Tagged: Bing & News
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#OI2Dublin - Interview with Intel researcher Chris Woods on the future of the cloud (video) News
22.05.2013 Intel researcher Chris Woods believes we are at an interesting time in the cloud revolution and predicts the onset of proxy devices in homes and cars that provide cloud... -
Bing goes on the attack, warning users not to get ‘Scroogled’ News
29.11.2012 Switching to a paid inclusion model for Google Shopping hasn’t been the search giant’s best decision to date, and now Microsoft’s Bing has placed this controversial move at the...Categories: Search Engines, Search -
Bing reveals its top tech searches of the year News
27.11.2012 The iPhone 5 and Facebook have topped Microsoft’s search engine Bing’s technology and news searches of the year lists, with the iPhone 5 claiming the top spot on the... -
Bing tries to prove it’s just as good if not better than Google with a search-off News
06.09.2012 It’s hard to be the search engine living in Google’s shadow, and though Microsoft’s Bing has come on a lot since its early days, breaking users’ search habits will take more...Categories: Search Engines, Search -
A comparison between Bing and Google (infographic) News
24.07.2012 Google makes up 68.7pc of web searches, making it the clear winner over other search engines such as Bing, which comes in at a distant second with 25.9pc of all web searches, a... -
Microsoft posts first loss of US$192m since going public – loss mars an otherwise strong Q4 News
20.07.2012 After writing down a US$6.2bn charge on the value of its failed investment in online advertising firm aQuantive, Microsoft has posted its first loss of US$192m since becoming a... -
Microsoft is preparing a Bing angel investment fund News
09.07.2012 Software giant Microsoft is tapping once again into the entrepreneurial ecosystem with a new Bing Fund, which will be headed up by a former general manager of its Xbox division... -
Microsoft forced to write down US$6.2bn acquisition of ad firm AQuantive News
03.07.2012 Microsoft is to take a US$6.2bn writedown – almost exactly what it paid – for its acquisition of online advertising firm AQuantive. The software giant acquired AQuantive in 2007... -
Bing and Yahoo! both decide to make image search more visual News
22.06.2012 Earlier this week, Yahoo! introduced changes to its image and video search facilities following a partnership with Getty Images, while yesterday, Bing announced a new look for... -
Bing partners with Yelp to enhance local search information News
14.06.2012 In what has been a great week for the reviews and recommendations service, Yelp has cemented its relationship with first Apple and now Microsoft as Bing incorporates Yelp data... -
Digital Christmas: Review - HTC Titan News
16.11.2011 It’s Digital Christmas time again and I’m having my annual déjà vu with a smartphone. Around this time last year, I was handed a nifty toy to play with, boasting excellent tech...Tags: Windows Phone, Xbox LIVE, Smartphone, Xbox, HTC, Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Bing, Mango, Microsoft, Digital Christmas -
The search for knowledge has been enhanced by Google’s latest features News
17.05.2012 Hot on the heels of Bing’s social search revamp, Google have released intuitive new search features that put the search for knowledge, not social connections, at the forefront.Tags: Privacy, Wikipedia, Development, Technology, Search Engine, Siri, Apple, Microsoft, Search, Bing, Facebook, Google -
Euro 2012 app vies to be multimedia haven for football fans News
14.05.2012 With 25 days to go until the Euro 2012 football championships in Poland and Ukraine, Dutch company STEVE. Worldwide has tapped into football fever by creating an iPad app called... -
Microsoft gives Bing a social makeover – surely the rest will follow News
11.05.2012 Microsoft has made some significant changes to its Bing search engine that sees it finally add a social dimension through a long overdue (and deeper) integration with Facebook....Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media -
Microsoft investing US$130m to expand data centre News
23.02.2012 Microsoft is investing an extra US$130m to expand its data centre in Dublin, which will employ 50-70 people and will create 400 construction jobs over the next 12 months.Tags: Clean Energy, IDA Ireland, Barry O'Leary, Enda Kenny, Bing, Windows, Cloud, Dublin, data centre, Microsoft, Wind Energy, Jobs -
Microsoft back in talks with a view to acquiring Yahoo! News
23.11.2011 Microsoft is understood to have signed a non-disclosure agreement with Yahoo! that could pave the way for the software giant to re-open talks about buying the internet company. -
Ireland’s winning Microsoft Imagine Cup team in EU capital News
08.11.2011 The winning IT Sligo team Team Hermes, which competed against 350,000 students from 183 countries to win one of the world’s most prestigious student technology awards, is today...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Research, R&D, Education, Economy, Development -
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update for ‘nearly everyone’ News
20.10.2011 Microsoft is rolling out Windows Phone 7.5 Mango to ‘nearly everyone,’ bringing the newly updated mobile OS to most of its customers. -
Bartz ousted as CEO of Yahoo – CFO Tim Morse to take helm News
07.09.2011 Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been fired as part of a major reorganisation of the internet portal company. She revealed the situation in an email to staff. -
Bing to power Yahoo! searches in Ireland from today News
03.08.2011 From today in Ireland and five other areas, Yahoo! will transition its back-end search technology to Microsoft, meaning Bing will power its search engine from now on.