Bing Offers Detailed Maps of 42 U.S. Airports

Bing Maps Offer a Closer Look at U.S. Airports

Ever wanted to know where terminal E is in a airport? or What shops does the terminal E of a airport? Bing wants to help you find all details about airports and make your travel easy with detailed maps of U.S. airports.  Announcing the latest updates to Bing Maps, Bing made 42 detailed maps U.S. [...]

Bing Piggy-backs on Facebook to Fight Google

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Bing announced a number of new features that piggy-backs on Facebook to attract more users and fight Google and its new +1 product. Bing search got deeply integrated with Facebook to provide a more social search. With the new features, Bing wants to change the notion that search is all about about links and fact. [...]

Bing to Power BlackBerry Devices

Microsoft’s Bing announced that it is joining hands with Blackberry to become the preferred search provider in Blackberry devices including smartphones and PlayBook tablet. In addition to search, Microsoft map application will be the preferred map app. Announcing the partnership with Blackberry, Bing said the alliance between Blackberry and Microsoft goes beyond a “search box”, [...]

Bing Gets Firefox Search Bar Boost

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Firefox announced today that it will refresh the search bar in Firefox 4 and it will be adding Bing as one of the search options in its search bar. Firefox search bar makes it easy for users by offering a number search services right in the browser. One can easily choose a search service and [...]

Microsoft Launches Bing Rewards Program Again

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Bing launched a new program called Bing Rewards with the goal of engaging more users on Bing and increase awareness of what Bing can do to the public.   Bing Rewards lets user earn credits for using Bing search and exploring online. Bing says the credits are redeemable for rewards. Launching the preview of Bing Rewards [...]

Bing Social to Suggest Twitter Users to Follow

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Bing took one more step to become more social by adding one more layer of social its search.  Bing announced in its blog that it is introducing a new feature called “People Recommendation” on Bing Social. With more than 145 million accounts it is not easy to find interesting people to follow.  People Recommendation will help [...]

Google Goes Bing

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Last week, Google announced a Bing-like feature that allows Google users to add their favorite picture (or from Google) at the backdrop of Google search main page. Bing has a similar feature with changing picture everyday at the backdrop of Bings search homepage. Today Google went one step further by having a default picture at [...]

Apple’s Mobile Advertising Network: iAd to Debut on July 1

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Apple announced at WWDC 2010 that Apple’s attempt to break into ad business using iAd to make debut on 1st July. iAd is Apple’s mobile advertising network based on iOS platform running on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple unveiled iAd at its iPhone OS 4 meet in this April. iAd is built right into [...]

Bing Gets a Pat on the Back from Steve Jobs

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A few weeks back there were rumors of Bing completely replacing Google as a default search engine in iPhone. The rumors died immediately and even Steve Jobs quashed the rumors at All Things Digital’s conference D8 by saying that Google will stay in iPhone. Steve Jobs: Bing is kinda cool As expected Microsoft’s search engine [...]

Bing on iPhone: Rumors Fly Around

On Friday, rumors flew around about Bing search on iPhone. The rumor was that when Apple releases iPhone 4G in June, it will have Bing as default search option, not Google. Currently, iPhone has Google as the default search engine. Although users could easily change the search option to Yahoo. TechCrunch first reported that it [...]