The search site for smartphones and tablets now has a much more sleek and attractive appearance. Microsoft has now launched a brand new redesign of its Bing search engine site for mobile technology that is meant to reflect the attractive visual appearance of the version that had been created for desktop. The tech giant recreated the look of its smartphone friendly version in order to add similar imagery. The Bing homepage for mobile technology has now been recreated by Microsoft so that it has the same treatment as the desktop…
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Mhealth is a new focus for Microsoft with a Bing app
The tech giant is looking to take advantage of the massive trend toward mobile health and fitness. Microsoft has just joined the latest to jump onto the bandwagon for mhealth and fitness with the launch of its new mobile app called the Bing Health & Fitness application for the Windows Phone operating system. This unveiling comes at the same time that many other giants in the industry have expressed similar interest. Also showing interest in mhealth and fitness are other tech giants beyond Microsoft, such as Apple, Google, Samsung, and…
Read MoreMicrosoft updates its Windows Phone Bing Translator app
Technology giant Microsoft has released updates to its famous Bing Translator mobile application. The application can be used to translate printed words by simply taking a picture. The Bing Translator has been useful for many travelers as it enabled them to read foreign languages in their native tongue. Microsoft believes that the system can be more intuitive, thus the company has updated the platform to use augmented reality. This will allow users to translate text in real time, but is only one of the application’s new features. The Bing Translator…
Read MoreAs Yahoo! and Bing make a comeback, so does mobile ad momentum in 2012’s first quarter
According to the IgnitionOne quarterly release, the 2012 first quarter has continued to generate solid year-over-year increases in search advertising, following a record last quarter in 2011. First quarter 2012, saw a significant search spending year over year growth, increasing by 30.3 percent, which was more than twice the spending in the first quarters of both last year and the year before. This spike has been credited to the rebirth of both Yahoo! and Bing, as they took the largest market share that they have seen since they partnered. In…
Read MoreWill Google+ hold up against the competition?
Google has finally pushed its way into the social networking world, with Google+ taking off in a way that Wave, Buzz, and other attempts never did, but tech experts are asking whether it will be able to maintain its popularity beyond its novelty, or whether the competition will drown it out. In the first two weeks of Google+, it managed to break the 10 million user mark. So far, user feedback seems to indicate that people are happy with the service once it passed the initial feelings that they don’t…
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