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Pop Music Maven Arjan Writes Joins #BingIt to Discuss the GRAMMYs

Arjan Writes is the man behind the renowned www.ArjanWrites.com blog, which Forbes named “Best of Blog” for music in 2007, is an authority on emerging acts and cutting-edge new pop music. Arjan is also an official Community Blogger for GRAM…

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Our Favorite Features

 
This week we have been encouraging people to take another look at Bing. To help folks who may not have used us in a while find some of our favorite features, we’ve pulled together a quick list of some cool things you can do on Bing that yo…

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CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10

CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A
recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with
CSS3 Transitions and Animations.
CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (litera…

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Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web

The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site that uses plug-ins
needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free.
Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-…

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Lifelens to Bring Malaria Treatment to the Masses with Windows Phone and Bing Maps

On Friday, four teams from around the world were informed that they had won a $75,000 grant to propel their Imagine Cup ideas and prototypes to the next level. One of the winners was Lifelens a distributed team that developed an innovative and cost eff…

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Let the Games Begin: Your Guide to Awards Season Fun

 

Everybody loves a good rivalry.
Whether it’s celebrities vying for an Oscar, artists competing for a Grammy, or presidential hopefuls stumping for the nomination, we all enjoy a good competition. That said, some races are more entertain…

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Creating Files through BlobBuilder

As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly
important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API,
enabling developers to read and slice fil…

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Bing Rewards December Winners and Our Latest Sweepstakes

 
We are pleased to announce the winners, pending official confirmation, of the three Bing Rewards sweepstakes that ended on January 11. Our new sweeps have begun and end on January 31. Keep reading for details on the great prizes we’re offe…

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Looking Back at Sundance 2012

 
As things wrap up in Park City this week, we wanted to thank everyone who stopped by the Bing Bar on main street. We played host to a group of amazing artists, independent filmmakers and athletes who inspire us (and hopefully you.)
We’ve c…

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Debugging IndexedDB Applications

IndexedDB is a
W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user’s local client,
even when
Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to de…

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