It was only five days ago when Samsung announced the Samsung Focus 2 Windows Phone, and today in an unexpected move the South Korean phone manufacturer has announced another device – the Samsung Omnia M – for the lower-end market …
Two key new components of the “New” Bing: Snapshots and Sidebar, and some notes on the webcast
Last week, we saw Bing roll out a new design featuring a clean new look, the removal of the left hand sidebar, and an “uncluttered, simple, and fast” archecture. Now today, with the announcement of the New Bing, we see …
Bing announces new social search
Bing has scheduled a live webcast for 10 am PDT today, just a few minutes from now, to introduce “The New Bing”, which includes a new sidebar to interact with your friends to be able to search more socially.
A …
A note on comments: Disqus 2012
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Bing tests (then stops) search results in a new tab: are you ok with being a guinea pig?
This morning a number of tech blogs are reporting on what apparently is another test of Bing users, this time with search results opening in a new tab:
Along with lots of other people around the world, We’re seeing it …
Bing Maps Bird’s Eye and Streetside updates
We don’t hear as much about Bing Maps imagery updates as we did in the old days when Chris Pendleton gave us regular updates on the Bing Maps blog, but the Bing Maps team is still hard at work updating …
Nokia announces new app partnerships at CTIA: Exclusive PGA Tour, ESPN, Groupon, more
In New Orleans today, at the CTIA Wireless conference, Nokia announced a number of partnerships bringing a number of high profile apps to Nokia and Windows Phone, some of them exclusive at the start.
The Windows Phone Marketplace currently …
Nokia City Lens beta app now available for Lumia devices
Nokia just released a beta version of their augmented reality location app called Nokia City Lens to the Windows Phone marketplace, exclusively for Nokia Lumia devices. The app was first unveiled during CES 2012 back in January, and had been …
AT&T to launch Samsung Focus 2 LTE Windows Phone on May 20
Leaks about the Samsung “Mandel” or SGH-i667 had been floating around for quite a while, and in a somewhat surprising move today, Samsung and AT&T unveiled the latest addition to the Windows Phone family today – the Samsung Focus 2…
Microsoft at E3: expect “a lot of dashboard”, interface, multimedia, says analyst
Back in March, Microsoft came right out and said that there would be “no talk of new Xbox hardware at E3 or anytime soon” even though there are rumors of new hardware development kits already in production, …
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