WhatsApp now available for download in Windows Phone marketplace

Last week we reported that clues were surfacing about the potential release of WhatsApp for Windows Phone, with a tweet from the official @WhatsApp Twitter account, a teaser image on the official website, and even leaked images of the app …

By damaster in Mobile
September 24th, 2011 at 7:33 am

Bing HTML5 features gradually rolling out

A few days ago we just saw the Bing team enabling an HTML5 video background on the Bing.com homepage. Well it appears that a few other HTML5 features are also gradually rolling out on Bing. One of which is …

By damaster in Bing
September 24th, 2011 at 4:12 am

Bing launches Bing Deals: aggregates 200,000 deals

Today Bing is launching (in the US only, as per their usual) Bing Deals, and instead of firing up their own version of a Deals site, Bing is taking the approach of “harnessing deals from major providers and retailers, including …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 23rd, 2011 at 9:20 am

Bing enables HTML5 home page in the US

Well, it’s a start anyway.  Tonight, Bing (and yes, in the US only) has enabled an HTML5 video on the home page, a time lapse video of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming:

bing home page video

As usual, the home page image changed …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:32 am

Windows Live for Windows 8 previewed; commenters ask “where’s Live Mesh, and what about Essentials?”

screenshot_startScreen_webYesterday, Corporate Vice President for Windows Live Engineering Chris Jones, in a post entitled “A preview of Windows Live for Windows 8”,  expanded a bit on new Windows Live apps “based on Metro principles” and “targeted at Windows …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 22nd, 2011 at 11:05 pm

Facebook’s Timeline maps powered by Bing Maps

Today at Facebook’s F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg is unveiling some major new changes to Facebook, including the introduction of Timeline, a new way to curate and share your life, via Facebook.

One of the filters available in Timeline is Maps, …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing Featured
September 22nd, 2011 at 11:18 am

Happy Birthday Bing Rewards

Bing Rewards (or more officially, the Bing Rewards US Preview), a way for Bing users to earn points for searching on Bing or clicking on special searches to earn more points, is celebrating its first birthday today with a special …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 22nd, 2011 at 9:42 am

Bing gets Action Buttons – helping you to get things done even faster

Following the launch of Adaptive Search last week, the Bing team has just announced another feature – Action Buttons. Currently, Bing lets users get things done faster on a website by offering “deep links”, which are links surfaced in the …

By damaster in Bing
September 22nd, 2011 at 5:58 am

Hotmail: Internet darling to industry underdog… and back? We’ll find out October 3rd

A few weeks ago we received an invitation to “forget everything you thought you knew about Hotmail” and to attend a special event on October 3rd to give Hotmail, “reinvented from the ground up”, a second look.  Well today, as …

By Kip Kniskern in News
September 21st, 2011 at 9:40 pm

Bing: losing money (and catching Google?)

Lots of news about Bing this week, and no, there still haven’t been any announcements about Bing HTML5, even after Build.  Everyone from disgruntled former employees to CNN Money to Google exec Eric Schmidt have been weighing in on the …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
September 21st, 2011 at 12:27 pm
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