3 ways to enhance your State of the Union viewing experience

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President Barack Obama will deliver his fourth State of the Union address tonight at 6 p.m PST with Apple CEO Tim Cook on hand. It will be interesting to see if Obama speaks about technology and/or entrepreneurship — if you recall last year’s speech, Obama sounded more like a venture capitalist than the president of the United… Read More…

The San Francisco 49ers are trouncing the Baltimore Ravens … on Microsoft Bing

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If the number of Bing searches correlates with winning football games, then 49ers fans have reason to be ecstatic. Bing has been analyzing some of the top searches relating to Sunday’s Super Bowl and found that San Francisco is driving twice as many searches than the Baltimore Ravens. San Fran quarterback Colin Kaepernick has 50… Read More…

Bing beefs up social sidebar with more Facebook content

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Just two days after landing a big partnership with Facebook’s new Graph Search, Bing today announced more robust Facebook integration with Microsoft’s search engine. Currently when you search on Bing, the right-hand sidebar provides “Social Results” with your Facebook friends’ “Likes,” photos and profile information, given that your Facebook account is connected. But beginning today,… Read More…

Big win for Microsoft: Facebook partnering with Bing for “Graph Search”

Facebook is partnering with Bing for Graph Search.

While employees at Google may be worried about Facebook’s latest move, the Bing people over at Microsoft are pumping their fists. That’s because Facebook is partnering with Bing for its new search product called “Graph Search.” Graph Search is all about helping Facebook users search for things their friends have shared. For example, you can find… Read More…

Ho, ho, Bing: NORAD Tracks Santa switching from Google to Microsoft

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Looks like Google was being a little naughty this year. The NORAD Santa Tracker has followed Santa Claus on his annual journey around the world for the past 50 years. Google helped with the tracking via Google Maps and Google Earth every Christmas Eve since 2007, but this holiday season Saint Nick will be tracked on Bing Maps…. Read More…

Microsoft’s ‘Don’t get Scroogled’ campaign warns users about Google shopping ads

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Microsoft is attacking Google’s new shopping advertising model and they’ve even created a new word and website to prove it. “Don’t get Scroogled” — yes, that’s short for “Don’t get screwed over by Google” — is the message from the Redmond software giant, who just debuted Scroogled.com to educate people about Google Shopping. “In the… Read More…

Breaking down borders: Bing translator app now available for Windows Phone 8

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Whether or not Microsoft is poised to lead the way in the tablet, video game and search engine arenas is still to be determined. But when it comes to language translation technology, the Redmond-based software company is certainly making strides. We wrote about the company’s potential breakthrough in speech recognition technology a few weeks ago and… Read More…

Microsoft’s data proves it: We’re obsessed with iPhone

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Tim Cook might want to send a thank you card to Steve Ballmer this morning. It should read like this: Dear Steve, Just wanted to say thank you. Thanks to statistics from your search engine, Bing, we now know that an Apple product was the most-searched item of 2012. Here at Apple, we also enjoy… Read More…

Google redesigns search results interface: What do you think?

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There’s a big change happening to the Google web search functionality and some of the response so far hasn’t been good. Beginning with the U.S., Google is officially rolling out a redesign and “spiffing up” the search results. They’ve moved options like “web,” “images,” and “maps,” from the left side to the top, just below the… Read More…

Klout investment just the latest social deal for Microsoft

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OK, so this is officially a trend. With the announcement yesterday that Microsoft will make a “strategic investment” in social media metrics company Klout, the Redmond company is taking another step to boost its social media street cred. The deal follows Microsoft’s investment in Facebook, its acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion, and its purchase… Read More…