Earlier today, Microsoft’s Bing team has presented their latest developer tools at the BUILD conference which brings the Microsoft development community together for a few days in San Francisco. In the “demo app”, Bing engineers showed how developers could use […]
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Microsoft wants developers to make Bing a central part of their apps, and it’s powering that with a new developer platform unveiled today at Build. The Bing kit will let programmers tap the search engine’s wealth of knowledge, providing direct information and translations when they’re relevant. It should also grant access to natural interfaces, such as gestures, as well as real-world map data. Microsoft showed the platform at work in both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8, so it’s clear that developers who want Bing’s resources won’t be locked into any one device type.
Few would say that consistency is good for its own sake. Microsoft certainly agrees — it just revealed at Build that Internet Explorer 11 will reverse the company’s previously cautious stance on WebGL. The new browser will support the 3D standard from the get-go, joining the likes of Chrome and Firefox. IE11 should improve plain old 2D as well, as there’s hardware acceleration for video streaming through MPEG Dash. All told, Internet Explorer should be a better web citizen — and deliver a speed boost in the process.
Filed under: Software, Microsoft
Source: IEBlog
Google’s Transparency Report has long warned us about the dangers of government overreach, but that’s not the only threat online — there’s plenty of malware to go around. Accordingly, Google is expanding its report to show the volumes of virus-infected and phishing sites found through the company’s Safe Browsing technology. The data includes both attacking and victim pages, and it shows how well web hosts cope with successful infections. Combined, the new information doesn’t paint a pretty picture. Google spotted a total of 67,909 compromised sites just in mid-June, and it still takes over a month for most affected webmasters to scrub their servers clean. The Safe Browsing data isn’t very reassuring, then, but it is a friendly reminder to be careful on the web.
Via: Google Online Security Blog
Source: Google Transparency Report
Firefox 22 has been officially launched and among the many changes and updates, the two that I find the most interesting are ASM.js and WebRTC. Now enabled by default, ASM.js is an optimization module for the browser’s JavaScript engine which […]
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Zeebox is clearly busy these days. It just added automatic show syncing and recommendations to its second screen app a few days ago, and it’s back with a new developer portal that opens the Zeebox APIs to everyone, not just partners. Those building mobile and web apps can now integrate Zeebox’s guides, social networking and tagging into their projects, as well as create synchronized widgets for Zeebox’s own release. If you’re inclined to build on the company’s TV experience, it’s free to try the programming tools you’ll find at the source link.
Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Tablets, HD
Source: Zeebox
Bing announced today that later this year it will be starting a new program called Bing for Schools. Under this program, schools in the U.S. will be able to tailor the experience for K-12 students as Bing will offer them ad and adult content free results
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