Yet another overhaul to the Xbox LIVE UI is going to drop in the fall of 2011 and this time, its going to be based on the same Metro UI as seen in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and the upcoming Windows 8, consisting of live interactive tiles. The new UI will also include a live TV option along, an integrated Bing search and a fully Kinect controlled dashboard which would allow users to make a voice search, both systemwide and online.
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Microsoft Releases Bing App for iPad [Review]
Microsoft has released a Bing app for iPad. This isn’t their first Bing app for iOS, as they had already previously released a Bing app for iPhone. If you’re a Bing user with an iPad, this is the perfect app for you and it actually shows Google how to make a good search app.
Cicero lets you add any OpenSearch compatible Search Engine to Safari in iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch [Jailbroken Devices only]
A new tweak on Cydia called Cicero lets you customize your search engines in Safari. I had been waiting a long time for a tweak like this to add Bing to Safari before iOS 4. Cicero lets you add any search engine that complies with OpenSearch standards ( almost all major search engines and site specific search engines do this. for e.g. YouTube, Wikipedia etc ). This allows you to do site specific searches without loading up the website first. Blessing in disguise.
Apple to announce Safari 5 with Reader and Bing, OS X 10.6.4 and Xcode 4 at WWDC10
French website MacGeneration has published images of support documents by Apple that show a list of new features that will be available in Safari 5. These features include a new Reader for article reading and improvements in HTML5 support with new features such as geolocation, full screen HTML4 video support and much more. As expected improvements to JavaScript performance are also in the changelog which show it to be 25% than Safari 4. These improvements will be accompanied with better page caching and DNS prefetching for faster browsing. And did I mention Bing will be available as a search option in Safari 5?
Download new Windows 7 Themepack by Microsoft – Bing’s Best 3
Download Windows Live Online Services sidebar gadget by Microsoft
Microsoft doesn’t release official sidebar gadgets too often. They actually managed to remove a few handy sidebar gadgets that were shipped with Windows Vista, from Windows 7 such as Notes Gadget and Contacts Gadget. Recently, Microsoft released a new gadget for Windows Vista and 7 named Online Services gadget.
Download Bing Screensaver – “Bing Around the World”
You would have definitely loved Bing’s Best themepacks but those themes were just for Windows 7. Now you can have Bing’s Best too as your screen saver if you are using Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2.
Bing App Updated for Windows Phone
Microsoft has announced new features of their updated Bing app for Windows phones. It has two new cool features in it. First change is that it has new redesigned home page and with better navigation options. These new navigation options will give faster access to users for common searches like Movies and Traffic.
Google Search Results get Makeover – Bing inspiration evident
Bing will have some great changes in new spring refresh interface
In a few weeks, all U.S. users of Bing will see spring refresh changes in the UI. Initially the changes will roll out to just 5 percent of users and spread out to everyone in the US. These changes for the time being would be just for the U.S. as Bing maintains different versions of Bing for different parts of the world. The main noticeable change in the new refresh would be of its user interface. Check out the screenshots of the new Bing interface.