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• Bing will tap Facebook, Twitter in answering queries

  By Tim Greene | 11 May, 2012 07:26

  Microsoft is introducing a phone-a-friend feature into its Bing search engine, allowing searchers to ask their Facebook and Twitter contacts to supplement information gathered by the search engine itself.

• Bing and Yahoo sponsored results lead to hard-to-remove rootkit

  By Lucian Constantin | 15 October, 2011 01:37

  Searching for Flash Player on Bing and Yahoo can lead to rogue pages distributing a hard-to-remove rootkit, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor GFI Software.

• Bing bleeds billions: when will it end?

  By Patrick Budmar | 04 October, 2011 13:09

  Despite setting lofty promises and high business expectations, Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has been costing the company nearly a $US1 billion a quarter since it launched in June 2009.

• IBM: After 30 years, PC going the way of the vacuum tube and typewriter

  By Jon Brodkin | 11 August, 2011 08:17

  Thirty years ago, IBM created the first personal computer running Microsoft's MS-DOS. Today, IBM and Microsoft seem to have very different views on the future of the PC.

• User satisfaction study: Facebook vulnerable to Google+

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 19 July, 2011 14:07

  User satisfaction with Facebook is low enough that the social networking site risks losing significant market share to Google+, according to a new study.

• Microsoft's frenemies: The necessity of partnering up

  By Shane O'Neill | 14 May, 2011 01:50

  How do you solve a problem like Apple and Google?

• WatchGuard enhances firewall functionality

  By Hafizah Osman | 27 April, 2011 16:59

  Network security vendor, WatchGuard Technologies, has released the latest enhancements to its extensible threat management (XTM) operating system.

• Microsoft adds Facebook 'likes' to Bing search results

  By James Niccolai | 16 December, 2010 06:24

  Microsoft on Wednesday showed how Facebook friends will be able to influence Bing users' search results, as part of a wide-ranging update on search that also included developments for its image, maps and mobile services.

• Microsoft's Q4 Earnings: Seven Facts Likely to Be Spun

  By Shane O'Neill | 22 July, 2010 06:52

  Microsoft will announce its fiscal 2010 earnings Thursday afternoon, and the pressure is on Redmond to deliver big numbers now that PCs sales have jumped this year, Windows 7 is the "fastest selling OS ever" and Office 2010 is generally available.

• Microsoft Bing grabs search share from Google

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 July, 2010 07:34

  After struggling for a few months, Microsoft's Bing search engine showed growth in the U.S. in June.

• Bing client for Android due within weeks

  By Michael Kan | 14 July, 2010 10:49

  Microsoft will release its first full-featured Bing search client for Android in the next six weeks, matching the search capabilities that Microsoft offers for the iPhone, company executives said Tuesday.

• Microsoft to boost Bing's music, TV, movies, game search

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 19 June, 2010 09:08

  Microsoft will unveil new features next week to enhance the Bing search engine's capabilities to search for entertainment-related content, specifically in areas such as music, television, movies and online games.

• Google's new Bing-like look disappears

  By Sharon Gaudin | 11 June, 2010 05:23

  Only hours after launching vibrant background imagery on its homepage, Google stripped the page back to its usual stark white.

• Microsoft brings Facebook into social search

  By Nancy Gohring | 10 June, 2010 03:20

  Microsoft is launching a new social search page that displays results from Facebook and Twitter, an executive announced on Wednesday at Search Marketing Expo in Seattle.

• Deal with Apple 'easy,' Microsoft executive says

  By Nancy Gohring | 10 June, 2010 03:46

  Microsoft may be the biggest software company in the world, but like everyone else who does a deal with Apple, it too was sworn to secrecy.