While it remains premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine.
According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from [...]
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Bing off to a Respectable Start
Friday, June 12th, 2009Take a Bite out of Apple’s New 3GS, and Join YouTube’s Citizen News Channel
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Apple Inc. has generated yet another sensational stir by announcing its latest in citizen journalism, err, smartphone technology, with the iPhone 3GS.
The next-generation iPhone was introduced on Monday when Apple demonstrated a new video recording function that has the capacity to transform millions of iPhones into tiny video cameras-capturing their surroundings with the touch of [...]
Germany data protection official threatens Google Street View
Friday, May 29th, 2009Thursday a German data protection official threatened search powerhouse Google with “unspecified sanctions” should the company not conform with the country’s strict privacy laws regarding the use of Google Street View.
German data protection regulator for the city of Hamburg, Johannes Caspar, relayed that officials were leaning toward using force to pursue unspecified sanctions unless Google [...]
New Search Tool Tackles Tough Queries
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram Research and his team have been discreetly developing WolframAlpha for years. WolframAlpha is a search tool intended to answer lengthy, more in-depth queries. What Wolfram was very clear on, is that the new search tool is not intended to compete with Google, despite chatter to the contrary and the fact that the [...]
Read MoreGeneral Electric’s digital breakthrough puts 100 DVD’s on one disc
Monday, April 27th, 2009General Electric announced on Monday that it has discovered a breakthrough in the form of a digital storage device with the capacity to store the information contained on 100 DVD’s, on one disc. The advance in storage is currently in the laboratory success stage.
The breakthrough disc is said to be in the laboratory success stage [...]
Yelp for small business
Friday, April 17th, 2009Yelp is a website with the slogan, “Real People. Real Reviews”. Users of Yelp are free to post reviews of local businesses such as restaurants, nightclubs and more, a useful resource developed with the customer in mind-think TripAdvisor.
In a surprising move, Yelp is scheduled to begin allowing small business owners to publicly respond to posted [...]