Bing UK is launching the GetMeThere app, a London travel helper, which is available today on Windows Phone for free. GetMeThere is the only app to make use of Bing maps and the London Underground live updates together, so there’s no need to flick from app to app to get from A to B. For any tourist, travelling through London can be daunting when you’re standing in an unfamiliar city with no tube station in sight. Even if you’re a...
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Bing.com announces a new Attractions feature giving over users instant access to key information on over 50,000 points of interest in 6,600 cities worldwide. The feature which launches this week, spans a range of global attractions from comedy festivals and museums, to historical sites and panoramic spots.   Bing Attractions helps guide and inspire users around the globe by allowing them to enter a destination city or country, before...
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1 rapper, over 8,000 entries and more than 120,000 votes has culminated in the Bing Your Britain photography competition. Tonight, in an exclusive event being hosted by UK rapper Dizzee Rascal, we will announce the overall winner whose image will be shown on the Bing homepage. The Mercury award winning artist, who kicked off the competition by capturing a series of photos for the visually led search engine’s homepage, will join an esteemed...
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Brits are extremely loyal to their region with 70 per cent happy to live and stay in their local area, according to research findings unveiled by Bing.com today. Whilst seven in ten would consider moving in the future, the majority would simply jump from one city to another in their region, rather than packing up and moving far away.   Following the overwhelming number of entries to its Your Britain national photography competition, Bing...
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To celebrate Dizzee Rascal’s curation of Bing’s homepage to launch its www.your-britain.com national photography competition we are giving away exclusive prints signed by Dizzee. The images show the different places around Britain that have inspired Dizzee on his personal journey into making the music we love today. For your chance to win, simply tweet the name of your favourite photographer before Thursday 30 June with the hashtag ...
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Mercury prize winning artist Dizzee Rascal’s pick of the week is a wind and rain swept image of a grounded Shackleton, which was a British long-range, maritime patrol aircraft for use by the Royal Air Force.    The photo is a new entry in the local, urban and secret categories of Bing’s Your Britain national photography competition, which Dizzee kicked off last month with Dizzee curating the visually led search engine...
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Mercury prize winning artist Dizzee Rascal is waxing lyrical about some of the images captured for the Bing.com Your Britain photography competition. But the photo that really strikes a chord with the music artist is a close up shot of a Metropolitan Policeman with his iconic helmet with shiny badge. The photo is a new entry in the local, urban and secret categories of Bing’s Your Britain national photography competition, which Dizzee kicked...
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Dizzee Rascal shows an unexpected side to his repertoire of photographs on Bing.com today with an image of the Carp Lake in Dorking, Surrey where he enjoys fishing. The shot is part of an original collection of his photographs to launch the Bing.com ‘Your Britain’ photography competition. Enter the www.your-britain.com for a chance to win £10,000. The winning image will also secure a 24-hour slot on the Bing.com homepage later...
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Dizzee Rascal continues his quest to capture inspirational Britain with a trip to his favourite old school barbers as part of an inspiring, original collection of his images for the Bing.com ‘Your Britain’ photography project. The Mercury prize winning artist photographed inside the D & L’s Barbers on Hornsey Rd in Islington, London, which he regularly visits to fix up and look sharp. This retro, memory filled location is the...
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Multi award-winning music artist, Dizzee Rascal, visits the Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of Bing.com’s ‘Your Britain’ national photography competition. He’s been travelling around the UK capturing images of Britain which inspire him most and one of his striking photos from the Sculpture Park is appearing on the search engine’s homepage today. Describing the choice for his latest shot Dizzie said: “I...
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