Microsoft has been developing a software wrapper to better enable iPhone application developers to add Bing search results to their applications, a Microsoft official said, Paul Krill reports for InfoWorld.

The wrapper, based on Objective C, is being tested now and is due out in a few weeks, said Alessandro Catorcini, senior program manager for the Bing search engine at Microsoft, in an interview at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, Calif., Krill reports.

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With iPhone having a lot of application developers without paying them, this is one way for microsoft to tap not “all” but “some” developers to earn more…

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