By Ricky Brundritt, EMEA Bing Maps Technology Solution Professional In addition to Bing Maps great API’s, there are some helpful reporting tools available to anyone who has a Bing Maps account: Developer or Enterprise. These help you get insight as to how people are using your map applications, and to also keep track of your Bing Maps usage so that it does not exceed your allowed transactions.
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The Bing UX Design team and their staffing partners are heading to Dublin, Ireland this week. We’re not flying over the Atlantic just for a good pint of Guinness and some Irish cheer. Bing is attending the IxDA “Interaction 12” conference. We will be showcasing some of our best products and hope to demonstrate our commitment to producing cutting edge design and the growth of the UX community.
Everyone attends a conference...
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On Friday, four teams from around the world were informed that they had won a $75,000 grant to propel their Imagine Cup ideas and prototypes to the next level. One of the winners was Lifelens a distributed team that developed an innovative and cost effective way to identify malaria in patients living in remote and underserved areas.
Lifelens is a point-of-care tool to diagnose malaria using an augmented Windows Phone 7 application. A blood sample...
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Everybody loves a good rivalry.
Whether it’s celebrities vying for an Oscar, artists competing for a Grammy, or presidential hopefuls stumping for the nomination, we all enjoy a good competition. That said, some races are more entertaining than others. According to a recent survey we conducted, nearly 70% of people said they are equally or more invested in the Grammys and Oscars than the race for the US presidency.
With that in...
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We are pleased to announce the winners, pending official confirmation, of the three Bing Rewards sweepstakes that ended on January 11. Our new sweeps have begun and end on January 31. Keep reading for details on the great prizes we’re offering and how to enter, but first congratulations to our latest winners.
John A. of Chalfont, Pennsylvania was drawn as the grand prize winner of the Wintacular Weekend Trip. Have fun picking who to...
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By Ricky Brundritt, EMEA Bing Maps Technology Solution Professional In September of 2011 we started the Bing Maps v7 Module Code Project. The purpose of this project is to create a single place where developers can find and share useful modules that expand the functionality of the Bing Maps Web API.
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Whether you’ve decided to move your website to a new domain or you’re moving content within a current website, it’s important to know how to protect the trust value your current content has with the engines. Over time, links get built, content ages and acquires trust. You don’t want to walk away from that if you can help it. Why start over when most of that value can be transferred to the content...
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As things wrap up in Park City this week, we wanted to thank everyone who stopped by the Bing Bar on main street. We played host to a group of amazing artists, independent filmmakers and athletes who inspire us (and hopefully you.)
We’ve captured some of our favorite interviews and performances below. If you’d like to relive any of these moments, you can find all the interviews at www.bingsundance.com and archived performances...
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Coming back after the holiday season with a lot of energy, the Bing Maps team kicked off 2012 with releases of a new routing engine and the WPF control. Today–only 2 weeks later–we are now announcing several new features in the Bing Spatial Data Services and the Bing Maps Account Center. New features include a data source for traffic incidents, the ability to find points of interest (POI) along a route, wildcard-searches in your POI...
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Sundance 2012 is in full tilt at the Bing Bar. From amazing live performances from the likes of Drake, Jason Mraz, Grouplove and Cobra Starship to candid interviews with stars like Aziz Ansari, Kristen Bell, Paul Simon, Neil Young and Quincy Jones, we have captured all the action.
Check out a few videos below, visit www.bingsundance.com for all of the interviews and check out www.facebook.com/bing for livestreams of events as they...
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