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TechHive: Hands on with Bing’s social search feature

Posted on May 21, 2012 by admin

Bing is hoping to take on search giant Google by adding new social search capabilities. Joel Mathis takes the feature out for a test spin to see what social adds to search. Continue reading →

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Yahoo lays off 2,000 staffers in major reorganization

Posted on April 4, 2012 by admin

Yahoo confirmed rumors of large-scale layoffs by dropping 2,000 workers. Focusing mostly on the product division, the exits would include some immediate layoffs as well as gradual transitions away. The positions were being dropped to return to a “core purpose” of “users and advertisers,” CEO Scott Thompson said…. Continue reading →

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Google Maps typical traffic expands to regular roads

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin

Google Maps on Monday answered a frequent call to widen the coverage of its typical traffic layer. Previously limited to highways and other main routes, it now includes “arterial” roads, or larger main streets often connected to or otherwise near the highways. Google Maps Android users can still voluntarily contribute periodic location updates to help improve the data themselves…. Continue reading →

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EU to decide on Google antitrust charges after April 8

Posted on March 28, 2012 by admin

The European Commissioner’s competition head Joaquin Alumnia on Wednesday postponed a decision on possible antitrust charges versus Google. He pushed back from a promise of late March or early April until after April 8, or after Easter. Investigators had asked for “some more days, even weeks” to accommodate the holidays while still conducting a proper investigation…. Continue reading →

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BlackBerry PlayBook outsells iPad at Canadian stores

Posted on March 3, 2012 by admin

RIM posted word that Best Buy Canada and its sister chain Future Shop had seen the BlackBerry PlayBook become the top-selling tablet at their stores this week. Neither store was reporting by how much, but they implied that the tablet had outsold even the iPad. No mention was made of overall performance in the country…. Continue reading →

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Briefly: Company of Heroes released, LookTel Recognizer

Posted on March 3, 2012 by admin

Aspyr has announced that its Mac port of Company of Heroes is now available for purchase. The real-time strategy game is set during World War II, and has players fight across Europe as members of Able Company. Company of Heroes can be downloaded through the Mac App Store and the online GameAgent store for $50, which includes the game’s original campaign as well as additional single-player levels from the expansion packs Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor. An Intel Core 2 Duo or higher running either OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.2 or later is required to run the game…. Continue reading →

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C Spire drops cost of iPhone 4S by $50 across range

Posted on March 3, 2012 by admin

Southeast regional US carrier C Spire has unilaterally dropped the price of an iPhone 4S by $50 across all three models with a two-year plan, making the 16GB model as low as $149. The company offers plans starting at $25 per month that scale up to $100 per month for the unlimited data, streaming, texts and voice plan. C Spire uses a CDMA-based EV-DO 3G network compatible with Sprint and Verizon for roaming outside its own territory…. Continue reading →

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US Air Force commits after all to 18,000-iPad deal

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin

Despite talk that it had cancelled the deal, the US Air Force on Friday pledged itself to a contract to buy up to 18,000 iPads. Air Mobility Command has agreed to a $9.36 million pact that will see Executive Technology give C-5, C-17, C-130, KC-10, and KC-135 crews 32GB Wi-Fi iPads to use as replacements for their paper flight manuals and similar guides. Apple is supplying a volume discount that shaves the price down by $79 to $520…. Continue reading →

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Apple preps Yerba Buena for iPad 3 event, recalls iPod days

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin

Helping set a minor tradition, Apple has been getting custom artwork applied to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ahead of its third-generation iPad event. While the work done so far gives few clues as to what will be happening inside, as with earlier years, the scheme appears to be unusually nostalgic for Apple. The swirls recall the iPod campaign of the mid-2000s…. Continue reading →

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Apple says it creates, supports 514,000 US jobs

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin

Apple has reacted to concerns that it was offshoring too many jobs with a new Job Creation promo page on Friday. The iPhone maker contended that a total of 514,000 jobs were either directly created by Apple or depended heavily on it for support. While only 47,000 were core Apple employees, many of them retail, it believed 257,000 in various industries had jobs that depended significantly on Apple and another 210,000 in the iOS “app economy.”… Continue reading →

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