Say what you will about Microsoft and Bing (ok, both are questionable) but Redmond’s ultra new Bing search app for iPhone is hot — at least visually speaking that is. While the styling is simplistic yet modern and basically feels right at home on the iPhone platform, it is actually pretty lust worth from someone with an eye for visual candy. I’m curious to see how many times (if multiple attempts were needed) to get a design tat was up to Apple’s...

When trying to navigate the vast landscape of the internet, search engines are no doubt one of the easiest and most useful tools. Here in the states, there are two main players — Google and Microsoft’s “Bing”. Google holds a majority market share though Bing is holding their own, slowly inching up month by month. Bing isn’t Microsoft’s first attempt at search but is by far their most successful. Perhaps it’s the improved...

From the screenshots above and below, one might come away thinking that the up and coming Bing Mobile is nothing but a *very slightly* freshened up Live Search with a nice new logo and name slapped on it. And at first glance they’d be right. However, while some will knock the rather “old” look that has been around for some time now, functionally speaking, Live Search was not a bad app or service at all. You all know the saying, “If it ain’t...

While Microsoft loves pushing their own in house products, this latest revelation is quite disheartening and downright rude.  According to The Next Report, IE 6 users are facing a rather nasty forced decision when it comes to search engine preference.  It appears that any attempts to switch the default search engine to any search engine other than Bing, results in a big fat error.  While some may say big deal, who uses IE 6 anyway?  Well in actuality it is a huge...

Search is a current hot topic in the tech world. Even more so now that Microsoft’s Bing search engine is starting to float around the interwebs to a lucky few (publicly available Wednesday, June 3rd). From the pictures that have leaked so far, the initial “front page” of Bing is rather attention grabbing. Featuring a revolving slide show of backgrounds, Microsoft definitely picked the corners of their minds to come up with something that is actually...