Amit Chowdhry | January 18, 2011 | 1,174 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Google, Matt Cutts, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Bing Toolbar, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has ended their relationship with Make-My-Baby.com. Make-My-Baby.com appears to be offline right now, but when it was up – it asked people to download a plug-in to use it. The plug-in changes your homepage to Bing.com and installs the Bing toolbar. And Make-My-Baby.com bought ad space on MySpace and Facebook.

Amit Chowdhry | January 5, 2011 | 1,699 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Microsoft Bing, OpenTable, Pandora, Toyota, Toyota Entune

Japanese car company Toyota has announced a new entertainment system called Entune. Entune will be implemented in certain car models. Entune will have applications, Bluetooth, and text messaging replay and read-back. Apps on Entune include Bing, Pandora, iheartradio, OpenTable, Pandora, and MovieTickets.com. Entune will also have fuel price alerts, stock alerts, weather reports, sports scores, etc. Below is the full press release:

Amit Chowdhry | December 20, 2010 | 500 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Crowdstar, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Corporation, Sibblingz

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has integrated social games into search results. When searching for a game on Bing.com, you can play it directly from within the website. For example, when you Bing “Happy Island,” you can play the social game created by Crowdstar.

Amit Chowdhry | December 8, 2010 | 711 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Bing Maps, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Bing Maps, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced that they have launched mall directory maps. This will help you decide where to park during the holiday season so that you are near the stores that you want to go to. So far the mall maps have been integrated into malls across New York and the state of Washington. Bing Maps product manager Brian Hendricks said that they will be adding new mall maps regularly. The mall maps available now are:

Amit Chowdhry | November 19, 2010 | 722 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Android, Google Android, HTC Merge, Microsoft Bing, Verizon Wireless

The HTC Merge is getting close to the release data because Verizon put a 360-degree view of the phone. Then they quickly removed it after realizing it was too soon to show off. The HTC Merge is the first Android to have CDMA and GSM. The phone also has a QWERTY physical keyboard, 800MHz processor, and Microsoft Bing search as the default. Check out the 360-degree view in the video below:

Amit Chowdhry | September 26, 2010 | 3,079 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Bing Toolbar, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Points, Microsoft Reward Points

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) recently launched a partner program for the Bing search engine. When installing the Bing toolbar and using it for search or participating in daily promotions, you can earn Reward points. Microsoft Reward points can be exchanged for Microsoft Points in 100-point denominations. However its uncertain how quickly one can accumulate a large number of points. Installing the Bing toolbar earns you 250 points, of which 200 can be immediately exchanged for $2.50 worth of Xbox bucks. [Joystiq]
Amit Chowdhry | September 22, 2010 | 783 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Corporation, Twitter

One of Twitter’s biggest flaws today is the ability to find users to follow based on your interests. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has created an interesting solution to help Twitter take care of this dilemma. Now when you search for specific keywords on Bing.com/social, you will be able to find recommendations of influential Twitter users that pertain to those keywords.
Twitter current has over 145 million registered accounts.

Amit Chowdhry | August 30, 2010 | 1,059 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Corporation, Verizon Communications Inc.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has created a Bing for Mobile Android Application for Verizon customers. The free Bing mobile application can be downloaded from the Verizon Wireless Android Marketplace. The Bing Android application has the Bing image of the day with clickable hotspots. You can view the previous 7 days worth of the Image of the Day through the app.
