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Microsoft throws it's hat into the ring again with yet another re-engineered "decision engine" named Bing. Bing jumped to a 6% market share just a few hours after it's launch, most of the traffic comes from Microsoft redirect all it's old search properties to Bing such as MSN Search and Live Sear...

Google made an announcement of a new product that they will be releasing to the Open Source later this year. Google Wave looks to reinvent email by combining "conversation-type communication and collaboration-type communication." In an attempt to summarize what Google Wave it all about combine a ...

Quite a bit of news coming out of todays All Things Digital Conference especially associated with the soon released Palm Pre. Today we learned that Verizon will be getting the device within 6 months, this confirms the rumors of Sprint have a very short exclusive deal on the phone. Another piece o...

Google has a number of services but on of their less know is their 411 service. Goog411 is a free service to call (but will still cost you standard minutes) that provides a lot of information through your phone. Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone State the location and business type Connect to th...

The startling statistic was released today stating that over 20 hours of video content is being uploaded each minute to YouTube. The growth is quite astounding when compared to when Google purchased YouTube in 2007 the site was collect 6 hours of video per minute and this past January it had grow...

Mozilla's new Jetpack project gives us a peak into how Mozilla may be directing Firefox for future use. Jepack attempts to extend the web functionality by streamlining it's already robust extension system. Although the project is in early development the video below gives a fair demonstration of ...

Palm has officially announced that the highly anticipated Palm Pre will be officially available at Sprint, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart locations on Saturday June 6. The phone will be an launched as an exclusive on the Sprint network, at least initially, and will run $199 (after a $...

Don't call WolframAlpha a Search Engine you will be quickly corrected by the group behind the web startup. The WolframAlpha prefers to call it a computational knowledge engine. It's akin to a fact engine, a way to look for facts or stats. It's very difficult to explain what WolframAlpha is all ab...

Part of promoting yourself on social networks is driving people to your profiles on those networks. One of the better ways is to add badges to your current website. We created an ActiveRain and Twitter badges for our website and wanted to provide them to the ActiveRain community. Feel free to dow...

Google explained why over 14% of users were affected by an outage earlier today. According to Google's blog Google re-routed some of its traffic to Asia and in doing so caused a massive traffic jam. Google released a statement through their blog: Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to...