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, ...

Despite Microsoft’s sell-off of the tech and talent underlying Bing Maps last week, the company has now signaled its intention to stay in the mapping game: Microsoft today announced an overhauled Bing ...

Unlike Google Maps, which has a dedicated app available on both iOS and Android, Bing Maps does not have a standalone app specifically designed for iOS or Android devices. Users have been inquiring ...

While Google Maps remains the gold standard for online mapping, Microsoft is getting ready to push out a huge update to its Bing Maps service that looks like it’ll compete well with Google’s offering.

Bing has announced a series of updates to the Bing Maps interface, including a very welcome move to make its collection of Map Apps easier to find. Map Apps is a growing collection of tools that ...

Microsoft continues to tweak its fledgling Bing search engine, which debuted in June. Today it announced a series of enhancements, many involving Bing Maps, designed to provide a better search ...

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 ...

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: ...

Microsoft has piled on another 215 terabytes of high-resolution imagery to Bing Maps, less than a month after it dished out a massive 165 terabyte cache of mapping data to the service. Users will see ...

Many have scoffed at Bing's (MSFT) "decision engine" marketing, but the moniker is increasingly accurate in Bing Maps, if not elsewhere. In the last several months, the Google (GOOG) Maps rival has ...

If you prefer Bing Maps as your go-to navigation tool, the software's preview version received a big redesign. Focused primarily on helping you plan trips, a load of new features aim to make it easier ...

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 ...