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Samsung Galaxy Tab Offers Great Web Browsing, App Experience

December 1st, 2010 | No Comments

eWEEK has been playing with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, courtesy of Verizon Wireless, for the past two weeks. The No. 1 carrier began selling the Android 2.2-based tablet computer Nov. 11 for $599.99 without a contract, timed for the holiday rush. An alternative to Apple’s iPad, the Tab’s screen measures 7 inches on the diagonal, compared with the 9.7-inch iPad, and weighs 13.5 ounces, compared with the iPad’s heftier 1.5 pounds. Also, the Tab has two video cameras, including a 1.3-inch megapixel mini-camera for video conferencing. While the iPad relies on the 300,000 apps in Apple’s App Store, the Tab plays host to the 100,000-plus apps in the Android Market as well as the Samsung Media Hub for renting and purchasing TV programming and movies. In evaluating the tablet, eWEEK was struck by just how much the Web browsing experience of the Tab mimics that of the Samsung Galaxy S devices, such as the Fascinate and Continuum, from Verizon. The application experience is ostensibly the same, with a widget to the Android Market and the ability to download Facebook for Android, Twitter for Android and all manner of apps. While the Galaxy S devices from Verizon come preloaded with Bing Search and Bing Maps, the Tab hews to the Verizon Droid model of saluting Google’s mobile services, including widgets for Google Maps, Google Places, Google Latitude, YouTube and Google Search. Check it all out in this slideshow. – …

Verizon’s Samsung Fascinate Swaps Microsoft Bing for Google Search, Maps

September 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Verizon Wireless began selling the Samsung Fascinate online for $199 Sept. 8, marking the No. 1 wireless company’s iteration of Samsung’s heralded Galaxy S Android smartphone line. The Fascinate sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen (480-by-800 pixels) that is the best and brightest yet of the Android devices offered by Verizon. The device runs Android 2.1, powered by a 1 GHz processor and features a 5-megapixel camera. While Verizon’s Droid line of Motorola and HTC handsets are all packed with preloaded Google Apps and Web services, Microsoft’s Bing search engine is the default search on the Fascinate. Perhaps just as noteworthy, a Bing Maps widget has replaced Google Maps as the default location-based service app on the device. That means no free Google Maps Navigation software loaded onto the phone. However, Verizon has said that the Google services missing on the Fascinate will be readily available when Verizon pushes out the upgrade to Android 2.2 later this year. Why has Verizon gone with Bing over Google to launch the Fascinate? These moves are a nod to Microsoft’s $500 million mobile search technology deal with Verizon. In this slide show, eWEEK walks readers through the Fascinate features. – …

Samsung Fascinate Is the Perfect Android Phone for Bing Lovers

September 15th, 2010 | No Comments

The Samsung Fascinate from Verizon Wireless is an Android 2.1-based device that stacks up nicely to the company’s Droid. Users should know that Bing Search and Bing Maps, not Google, are the default. – Review: For the last week I’ve been testing Verizon Wireless’ Samsung
Fascinate smartphone.
The device, which went on sale Sept. 8 for $199, follows the first three Android
handsets from Samsung’s well-regarded Galaxy S line: the AT amp;T’s Samsung Captivate, Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G and T-Mobil…

Google, Bing Maps Surface Location for Facebook Places

August 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Bing Maps provides the mapping technology for Facebook Places through Facebook.com. However, Google Maps is the default mapping technology for the Facebook for iPhone app, the interface through which most users will access Places. – Lost in the gloss of Facebook’s Places announcement and its impact on
Foursquare and Gowalla is that Microsoft Bing is providing the mapping
technology for the social network giant’s location service on Facebook.com.
Yet Bing still stands to lose valuable traffic from Facebook Places to
search k…

Windows 7, Salesforce.com Settlement, Bing Maps Dominated Microsoft Week

August 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s week, which involved settling its patent-infringement lawsuit with Salesforce.com and adding new features to Bing Maps, demonstrated yet again the companys continued focus on the cloud. – Microsoft enjoyed some positive news this week, at least on the legal front:
the company announced Aug. 4 that it had settled its patent-infringement cases
with Salesforce.com, heading off what promised to be a protracted legal battle.

Â“Salesforce.com will receive broad coverage under Microsoft…

Microsoft Adds Taxi Fare Calculator, OpenStreetMap, Color

August 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft has integrated a host of new features into Bing Maps, including new color and detail, as well as apps such as a Taxi Fare Calculator. Bing and Google are engaged in an escalating feature war. – Microsoft has integrated a handful of new features into Bing Maps,
in yet another salvo in the applications long-running battle with Google Maps.
The additions include a Taxi Fare Calculator and a World of Football app that
displays soccer scores from around the world and zooms into stadiums. In
…

Google Brings Earth View to Google Maps

April 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Google said it has integrated Google Earth into Google Maps, providing an Earth view to Maps as a different way of looking at the world on the Web. Starting April 26, users can click the Earth button in Google Maps. Users will be able to zoom to any location and use navigation tools to pan around the browser. Users can tilt their view by holding down the shift key and the left mouse button while moving the mouse. Google isn’t alone in photographing the world’s topographies. Microsoft’s Bing Maps does a serviceable job with its Silverlight plugin.
– Google April 26 integrated Google Earth into Google Maps,
providing an Earth view to Maps as a different way of looking at the world on
the Web.
Hundreds of millions of people use Google Maps to get
directions for driving, bicycling and walking to destinations, check traffic
patterns, see stree…

