Quite recently, we told you that Yahoo was going to start testing with Microsoft soon, and today, they have officially announced that Yahoo is now testing organic and paid search listings from Microsoft’s Bing powered search backend.
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Bing now does voice-guided SatNav on WinMo phones for free
Posted by nrmodh on May 13th, 2010
Bing Maps is getting into the navigation business in a bid to further deprive dedicated SatNav unit manufacturers. It now supports voice-guided navigation on Windows Mobile 6.x phones on a number of devices.
Following in the footsteps of its rival in the mapping world, Google Maps, Bing has added turn-by-turn navigation capabilities with voice prompts to its mobile application. Read more »
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Tags: application, bing, getting, mobile, navigation, phones, voice, Windows 
No Comments »Bing nowhere to be found in iPhone OS 4.0
Posted by nrmodh on April 10th, 2010
Rumors that Bing was to be the default search engine in an upcoming iPhone OS update can continue to be filed in the rumor bin, at least based on the developer preview release of OS 4.0.
Bing is still nowhere to be seen in the iPhone’s Safari app, or anywhere else in the preview version of the OS. Besides Google, which remains the default search engine, the only other option remains Yahoo.
It’s still possible that the Apple/Microsoft deal could be under way though. And if that’s the case, it could just as easily make it into a future beta of the OS, or in the version that will be made available to iPhone owners sometime this summer.
One interesting change worth noting is that Web searches are now more ingrained into the system search that was implemented in OS 3.0. Now, when doing a local search on your phone, the iPhone will spit up quick links for Web and Wikipedia searches using Safari. This could place more importance on whatever search engine you’re using as the default. Read more »
Mozilla director asks users to go to Bing
Posted by nrmodh on December 13th, 2009
Says to leave google
War of the words aren’t just limited to Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities – the flaming happens even with honchos of tech giants like Google and Microsoft.
In a recent development, Asa Dotzler, who is the Director of Community Development of Mozilla asked users to leave Google and switch to Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Note that Mozilla is funded by Google, the search engine giant pumps in millions of dollars every year to Mozilla for development of their Firefox and other products like Thunderbird. So what exactly happened here? Read more »
