After taking its Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana to China last month, Bing announced today the launch of XiaoIce (“little ice”), a Chinese-speaking social assistant chatbot for Windows Phone users. According to the announcement on Bing’s search blog, XiaoIce’s technology is…
There’s increasing evidence that Microsoft’s personal assistant Cortana is being positioned as a key differentiator vs. Android and iPhones. A new TV commercial (below) purports to compare Cortana to Siri, with a mock Siri voice saying “I can’t do that” a number of…
Google doesn’t care about Windows Phone, given the latest spat over its YouTube app? Think again. Google cares very much, at least when it comes to search
After releasing a number of new updates for the Windows Phone 8 yesterday, Bing announced today they have launched their News, Sports, Weather and Finance apps for the phone as well. Originally released for Windows 8 last October, the mobile versions offer a new collection of apps for Windows Phone…
Microsoft announced they have made major updates to the Bing Apps for Windows 8 across most of their apps including News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps and Travel. The video below walks you through the changes, but here are some highlights of the core changes to each section. News: You can now…
On Friday, Windows Phone users found themselves unable to access Google Maps.
Microsoft released a video showing how you can use Bing on a Windows 8 powered device. They call the video, “Search Reimagined” and show off the touch aspects to search, as opposed to how search works currently on Bing.com. Here is the video: Bing on Windows 8: Search Reimagined from…