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Mango: Windows Phone Gets It’s Bing Vision

May 24, 2011 No Comments

Along with Bing giving more indepth search results,Microsoft has added a whole new way to perform searches using your WP7 device. Currently there are two ways to do a Bing search, by typing in your search and by doing a voice search, with Mango there will also be Bing vision. What Bing vision does is […]

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Mango: Bing Quickcards Will Change The Game

May 24, 2011 No Comments

Searching on your mobile device will never be the same again. Mango will take Bing searches to a whole new level. Pretty much any information that you might be searching for on Bing will be put into quickcards for easily accessible information. Someone looking for a place to eat would get results from the immediate […]

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Almost Showtime For Mango: What has been Uncovered So far

May 24, 2011 No Comments

We have less than an hour to prepare for Microsoft’s Mango event. It promises to have tons of news and new features involving the Mango update and the future of Windows Phone. We are very excited and even more so with Steve Ballmer stating that there will be over 500 new features packed in with Mango. Let’s […]

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Windows Phone and Bing Maps to the Rescue

May 21, 2011 No Comments

We use our Windows Phone everyday for fun, work, getting connected to those that matter most to us. Occasionally I use Bing maps to locate areas around me like restaurants, shops, parks. One very lucky guy though used it for a reason that trumps all the different ways I have ever used my Windows Phone, he […]

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Nokia Kills OVI Brand in Favor of Nokia Services

May 16, 2011 No Comments

Well this just makes sense for Nokia… Nokia’s Ovi Store, Ovi Maps, and Ovi etc. will now just be called Nokia Services. Now that all those services will be on Windows Phone, it makes sense for Nokia to put their signiture on every product. Nokia WP7 devices cannot come any faster! In that same token […]

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Bing Reviews Down on WP7?

May 9, 2011 1 Comment

Oh no…. Looks like Bing local reviews on the Windows Phone is on the fritz. Doing a local search and tapping on a place will give you the usual information and results but when you slide over to the reviews it shows none. Even if on the previous screen it said that there was 216! […]

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New Features to Come With Mango Have Been Revealed!

May 9, 2011 No Comments

New features for the Mango update have just been revealed! Through their Windows Phone Dev Podcast Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk have revealed major updates to the Windows Phone coming in 7.5 (which should be arriving later this year). Lets take a look through the new features. Bing Audio allows you to search for music using […]

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Steve Ballmer Talks Bing at Blackberry World 2011

May 6, 2011 No Comments

We wrote a few days ago how Microsoft actually took the stage at Blackberry World 2011 to talk about Bing services on new Blackberry devices. Also, the fact that Steve Ballmer even mentioned Windows Phone 7. Here is that keynote from Blackberry world 2011… Source: CrackBerry

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Microsoft Pwns Blackberry World – Pitches WP7

May 3, 2011 No Comments

I know RIM has been making a couple of weird decisions lately. First they announce that they will allow Android apps on their Playbook tablet. Then they announced that new Blackberry devices and their Playbook tablet will come with Bing and Bing Maps built in. Now they actually let Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer take the […]

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Bing Search Hits 30% – Google Loses 3%

April 12, 2011 No Comments

Well well well look what we have here. I have been a Bing user ever since it came out and everyone looked at me like I was from another planet. Now Microsoft’s search engine Bing controls 30% marketshare (including Yahoo of course). While Google keeps on slipping and fell another 3%, taking it down to […]

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Nokia Lumia 900 Launching Early 2012 in the US With Tango (Specs)

  BGR has inside information regarding Nokia’s launch of Windows Phones in the US. With this comes new that...

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