BlackBerry came out with all guns blazing at its annual BlackBerry World conference earlier today. After highlighting the fact it had sold 150million BlackBerry smartphones to date (10-percent of which were sold in the last quarter), RIM invited Microsoft’s Steve Baller on stage to put the boot into Android.
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The Google/Bing search controversy is still bubbling along nicely with Google’s Matt Cutts taking to his blog to further poke Microsoft about what Google claims is its policy of baking info from Google search results into its process. After being rather nice about Bing and the crew that works there, Cutts gets to the meat of the issue saying that he is surprised with how vehemently Microsoft has denied using any Google info and showing a raft of screenshots to prove his point…
We’re bang on halfway through the working week, so stop, take a breather, and tuck into our plate of all the latest tech news, right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
A Microsoft ad with a familiar sounding tune is causing a ripple of controversy in the indie-schmindie world of the music blogs. The spot for Microsoft Bing features a tune which is not Arcade Fire‘s Wake Up (the fifth single from the band’s debut album Funeral) but certainly sounds a lot like it…
2010 has been another vintage year for tech and gadget adverts. We’ve seen everything from imaginary phones to non-existent controllers. Here’s what we think are the best gadget adverts of 2010
Like Google News? Hah! Pitiful. Now a news service with 175m reporters – that’d be something. And Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wants to make one. He’s talking up the idea of a Twitter news service. Is that an intriguing idea or the recipe for a soup of supposition and downright lies?
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been answering questions over on Formspring this morning. One answer that surprised us, hidden among the “do you like Vespas?” “Have you been to Greece?” “Have you been to Vermont”, and so on, was to the question: “What’s your browser homepage?” Wales answered: “Bing.com – they have pretty pictures every day.” Aw, Jimmy! He didn’t give a full Bing endorsement though, and apparently the pretty pictures aren’t enough for him to actually use Microsoft’s search engine, because he went on to say that he still uses Google for most of his searching.