Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Microsoft’s search site Bing just got a whole lot more social with the addition of a bunch of new Facebooky features so you can “bring the Friend Effect to search” (Bing’s phrase, not mine). What’s ...

Microsoft Thursday previewed a new version of its Bing search engine, with elements including a “social sidebar” that lets users quickly tap the knowledge of their Facebook friends for advice and ...

Qi Lu, Microsoft’s president of online services, spoke recently at the firm’s New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in what industry observer Gregory Huang called “a ...