Bing Blogs - 143

Hollywood expert and TV personality Maria Menounos, is launching her first book, The EveryGirl’s Guide to Life to help every girl make decisions on how to live their best life. In this must-have A-Z guide, Maria shares all the tips and secrets she’s learned from the biggest experts in the world to the biggest stars in Hollywood. Bing is the exclusive destination for a series of over 40 videos featuring Maria sharing her secrets on...
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From the outset, our goal with Bing has been to help you stop searching and start deciding. Whether it’s on your computer, smartphone, tablet or the form-factor of tomorrow, we’re constantly exploring new ways to optimize Bing to ensure you’re getting the most from your search experience. Today, we are pleased to introduce a brand new way to interact with Bing: Bing for iPad. Available for free download through the Apple App...
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We recently teamed with Rovio, the folks behind the cultural phenomenon, Angry Birds, to put a new twist on the birds vs. pigs saga. For a limited period, Angry Birds features search integration with Bing providing over a hundred clues to speed you through the levels and help squash the green swine. To celebrate the partnership, we’re giving away 25 Angry Birds plush toys. You may be asking yourself how you can get one. Today (April 6th), we...
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Bing’s Community Program Manager, Betsy Aoki, shares her experience speaking and mentoring at the BlogHer|bet Conference held last week at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus.  BlogHer|bet is a conference for women with ideas.  Discussions were focused around how to bring innovation to a company or new business.  You can read more about Betsy’s experience here.  We agree with Betsy….“helping women in...
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Imagine a room full of U.S. students (16 and up) with projects they created to solve the world’s toughest problems. They’re from all over the country. Picture yourself chatting with the students from the University of Arkansas, Team Uca Ursus, about their automated system to track the speed of a skin lesion’s progression to better diagnose and treat skin cancer. You then meet team LifeCode from Wayne State University, in Detroit...
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The Bing Maps SDK for Android gives Android developers access to all of the great capabilities of Bing Maps but on your Android phone.. 
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A few weeks ago, we celebrated the launch of Internet Explorer 9 and highlighted how you can get the most out of Bing on the world’s most popular browser. In our quest to make Bing super easy to use from any browser, last October we announced our work with Mozilla to make Bing one of the default search engine choices in Firefox 4.  Today we are proud to showcase the work we’ve done with Mozilla to make it easier to use Bing on...
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    I grew up on a small family farm in bucolic Vermont.  My first interest in computers surfaced around 5th grade, when friends’ parents started buying the Commodore 64. We played a lot of Jumpman and “programmed” in LOGO.   In high school I was a bit of a math geek, and took some Basic and Pascal classes as an adjunct to Math.  I remember my teacher making us repeat every day “Computers...
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Over the past few months, we have been working hard to help customers make more informed decisions in search by surfacing the kind of information you can only get from your friends, often in real-time.  Today, we are pleased introduce two new ways to experience Twitter and Facebook on Bing. Bing News adds real-time Twitter updates: Awhile back we introduced Bing social which lets you plunge into the real-time tweet stream to uncover the...
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Bing has teamed with Xtranormal, the next generation filmmakers who bring movie-making to the people, to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, over $10,000 in prizes and for the first time ever- their likeness memorialized as an Xtranormal character for life. Until April 14th, we invite you to visit: http://www.xtranormal.com/bing/ and create a 2 minute (or under) video highlighting the theme “decisions” across three genres...
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