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There’s a new Bing slide show that focuses on the Bing Team’s favorite way to save money while planning for and taking vacations this summer. Included in the show are tips on cruises (very economical, with everything included on many lines), avoiding excess baggage fees on airplanes, and cheap ways…

Facebook’s new “Community Pages” are places where Facebook users can share common interests and experiences. These will function sort of like Wikipedia pages within the social network. Initially, they’ll actually source some of their material from Wikipedia. But later, as Community Page members…

I particularly like this latest Bing Maps platform integration because it comes from my home state of Florida. The state has used Bing Maps to display the information being gathered by the national census going on now. The link, available here:…

Matt Scott of Microsoft Research walks us through Engkoo: the new “dictionary” vertical search of Bing in China. What makes this English-Chinese assistance tool unique is that it unifies human translation mined from the web, machine translation, and a language learning experience, into one easy…

The Bing Team has posted all the photos from the student-only Earth Day Photo Contest where the winning entry gets featured on the Bing.com homepage. After receiving 17,000 photos (whew!), they’ve narrowed the group down to 12 finalists. The photo subjects include frogs, oceans, landscapes, trees…

Microsoft’s Johannes Kebeck, a member of the Bing Maps team, is stuck in Stockholm thanks to the Icelandic volcano eruption which has grounded thousands of flights across Europe. But instead of just napping at the airport, he put his free time to good use by creating a new application of the…

The Bing Team just announced a new design for the shopping portal, Bing Shopping. In the updated interface, product categories have been moved to the left side of the page and you can click on them to further drill down into them to find just the product type you’re looking for. An example:…

Since the first Bing theme pack for Windows 7 was so popular, the Bing Team decided to do it again with the release of Bing’s Best 2, a new collection of desktop backgrounds for your Windows 7 computer. Windows 7 theme packs let you click once to install a set of desktop backgrounds that rotate…

The Bing Search team just blogged about the upcoming changes to the Bing Maps platform this spring. Most notably, Foursquare, the hot location-based service, will be integrated into Bing Maps by way of a map application that shows check-ins. If you’re unfamiliar, Foursquare is a location service…

A new theme park called the “Wizarding World of Harry Potter” is opening at the Universal Orlando Resort this summer. For muggles like me who have read every book cover-to-cover and watched every movie at least twice, this is exciting news…even if the park is meant to appeal to children, not…