SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft's Bing took a major step forward Wednesday in adding rich mapping and image data to its search engine, but until it assembles more data, pretty pictures aren't enough to beat ...

Bing announced they have added a new layer to the Maps data. The new layer is from Open Street Maps, a free editable map of the whole world. This layer is a lot like the Wikipedia concept, where ...

Bing Maps is on a bit of a mini tear this week with new announcements – and it’s only Tuesday. Second, yesterday afternoon Bing Maps announced a major improvement to its overall appeal by adding an ...

Microsoft has rolled out an update to its Bing app, gracing it with a new travel feature, a “nearby” feature, and some map enhancements. The Bing app is Microsoft’s answer to the search-friendly ...

This zinger sums up the current state of the search engine wars – if you can even call them that anymore – with Google crushing the competition, and Bing relegated to the roll of punch line. Problem ...

Microsoft has set its sights on Google Maps, adding more than 165 terabytes of new satellite imagery to Bing Maps. This is the biggest ever data release for Bing Maps, which had 129TB of data at its ...

Bing Maps moves beyond Silverlight and AJAX with the new native WPF Control, which enables you to build interactive tools for visualizing geographical data on the desktop. Released in January, version ...

Microsoft is cleaning house at Bing, dropping one feature completely, while dropping the need for the company's Silverlight browser plug-in to use the other. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...