Up for some good times with your Windows Phone 7-toting friends? Firing up the new We’re In app puts you on the fast track for geolocation-powered fun. Select friends from your phone’s contacts, let “your peeps” (Microsoft’s words, not mine) know what you’re up for, and let the app know how long you’d like to make your location known. We’re In offers built-in group messaging… Read more »

Microsoft has rolled out a new feature that lets iOS users discover mobile apps related to their searches. Say you’re looking up movie showtimes. Movie-related apps such as IMDB or Fandango might show up in your Bing mobile search results. You have to scroll through a few more traditional listings before you find the app results, but once you see them you can click the… Read more »

Research in Motion and Microsoft have announced a deal to make Bing the default search provider for BlackBerry phones. Bing services will also be tightly integrated into the operating system, including Bing maps and location services, local deals, voice recognition, and more. Since this isn’t just a series of apps, but rather deep system-level stuff, it means that you’ll be able to access location, search,… Read more »

Microsoft may be building touch-friendly features into Windows 8 to optimize the operating system for tablets, but that isn’t stopping the company from pushing out apps for other tablet platforms. Today Microsoft launched Bing for iPad, bringing Microsoft’s search, weather, news, and other information to Apple’s tablet. The Bing home screen is a looker, with a different high quality background image each day. The app… Read more »

Microsoft has updated its mobile Bing web site with a number of new features. But like the last major update to m.bing.com, all of these new features require a browser with HTML5 support, which currently rules out the browser on Windows Phone 7 devices. So what’s new at Bing for iPhone and Android users? Real-time transit directions Faster image search Movie listings are organized by… Read more »

Microsoft has launched a new deals feature, which offers more than 200,000 offers from businesses in 13,000 cities throughout the US. The service is available from the Bing.com web site or from the mobile site (m.bing.com). The bargains come from The Dealmap, which gathers its data from Groupon, LivingSocial, Restaurant.com and other services. If you’re wondering why you should use Bing instead of the Dealmap… Read more »

Microsoft has released a major update to its apps for Android and iOS, and the update is a doozy. Among other things, the new iOS version adds: Bing Streetside views (Bing’s answer to Google Street View) More transit directions and real-time transit updates for several cities Find movies by name, location, or theater Find restaurants based on price, cuisine, atmosphere or location Check-in to Facebook,… Read more »

A few months ago Microsoft launched a Bing app for Google Android that allows users to search for images, pictures, maps, directions, news, or you know, web pages. It might seem a bit strange to use Microsoft’s search engine on an operating system designed by Google, but the Bing app actually has a really nice look and feel and competition is always a good thing…. Read more »

Microsoft has added Windows 7 apps to its Bing Visual Search Beta tool. What that means is you can check out the latest, top rated, or most downloaded apps for Windows Phone 7 using a desktop web browser. No Zune Desktop software required. No Windows Phone 7 device required. You can carve up the results in a number of different ways. There are 16 categories,… Read more »

Microsoft has launched a new version of its Bing search app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Bing 1.3 includes retooled travel and map functions, including: Search for flights and get tips on whether to wait for better fares using Bing’s price predictor View nearby locations in Maps Enhanced traffic info, business listings, other info for Maps While it might cause a bit of cognitive… Read more »