Bing for iPhone 1.0

Bing’s market share keeps getting bigger (as of this writing, it’s at just above 10 percent), and with the release of an iPhone app, Microsoft’s oddly named search engine is getting serious about expanding their presence on every platform they can.

Bing’s app is the best general search app for the iPhone. It does more inside the app without launching other programs, it adds a new type of image search, and it feels more cohesive. But because it is ultimately a front end to a search engine, and we have not given an Editor’s Choice award for search engines, we can’t declare this (or any search app) our Editor’s Choice. Let’s just say that we really like the desktop version of Bing, and we like this app, too.

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Facebook app developer is through with the iPhone, blames App Store approval process

iPhone Facebook App

It would have been nice for the App Store’s public relations team if the biggest news in the past few days was the introduction of a more transparent progress report for applications under review, giving developers some of the feedback they need to see where their apps are in the pathway towards approval and release. Unfortunately, that minor but tangible step toward a more open approval process is overshadowed by a story of frustration and disaffection from one of the platform’s rising stars: Joe Hewitt, the man behind Facebook’s popular iPhone app, is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore.
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