Microsoft: Mobile
Polished Microsoft News app joins rivals Google and Apple News
The new app and news experience is great for consumers, but is it equally beneficial for...
Microsoft’s new Outings app aims to help travelers find their next destinations
Developed for both iOS and Android platforms, the app was designed by the Microsoft Garage Project....
Survey: 60 percent of voice users want more answers and fewer search results
Making calls, searching, texting and map lookups were the most common use cases for voice....
Apple building Amazon Echo competitor, will open Siri to third-party apps — [Report]
The virtual assistant revolution is ushering in the next era of search....
Microsoft Translator App Comes To iOS & Android With Wearable Support
Microsoft launches a new mobile app for real-time translation to compete with Google's Google Translate...
Cortana For Android Available For Download Ahead Of Official Launch
A few days ago, Microsoft’s digital assistant, Cortana, became available for download. This is not the official launch, and it’s not...
Bing iPhone App Gets A Refresh With New Privacy Controls, Image Search Results & More Emojis
Updates make it possible to launch apps from the search results page, enable a "Privacy Search" mode, view video snippets inline and more....
Cortana Expands The Boundaries Of Search, But Will It Eventually Eat It Too?
Cortana, the personal digital assistant, has become a key part of Microsoft's competitive...
Cortana Expands To Other Markets, Becomes “Xiao Na” In China
There’s increasing evidence that Microsoft’s personal assistant Cortana is being positioned as a key differentiator vs. Android and...
New Video Shows Microsoft “Assistant” Cortana In Action
Microsoft will be introducing its Siri and Google Now/Voice competitor Cortana with Windows 8.1 in April. The new “intelligent...
Bing Ads Expands Mobile Sitelinks Coverage In US, Will Roll Out To EU Markets
Bing Ads announced today that it will complete the roll out of sitelink extensions on mobile devices in the US in coming weeks. In a post on the...
Apple Makes Bing The “Default Search Engine” For Siri
One of the things that you might have missed if you weren’t paying really close attention to the live blogs of the Apple WWDC keynote is...
Bing Updates Windows 8 Apps Enhancing News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps & Travel
Microsoft announced they have made major updates to the Bing Apps for Windows 8 across most of their apps including News, Finance, Weather,...
Nokia Partners With Xyo To Power “Replacement App” Search For Windows Phones
One of the persistent criticisms of Windows tablets and Windows Phones is that they just don’t have the app selection of Android or iOS....
Google Releases Search App For Microsoft Surface & Windows RT
Exciting news for Google users who have upgraded to the Microsoft Surface device & Windows RT operating system. You can now download the...
Last Minute Tips To Use Mobile Search To Ramp-Up Holiday Sales & Beyond
This holiday shopping season is predicted to the the biggest ever for mobile commerce. A new survey from Deloitte expects that holiday sales...
iPhone 5 Won’t Change Mobile Search, But Can Nokia?
With the launch of the iPhone 5, perhaps the most eagerly awaited electronics launch ever, speculation has been rampant on the impact...
Nokia Now “Powering” Bing Maps
In May of last year I had a conversation with someone who told me that Nokia Maps (Navteq) would effectively replace the infrastructure behind...
Ballmer: 70% Of The Time, Google & Bing Are The Same, So Try Bing!
It’s perhaps one of the strangest product pitches I’ve heard. Asked on stage at Web 2.0 Summit by John Battelle about his Bing...