RIM Teaming with Microsoft for Search, Maps & PhotoSynth(?)

RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis brought Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer onstage at BlackBerry World this week to announce that Bing search and maps will become a big part of the BlackBerry experience near the end of 2011. Bing will be the default browser search engine in the browser. The Microsoft Bing search and maps applications are now the preferred apps in those task spaces.

BlackBerry World Keynote – 3D, Special Guests, Live Demos and Giveaways!

Inside BlackBerry reported that Microsoft showed how OCR camera search, voice search, streetside block view, photosynth panorama would work with the BlackBerry platform.