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Software Company, IncaX, uses Bing Maps as part of its CopTrax solution, which streams live video from a police officer’s vehicle or body camera and stores it in the cloud. To better pinpoint officers’ locations and reconstruct details of police activity, IncaX incorporated mapping into its solution. Now, IncaX law enforcement customers use CopTrax to make more informed day-to-day decisions, reduce IT administration, and...
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Microsoft Cognitive Services QnA Maker and the Bing Location Control are new intelligence services for use with the Microsoft Bot Framework. Built by the same engineers that work on Bing relevance, ranking, and geo-spatial maps services, these are another example of how we are adding Bing AI to tools for developers.
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Many developers use the Bing Maps REST services to perform spatial queries such as geocoding an address or calculating routes and distances. The Bing Maps REST services are nice and fast, however, using them from a .NET application used to require a decent amount of work. The Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit aims to make it easy to use these services from your .NET application by providing a portable class library, which wraps the Bing Maps REST...
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Follow through on your health and fitness resolutions and save money, with help from Bing.
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As announced earlier this week on the Bot Framework Blog, the Microsoft Cognitive Services QnA Maker, is a free, easy-to-use, REST API- and web-based service that trains AI to respond to users’ questions in a conversational way. QnA Maker works in three steps: extraction, training, and publishing. To start, feed it anything from existing FAQ URLs to documents and editorial content.
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Looking back at the billions of searches conducted through Bing this year reveals many powerful moments that stood out above the rest, to make 2016 memorable. The bright spots in this past year are the topics we’ve brought to the surface.
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As announced earlier this week on the Bot Framework Blog, the open source Bing Location Control for Bot Framework allows bot developers to easily and reliably get the user’s desired location within a conversation. The control is available in C# and Node.js and works consistently across all messaging channels supported by Bot Framework. All this with a few lines of code. Read the full post on the Bing Developer blog.
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Starting December 1, the Bing homepage transforms into a delight-delivery device: each day of December will reveal a new seasonal treat. Just click the gift icon to turn on the holiday calendar, then visit Bing each day to discover what daily holiday wonders and acts of kindness await. 
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For years, the sitemaps protocol defined at www.sitemaps.org stated that each sitemap file (or each sitemap index file) may contain no more than 50,000 URLs and must not be larger than 10MB (10,485,760 bytes). While most sitemaps are under this 10 MB file limit, these days, our systems occasionally encounter sitemaps exceeding this limit. We are happy to announce that we are increasing sitemaps file size.
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Bing Search APIs (including Web Search, Image Search, Video Search, News Search as one collection) give developers the ability to bring the knowledge and intelligence of web search right into their experiences, and intelligence is always at the forefront of our conversations with partners.
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