Bing Blogs - 40

SpeedLine Solutions: Increasing restaurant delivery performance

SpeedLine Solutions: Increasing restaurant delivery performance

SpeedLine Solutions, developer of restaurant point of sale and enterprise management software, uses Bing Maps to power their visual dispatch system SpeedLine LiveMaps. Delivery performance is tightly coupled with a restaurant’s profit margin, and SpeedLine LiveMaps utilizes capabilities such as real-time traffic data, routing and visual analytics to help their clients increase operational efficiency and profitability.
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Get ready for the biggest night in Hollywood

Get ready for the biggest night in Hollywood

This Sunday, the biggest names in Hollywood hit the red carpet for the 89th Academy Awards. Head to Bing to prep for the show, or catch up on all the buzz after the event, including nominees, predictions, and our new red carpet shopping experience.
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Quickly Find Businesses Along a Route

Quickly Find Businesses Along a Route

Searching for businesses along a route, like gas stations and coffee shops, is one of the many useful features provided by Bing Maps. See how Bing quickly compares thousands of business points along a route using the deviation in trip time, with help from pre-processing huge amounts of geospatial data.
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Bing Predicts the GRAMMY Awards

Bing Predicts the GRAMMY Awards

This Sunday, February 12, music fans will huddle around their TVs and phones to see who will take home a coveted GRAMMY® Award. To see the full list of this year’s nominees, along with Bing’s predictions for who will win in each category, go to Bing and search for GRAMMYs. 
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Using US Census data with Bing Maps

Using US Census data with Bing Maps

While creating the code samples for the Bing Maps V8 web control, we wanted to make the samples more realistic and use real data. As such, many of the Bing Maps V8 interactive code samples use data from a number of sources such as earthquake data from the USGS, satellite imagery of hurricanes from NASA, weather radar data from Iowa State University, and 2010 US Census data from the US Census Bureau.
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Introducing Visually Rich and Highly Informative Weather Answers

Introducing Visually Rich and Highly Informative Weather Answers

Winter is an especially critical time for checking weather reports, and even more important if you’re the type that likes to hit the slopes. That’s why Bing has just released two new experiences designed to help you navigate every day weather, as well as check the latest snowfall on your favorite ski resort.
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