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Bing Dips Toe Into Real-Time Search With Twitter Tie-In

Thursday - July 2, 2009

Microsoft's recently released Bing search engine has begun adding real-time Twitter updates from celebrities to its results. So far, it has indexed the Twitter accounts of a few thousand people, Bing director Whitney Burk told TechNewsWorld. Search results are tied directly to online ads. While adding real-time tweets may get more people to use Bing, it's not yet clear whether that will help Microsoft get more ads. That will depend on Bing's growth, notes analyst Greg Sterling. [More...]

Wallflower or Extrovert? Facebook Lets Users Choose by Post

Thursday - July 2, 2009

With 200 million members who double as very vocal quality assurance officers, Facebook knows that any tinkering with its privacy policy is going to receive a lot of attention. So its Wednesday announcement of an upcoming series of tests regarding its new privacy settings was carefully marketed as a matter of "control, simplicity and connection" by chief privacy officer Chris Kelly. [More...]

WEEKLY RECAP
Tea Parties, Pirate Ships and a Kayak: A Summer at Sea

Thursday - July 2, 2009

For seven months, a New York Times reporter named David Rohde was held prisoner by Taliban kidnappers. However, you wouldn't learn that from reading The New York Times -- or even Wikipedia, for that matter. In addition to other news organizations, the Times reportedly asked Wikipedia not to publish information on the abduction. [More...]

LINUX BLOG SAFARI
Is Software Installation on Linux 'Broken'?

Thursday - July 2, 2009

You know a controversy is a big one when none other than RMS weighs in with his opinion, and sure enough, that's what happened in the Mono debate late last week. "Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction," RMS wrote on the Free Software Foundation's site. [More...]

EXPERT ADVICE
3 Tips for Brushing Up B2B Security

Thursday - July 2, 2009

Companies are seeking to establish electronic relationships with as many business partners as possible to enhance competitiveness, make it easier for important third parties to engage with them, cut time and space out of transaction cycle times and drive down the cost of doing business. [More...]

Huge Communications Sat to Service Cellular Dead Zones

Thursday - July 2, 2009

The world's largest commercial satellite was launched into space Wednesday, with a mission to provide phone service to cellular "dead zones" in North America. The satellite, owned by TerreStar of Reston, Va., blasted off from Kourou in the South American territory of French Guiana shortly before 2 p.m. Eastern time, carried through pink clouds. [More...]

MAC BLOG SAFARI
Jobs' Quiet Comeback, Mini's Big BOM and Maine's Massive MacBook Splurge

Thursday - July 2, 2009

After the raging blog activity surrounding the launch of iPhone OS 3.0 and the new iPhone 3GS, the Apple-focused blogosphere has finally slowed down to catch its collective breath. Still, there's plenty to talk about, like Michael Jackson music sales going through the roof on iTunes, CEO Steve Jobs returning to Apple's Cupertino campus and the Mac mini's relatively high build cost. [More...]

Green Dam Protesters Wait for China's Other Shoe to Drop

Wednesday - July 1, 2009

China reversed itself Tuesday, lifting the mandate to install Web-filtering software on all personal computers sold in the country. The government's announcement of the requirement, made without warning in June, was met with widespread opposition. It could be that the day of reckoning has simply been postponed. [More...]

On the Road to 4G

Wednesday - July 1, 2009

Though most major U.S. wireless carriers today tout the ubiquity of their third-generation, or 3G, wireless networks, they are simultaneously planning for the future, pushing the development of fourth-generation networks that they hope we'll all be using in a matter of years. [More...]

Is Dell Building an Android PDA?

Wednesday - July 1, 2009

Here's one of the many questions facing device makers targeting the mini notebook and netbook markets: When business users or consumers want to access the Web on the go, will they be willing to set aside a smartphone or cellphone and instead log on using a next-generation PDA? Dell may be wagering the answer is yes. [More...]

Despite Danger, Iranian Protesters Won't Be Silenced

Wednesday - July 1, 2009

The Iranian protesters sneak their cellphones onto the streets and hit record, frantically trying to evade being caught or beaten. The shaky, grainy images are emailed to friends. Then they are uploaded to blogs, YouTube or social networking sites -- offering the world some of the only firsthand glimpses of tensions following disputed presidential elections on June 12. [More...]

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