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Occipital Uses Its 360-degree View, Sees Microsoft in Its Rearview Mirror

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 24, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

The tiny start-up, which sold its first app–RedLaser–to eBay, is looking to quickly improve on its latest venture, a photography app that creates 360-degree panoramas using the iPhone video camera. Microsoft has said it plans to add a similar feature to its Bing for iPhone app, so the five-person Boulder, Colo., company is hard at work on its next version.

Nokia, Silicon Valley Giant?

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 17, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

When one thinks of Silicon Valley tech companies, Nokia is hardly a name that comes to mind. But the company has amassed a decent presence in the Valley, with about 500 people working on everything from research to inking deals with Web giants to building the features that the company hopes will someday soon return it to the forefront of the smartphone market.

Speaking of the Microsoft-Google Game of Internet Risk, Bing Adds More Square Kilometers in Maps

Kara Swisher in News on March 5, 2010 at 10:53 am PT

In one of the more interesting battlefields of the multi-front war between Google and Microsoft, Bing Maps today added what it calls its “largest imagery update to date, adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new imagery.” The ongoing innovations to online mapping by both Google and Microsoft has been a boon to consumers, who are getting increasingly cool and substantive looks at our world.