If you are a zombie living in the US there is a Windows Phone sweepstakes just for you

While I am not sure about the reasoning behind associating Bing and Windows Phone with the undead it seems that AMC and Bing are running a sweepstakes where the lucky winner will end up in Season 3 of the the hit AMC show The Walking Dead. Read More

Looks like we might be hearing some pretty interesting news from Twitter and Bing

Just ran across this conversation between the @Bing and @Twitter account on Twitter

Hmmm .. wonder what’s up?

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Some new Bing ads to start your morning with

Courtesy of Long Zheng over at istartedsomething.com we have a few new video ads from Bing. This time around they are going with a “decide with your friends” tagline that also emphasizes Facebook Likes. Read More

Bing needs more mobile and social leverage

Microsoft’s latest earning’s report stated that the company had an operating income of $3.6 billion in the Office division, $2.9 in Windows, $1.8 billion in Server and Tools and 32 million in profit in Entertainment.  Looks like they’re in quite in a … Read More

Sell Bing? Not a good idea says Doc Searls.

Everyone in the tech blogging world loves to rub Microsoft’s nose in how much of a money loser their online division is, especially Bing its search initiative; even though it has been climbing percentage wise against Google. So really it … Read More

Microsoft’s best product placement ever – actress Kate Hudson names baby “Bing”

Couldn’t resist this but it seems that actress Kate Hudson and husband Matt Bellamy are the proud parents of newborn baby boy that they have named “Bingham ‘Bing’ Hawn Bellamy”.

I wonder how quickly Microsoft’s marketing team was on … Read More

It might not happen tomorrow but Windows Phone will succeed

Since the launch of Windows Phone the on-going silence about sales figures for the Microsoft powered smartphones has left just about everyone with nothing to do but guess and scratch their heads as to what those final number might be like.

For the most part Microsoft has been extremely quiet which has lead some popular tech pundit to suggest that Microsoft could have another failure on its hands.

Well today during his keynote speech at the opening of the Worldwide PArtners Conference Steve Ballmer did make the following statement:

“In a year, we’ve gone from very small to … very small,” said Ballmer, referring to the WP7 market share.

via TechFlash

This of course doesn’t come close to providing any real numbers but for better or worse that is all we have for the moment.

As expected there were a flurry of posts trumpeting this news across the tech blogosphere before the keynote was even finished; once again suggesting that Microsoft doesn’t get mobile and needs to get out of the business.

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Bing to Lasso your search on Apple’s iPad [Video]

Bing is launching an interesting update to their iPad app today that is bringing some improvements along with a new way for users to search for stuff on the iPad using Bing.

Apparently from the research being done by the Bing team they found that conducting searches on the iPad can actually be a bit of a pain that can take up to nine steps before you see any results. The idea behind Lasso is to reduce those steps down to two. Read More