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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You might use Bing for a variety of reasons. Need to search
for a recipe, or need to check out a map? How about making flight arrangements,
make dinner reservations, or better yet, want to scroll through images to get
ideas for redecorating your family room? No doubt Bing is starting to become a
household name when one turns to the internet to make a decision and make it
fast. The Bing team is made up of several individuals who grew up loving...
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Today, we launched updates to the Bing for Mobile browse (m.bing.com) making
it easier for you to get and view information while on the go. New features in
this update include better and faster image search, real-time transit and
directions, app search for the iPhone, and more. Utilizing HTML5, the new
features are offered on Smartphone browsers for the iPhone and Android. If you
have a Windows Phone 7 device, don’t worry, Windows Phone 7...
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