For all intents and purposes, Bing Maps Beta, which went live Wednesday, is uncannily similar to Google Maps, but distinguishes itself with a few innovative tweaks. For one, there's Bing's Streetside, ...

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 ...

Microsoft has been beta testing a new Bing Maps interface for the past couple of months. I just recently became aware of it ...

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Bing Maps is not as widely used as some other mapping services like Google Maps, but Microsoft’s still investing resources into it in order to develop new features. Today, for instance, the company ...

Bing Maps has been doing some cool stuff lately on the functionality side of things, but the look-and-feel has been pretty stagnant for about a year now — since Bing’s launch last summer. To remedy ...

Microsoft has released a new beta of the map function inside its Bing “decision engine.” After only a few minutes with the Bing Maps beta, just like Microsoft promises, I was able to make a decision: ...

Both Bing and Google have updated their maps imagery. The Bing blog announced an additional 9,460 square kilometers of imagery added to Bing Maps. Not to be outdone, Google announced that not only are ...

Microsoft‘s Bing Maps, like Bing Search and Zune, is one of Microsoft’s great underrated surprises. It may seem like a ripoff of a better-known product (in this case, Google Maps), and that’s not ...

Nokia and Bing have worked together to unify their maps experience. Nokia and Bing have worked together to unify their maps experience. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Bing Maps just got a tad more useful in more countries if traffic on your daily commute is of ...