Bing videos: where every view is a search

The new Bing Videos site looks to be a big improvement over its predecessor MSN Video – with Silverlight Streaming, a new cleaner look, and integration with YouTube, Hulu, National Geographic, and many more.  But like many others, we’ve been …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 11th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Bing Maps Imagery Release, November 2009

This month’s, 178,720 square kilometers worth, early image release is focused on Europe, mostly Eastern Europe:

  • Bulgaria (1,225 sq. km)
  • Czech Republic (10,808 sq. km)
  • Estonia (1,418 sq. km)
  • Hungary (23,840 sq. km)
  • Latvia (12,763 sq. km)
  • Lithuania (9,681 sq.
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By Sunshine in Bing
November 11th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

MSN Video is now…Bing Videos!

Starting today, MSN Video will be gradually be rebranded and integrated into Bing Videos, providing a “unified experience” across Microsoft’s online video destinations. Here’s what the Bing team blog has to say:

Starting today and rolling out over the

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By damaster in Bing
November 11th, 2009 at 7:34 am

New features and updates to Bing Reference!

Thanks to a reminder from Picturepan2@LiveSino.net, we noticed an update to Bing Reference that went unnoticed. For those who don’t know what Bing Reference is, it is a search vertical of Bing that is based on the acquired Powerset …

By damaster in Bing
November 11th, 2009 at 6:19 am

Bing fall update announced: Wolfram|Alpha, weather, more

Hot on the heels of the updates to Bing Maps, Videos, and Reference, Bing made some more announcements today, as part of a “major release”, to be rolled out over the coming weeks.  Most noticeable is the announcement of a …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
November 11th, 2009 at 2:03 am
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