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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 — Bing, you are live, congratulations, and I watched Steve Ballmer launch it in front of me at the D conference. Steve explained they curated the web so that the most relevant comes first, with algorithms and human intervention. Nothing like the Google page rank based …
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.”
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 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Real-Time Twitter Search, Hold The “Real-Time” — Many believe the greatest potential of Twitter lies in its ability to perform real-time searches of various keywords. So when that functionality is delayed by some 3 hours, as it is right now, and has been throughout much of the night …
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Markcuban / blog maverick:
Who Cares What People Write ? — In this day and age of blogs, aggregation sites, personal recommendation sites, link publishing, twitter and more, its not unusual to get a news alert email, or to wake up and google a person, place or thing and find hundreds of references originated in just the past 24 hours.
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.
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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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia Netbooks: Windows now, Android later — Nvidia has its own grand scheme for Netbooks, the tiny laptops that have gained wide acceptance running on software and hardware from Microsoft and Intel. — At the giant Computex conference starting June 2 in Taiwan, Nvidia …
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Apple Now Charging to Re-Download Apps on the iPhone? — UPDATE: Per comments below, this only seems to be effecting some users and only on 3.0 Beta firmware. We've also added a poll in the forum so we can see what everyone thinks. Take a moment to vote, betas can and do change...
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MashLogic Launches, Adds High Powered Angels To Investor List — MashLogic, a browser tool that gives users contextual information about content on websites (since publisher-driven links often don't do the job), is coming out of beta this morning. And they're announcing a second seed round of financing …
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 …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Sony Agrees to Provide Its Older Songs to eMusic — In another example of struggling major music labels and Internet services finding common ground, Sony Music Entertainment has agreed to make its back catalog of songs available on eMusic, one of the largest music retailers on the Web.
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time — Geeks and some part of the tech world consider it cool to hate everything that comes out of the Microsoft campus. Let me share a few instances. — Microsoft develops Vista and the vocal crowd immediately dubs it a failed product although …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft's Zune HD shipping on September 5th? — Look, we fully understand that September 5th is a long ways out, but don't think for a second that Microsoft isn't inking every last detail of its Zune HD launch in stone. That said, Windows expert and all-around good guy Paul Thurrott has been …
Arn / MacRumors:
Further Translation and Photos from Purported Next Gen iPhone Leak — Yesterday's claimed leak of the next generation iPhone has generated a lot of attention, resulting in the original site (UMPCFever) going down from the traffic. One 9to5Mac reader provides an manual translation of the entry …
