Category: Bing

Bing donating money to BP oil spill via Twitter

David Cowling | June 22, 2010 | Comments (1)

Bing is setting aside $100,000 USD to donate to help clean up the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This effort is being lead through Twitter. Bing has said if you Re-Tweet (RT) the following: Retweet this & @Bing will donate $10 to @CNN’s Gulf Telethon up to $100K. More at http://bit.ly/howtodonate. #BingforGulf [...]

Microsoft to update Bing entertainment search results

David Cowling | June 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

Microsoft is planning to improve the search results on Bing in relation to searches about music, television shows, movies and games. Senior Vice president of Microsoft’s Online Audience Business, Yusuf Mehdi, will be giving exact details during a press conference in West Hollywood, California on Tuesday 22nd June. TV show search results such as local [...]

Bing added to Opera Browser

David Cowling | June 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Microsoft has completed a deal with rival internet browser Opera, making Bing one of the default search engines in the browser search field. If you want to download the latest version of Opera 10.60 Beta goto: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ Google will still remain as the Default search, but getting Bing infront of Opera users is a good [...]

Microsoft adds new social search feature to Bing

David Cowling | June 10, 2010 | Comments (0)

Microsoft has added a new social search feature to the Bing search engine allowing users to see the trending topcis on Facebook and Twitter. You are able to access the Bing social search at the following link www.bing.com/social No doubt there will be a lot of trending tweets about Justin Bieber Microsoft Senior Vice President [...]

Google says Microsoft is clever, smart and well funded

David Cowling | June 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

It is clear as crystal the battle between Google and Microsoft (with Apple in there too) in one of the internets great rivalries. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made comments on Microsoft’s entrance to the search market saying the software giant is ‘well-funded, smart and clever’. Google holds a high majority of the search market [...]

Apple World Wide Developer Conference recap

David Cowling | June 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Steve Jobs has highlighted about the new iPhone 4 to be released in Australia around July. Nothing else was mentioned on Day 1 at the Apple Apple World Wide Developer Conference. Below is a summary of changes for the iPhone 4. Hardware upgrades – 5MP camera – LED flash next to camera lens – tap [...]

Apple Safari 5 browser showcased at Apple Developers Conference

David Cowling | June 7, 2010 | Comments (0)

Apple Safari version 5 will be showcased at the Apple Developers Conference in California USA. Already receiving praise for being one of the fastest browsers on the net, Safari 5 comes with a number of improvements over the previous version. 1. Safari Reader A new browser based RSS reader called Safari Reader becomes part of [...]

Google adds Bing like picture to search page

David Cowling | June 3, 2010 | Comments (0)

We all know Google has the plain white search page and often changing Google logo. In a recent blog post Google is giving users the option to change their background logo on the search page which can be uploaded from the users computer or Picasa Web album. This allows the Google homepage to somewhat resemble [...]

Apple World-wide Developers Conference June 7

David Cowling | May 31, 2010 | Comments (0)

So the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is on June 7 hosted in San Jose, California – USA. We know Steve Jobs will most probably be focusing on the new iPhone 4G and as to when the OS4.0 will be available to all other iPhone users. Many are speculating that Steve Jobs may also release [...]

RUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone

David Cowling | May 29, 2010 | Comments (0)

There have been many rumors amongst tech news publishers that Bing will replace Google as the default search provider on the iPhone once OS4 is rolling out to devices globally. This is kind of expected especially considering that Google’s Android has been stealing market share from the iPhone over the last several months. Apple apparently [...]

Search Engine rankings – April

David Cowling | May 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

As Australian search engine data is not as freely available we look at the US market data courtesy of Neilson company. In April 9.72 billion online searches we run. Google had 65.7% market share at 6.4 billion searches. Yahoo had 13.4% market share at 1.3 billion searches. Microsoft’s Bing had 12.2% market share at 1.2 [...]

Bing mobile app gets turn by turn navigation

David Cowling | May 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

If you use a Windows mobile phone or BlackBerry you can now download the Bing App which features turn by turn navigation on Bing maps. How much? Free. Go to: http://www.discoverbing.com/mobile/learn.html Whats unfortunately however is that Bing still hasn’t reintroduced and iPhone app for the Australian market. Bing originally made their iPhone app available globally, [...]

Bing WorldWide Telescope Application Available

David Cowling | May 5, 2010 | Comments (0)

Last month Bing launched their WorldWide Telescope application that allows you to look at the stars and constellations from Bing Maps. The application shows real time information on how space is moving around Earth. To download the Telescope App go here, click the MAP APPS button at the bottom of the page, then WorldWide Telescope. [...]