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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Badda-Bing Indeed. — This is just too good. One of the features of Microsoft's just launched Bing search engine is that it auto-plays videos in results when you hover over them. Naturally, the first thing a number of people, like Loic Le Meur, did was search for “sex” or “porn.”
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Alex Zaharov-Reutt / iTWire:
Microsoft's Bing boings into life - early — No, you won't need to go to Google to find Bing - all you need to do is to visit Bing.com where you'll find that Bing is now in beta. — Although Microsoft wasn't set to launch Bing into life until June the 3rd, it seems as though someone …
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Bing Tips & Tricks — Now that Bing is available for use outside Microsoft, here are some quick tips and tricks that will help you do more with Bing.com. — 1. Use the full version of Bing — If you are using Bing outside North America, chances are that you seeing a localized version of Bing that may be missing some features.
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:Hello Bing I am Loic
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Apparently Bing Is Something Of A Hit
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon — Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market. — In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
The One Fiber Optic Cable No One on the Dig for Tysons Rail Wants to Hit — This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic cable no one knew was there. — This part doesn't: Within moments …
Business Wire:
Prime View International Reaches Agreement to Acquire E Ink — Combination will Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Reading for Savings and Convenience — TAIPEI, Taiwan & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Prime View International ("PVI") (8069.TW), a leading small and medium display provider …
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Cameron Wilmot / TweakTown News:
Eee PC spotted running Android + Qualcomm 1GHz CPU — Computex Taipei 2009: During the Qualcomm Technologies press conference in Taipei earlier today, we spotted an upcoming prototype Eee PC which was quite a bit if difference from the norm. — The machine was installed …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Video: fanless Eee PC running Android on Snapdragon hands-on, oh my
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Adobe gives web designers more power with Flash Catalyst — With two new products available in beta testing today — Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 — Adobe is hoping to reinvent the way that websites and applications are built in the Flash format. — Flash sites (which may be most familiar …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:Adobe gives Flash a programming boost
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Paul Bonanos / GigaOM:
Nextstop Wants To Be Yelp For Travelers — Newly launched Nextstop is aiming to be a sort of Yelp for travelers, drawing on a community of users who recommend things to do around the world and in their own hometowns. Founded by a pair of former Google product managers, the service seems useful enough …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung's Pixon 12: a dozen megapixels of cameraphone nonsense in June — After failing to show at the Mobile World Congress event in February, Samsung's rumored 12 megapixel cameraphone has finally arrived. Meet the Pixon 12 and its 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a Sammy promise of fast shutter speeds and quick browsing.
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Cellphone Locator System Needs No Satellite — BOSTON — Wanderers with phones and other devices that have GPS chips can figure out where they are using signals from satellites thousands of miles up, but those are easily blocked by walls or trees. The founders of Skyhook Wireless discovered …
Whurley / InfoWorld:
Computer Science Corp. does cloud computing — A new consulting group headed by R. Lemuel Lasher and a three-pronged attack on competitors led by Brian Boruff may make CSC a real player in the cloud — Today CSC (Computer Science Corporation) announced its next step in a company-wide commitment to cloud computing.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
CBS News Goes Live On The Internet With Ustream — Partnering with startup Ustream, CBS News will today announce plans to live-stream all of its “Evening News” broadcasts and breaking news reports over the Internet. The deal is a non-exclusive, ad-revenue sharing deal.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Study: Young adults haven't warmed up to Twitter — While 99 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have profiles on social networks, only 22 percent use Twitter, according to a new survey from Pace University and the Participatory Media Network. — This is consistent with what some observers …
Michael Bush / AdAge:
Showtime Taps Amazon's Kindle for Advertising — Cable Network Uses E-Reader to Promote ‘Nurse Jackie’ — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Showtime may have finally cracked the code on using Kindle as an ad medium. Starting today the cable network is offering Kindle users a free …
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Elizabeth Stanton / Bloomberg:
Cisco, Travelers to Replace GM, Citigroup in Dow Jones Industrial Average — General Motors Corp. and Citigroup Inc. were removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replaced by Cisco Systems Inc. and Travelers Cos., after the first global recession in 70 years crippled their earnings and sent their shares down more than 90 percent.
David Meyer / CNET News:
Psion, Intel settle ‘Netbook’ trademark dispute — Psion and Intel have settled their legal battle over the use of the word “Netbook.” — Since early 2008, chipmaker Intel has been using the term to refer to small, cheap, low-powered sub-notebooks, and its Atom chipset has become by far the most popular engine for such machines.
