What does a beautiful mountain pass, your favorite coffee shop, and your blossoming backyard garden all have in common? They’re all places you would love to capture and share, but a single photograph just won’t do. Today, we’re introducing the official Photosynth app which lets you capture amazing panoramas of your favorite places to share with your friends and even the world with Bing Maps. (The app is currently available via...
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If you’re a business owner, Bing just got a lot more interesting. Today we launched the Bing Business Portal beta, a new service from Bing to help business owners create and control their online listing, making it easier for their customers to find them on Bing. With it, owners can even create deals and promote the offers on both the Bing desktop and mobile experience – for free. The BBP will replace the Bing Local Listing Center (LLC)...
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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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*Update: Bing deals for the desktop is rolling out and will be fully live for all users in the coming weeks. Calling all bargain hunters, deal lovers, Groupon groupies and Living Social fanatics! Things just got easier. Today we’re launching Bing deals for the desktop and mobile (m.bing.com) – giving you access to more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the U.S. Bing deals assembles leading offers from...
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Today, we are releasing updates to the Bing for Mobile app to be compatible with devices running BlackBerry OS6.  We have also made performance improvements to BlackBerry OS5 devices and added several new features including image search, Bing homepage hotspots, flight Instant Answers, Safe Search and “What’s Nearby.”  Building on our existing feature set, these updates are based on feedback from the RIM community...
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Today in Las Vegas, Toyota took the wraps off Toyota Entune, its upcoming in-vehicle navigation, entertainment and information experience. Entune offers advanced conversational voice recognition, integrated mobile apps and can be upgraded.  Available on select models later this year,  Bing for Mobile will ship as a featured app of Entune, giving drivers access to over 16 million points of interest. After downloading Entune and pairing a...
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As Satya outlined in his post, it’s an exciting time for Bing for Mobile. Last month, Windows Phone 7 hit store shelves showcasing an intuitive implementation of Bing, organizing search alongside the most common things that you do every day. The excitement continues today with the launch of updates to the Bing for Mobile iPhone and Android Apps. The updates streamline how you discover relevant local information, allowing you to do more...
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Today we spent some time in San Francisco to talk with people about the latest release of Bing which is rolling out in the coming weeks. We love getting the opportunity to share what we’re up to and talk about what’s next for search in general and for Bing in particular. There are a number of links below that detail the features going live in the coming days. I encourage you to read the posts, try the product and please let us know...
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It’s been an exciting week for us here at Bing. On Monday, Windows Phone 7 hit US store shelves giving people access to Bing for Mobile out of the box. And for you Verizon Wireless customers, with the release of the Samsung Continuum and the Motorola Citrus, we are happy to announce the Bing for Mobile Android App will come preinstalled.  Since the launch of the Bing for Mobile Android App in the Verizon Wireless Android Market, many...
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We are excited to announce another exciting update to the Bing for Mobile iPhone and iPod Touch app.  Below we have highlighted a few of the new features that will be available soon in the Bing for Mobile iPhone App in the App Store: Travel – We know consumers love the Price Predicator on the PC, and now they can find it along with other great Bing Travel features on their iPhone.  From the Bing for Mobile iPhone app’s...
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