Microsoft Adds New Features to Bing Maps

February 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft updates its Bing Maps application with more features, including one that integrates Flickr photos into its Streetside view, which presents an eye-level view of terrain. In the future, Microsoft plans to add real-time video, interior panoramas and constellation viewing to Bing Maps. The Bing road map for 2010 includes an increased focus on knitting together data from multiple sources for its results pages and structuring results more efficiently with help from third parties.
– Microsoft has integrated new features into its Bing Maps application as it
continues to battle Google for U.S.
search engine market share. The latest features continue the bulking-up of Bing
Maps that has taken place over the previous few months and follow the road map
for Bing that Microsoft la…

Microsoft’s Week: IE Vulnerabilities, Bing Upgrades and Rumored Apple Talks

January 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s week involved patching a number of security flaws in Internet Explorer, which were apparently exploited in a wide-ranging attack against Google and dozens of other U.S. companies, and taking its Bing Maps Silverlight site out of beta. In addition, Microsoft was rumored to be in talks with Apple to possibly use Bing as the default search engine for the iPhone, perhaps a sign of increased tensions between Google and Apple as both companies attempt to gain and hold market share in the smartphone operating system space.
– Microsoft’s week revolved around patching a number of security flaws in
Internet Explorer, and around the future of Bing.
Arguably the biggest news on the Bing front came courtesy of Apple, which
is allegedly engaged in discussions with Redmond over possibly using the search
engine as the defau…

Microsoft Bing Maps Silverlight Features Give Users More Control

January 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft announced on Jan. 19 that it would take its Bing Maps Silverlight site, which offers flashy additions such as Streetside and Enhanced Bird’s Eye, out of beta mode. As part of that transition from beta, Bing now includes two new features: Destination Maps, which let a user render a particular map in a stylistic manner (including European, Sketchy, American, and Treasure Map ), and Local Events, which shows what’s happening nearby a location on a particular day. The following slides run through those two new features, as well as a few other Silverlight-only tweaks to Bing Maps.
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Microsoft Bing Maps Silverlight Is No Longer Beta

January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft announces that the Bing Maps Silverlight site is no longer being beta tested and has gained two new features: Local Events, which displays the day’s happenings on a map of a particular area, and Destination Maps, which can render a selected portion of a map in a variety of fanciful styles with names such as Treasure Map. Users attempting to visit the original Bing Maps AJAX site will be asked if they want to install Silverlight.
– Microsoft has declared its Bing Maps Silverlight site, which offers viewing
options such as Streetside and Enhanced Bird’s Eye, to be no longer a beta.
quot;We’re ripping the beta tag off the Bing Maps Silverlight site and
going [full-bore] with continuing innovation on Bing, quot; Chris Pendlet…

Bing Outage Due to System Error, Says Microsoft

December 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft said that Bing’s half hour of downtime on Dec. 3 was due to a system error. During the outage, users were either unable to access the search engine or else received incomplete results to search queries. The outage came a day after Microsoft announced new features for Bing, including updated Bing Maps and a visual search that integrates Twitter and Facebook feeds.
– Microsoft’s
Bing search engine experienced about 30 minutes of downtime on the evening of
Dec. 3, in what Redmond called a
system error. During the outage, users were either unable to access the site or
received incomplete search results.
quot;The cause of the outage was a configuration chang…

Four Ways Microsoft Bing Could Challenge Google

December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

NEWS ANALYSIS: On Dec. 2, Microsoft introduced new features for Bing that included an updated beta version of Bing Maps, and Visual Search integrated with Facebook and Twitter feeds. With a massive marketing campaign over the summer, and an ever-increasing number of new features, Bing’s share of the U.S. search engine market has climbed to 9.6 percent, still lagging far behind Google’s 70.6 percent. However, certain factors could allow Bing to increase its share at Google’s expense over the long term.
– Microsoft’s Bing search engine currently occupies roughly 9.6 percent of the
U.S. search engine
market, according to a November research note from Experian Hitwise, while
Google occupies 70.6 percent of that market. That might seem an insurmountable
lead for Microsoft to overcome, but the execut…

Microsoft`s Revamped Bing Maps Targets Google

December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft announced on Dec. 2 new features for Bing, its search engine, that include updated Bing Maps with Streetside eye-level views and a Twitter feed. Many of the features of Microsofts Bing Maps Beta seem intent on integrating online cartography with real-time information from the Web. In addition to current traffic and live Webcam feeds, Bing Maps Beta offers up local color in the form of images of quirky billboards and graffiti and updates on community events.

Microsoft is integrating more features into Bing as it seeks to compete more vigorously in the online-search space against Google. Currently, Bing occupies roughly 9.6 percent of the U.S. search-engine market, according to a Nov. 11 research note by Experian Hitwise, while Google occupies 70.6 percent.
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Bing Maps Beta giving competition to Google Maps

December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Mumbai: Google Maps is extensively used worlwide. The giant, Microsoft has come out with an upgraded version of its search engine with the launch of Bing Maps Beta.

Bing Maps Beta provides similar functionality like Google Maps, but distinguishes itself with a few innovative features.
Googleâ€™s Street View and Bingâ€™s Streetside provide similar features, however the latter [...]

Microsoft Bing Now Features Updated Maps, Twitter Feed

December 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft updates Bing Maps with Streetside eye-level views and a Twitter feed. This is the second time that the Bing search engine has been updated in as many months. Another new feature is a Bing Bar that suggests searches and images when users begin to type queries, and improvements have been made to the Bing Windows Mobile application. Bing currently holds roughly 9.6 percent of the U.S. search engine market, while Google occupies 70.6 percent of the market.
– Microsoft announced on Dec. 2 that it was releasing new features for Bing,
its search engine, set to roll out over the next few days.
Prominent among these new features is the beta version of the updated Bing
Maps, featuring Streetside and Photosynth imagery. Although Streetside works
very simi…