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• Microsoft Reveals Bing Video Experience

  Microsoft today expanded the capabilities of its Bing decision engine to include a new Bing Video destination that combines Bing video search and quality content from MSN Video. The integrated experience provides a new online video destination that delivers... Posted Nov 11 2009, 12:26 PM by pthurrott with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Digital media, Cloud computing

• Twitter Comes to Bing

  Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Qi Lu, President of Microsoft's Online Services Division, announced a new beta feature that enables people to easily search Twitter's real-time information feed directly in Bing. This new feature helps... Posted Oct 21 2009, 04:48 PM by pthurrott with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Cloud computing

• Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support

  This is big stuff, and if there's anyone actually paying for MobileMe a year from now, well, you already looked like a fool, so what's the difference? The Google Mobile Blog reports today that Google has added push email support to Google Sync... Posted Sep 22 2009, 01:57 PM by pthurrott with | with 69 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Google Chrome 3.0

  Just one year into its life and 2.8 percent market share later, Google Chrome hits the big 3.0... Thanks to a full year of great feedback from our users, we're kicking off our second year of Google Chrome with a brand new stable release . This stable... Posted Sep 15 2009, 03:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 30 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing

• Going Google: It's not a slam dunk yet, sorry

  Google has started up an interesting ad campaign in four major US cities (including Boston) in which it touts the benefits and simplicity of moving to Google Apps. Here's some info about this from the Official Google Blog: Every morning, millions... Posted Aug 05 2009, 04:22 AM by pthurrott with | with 68 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Microsoft's proposed browser ballot screen

  I'm embarrassed to say I missed this last week, but when Microsoft announced its proposal to let EU customers choose a browser via a so-called ballot screen, they also provided an image of what that screen could look like. Here it is. Under our new... Posted Jul 31 2009, 04:53 AM by pthurrott with | with 53 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, XP, Internet, Internet Explorer, Vista, Commentary

• Browser ballot screen isn't just for Windows 7

  Mary Jo Foley reports on an interesting tidbit I missed while traipsing around The Netherlands this week: Microsoft's proposal to let EU users choose from competing web browsers isn't relegated to Windows 7. They'll offer this capability on... Posted Jul 28 2009, 04:48 AM by pthurrott with | with 63 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, XP, Internet, Internet Explorer, Vista, Commentary

• Microsoft shutting down MSN Soapbox

  No big surprise, since I was apparently the only non-Microsoft employee to ever use the service. (Never heard of it? You're not alone. It was Microsoft's "answer" to You Tube.) Here's an email I received this week: MSN will no longer... Posted Jul 22 2009, 06:37 AM by pthurrott with | with 31 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Windows Live, Digital media, Cloud computing

• Firefox 3.5.1

  Not a huge deal, but Mozilla has bumped up Firefox 3.5 a bit in the past 24 hours. What’s New in Firefox 3.5.1 Firefox 3.5.1 fixes the following issues: Several security issues . Several stability issues. An issue that was making Firefox take a long time... Posted Jul 17 2009, 08:58 PM by pthurrott with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Security

• How to download a web browser in Windows 7 E (which doesn't come with its own browser)

  Rafael offers up an interesting step-by-step guide to finding a web browser in the supposedly browser-less Windows 7 E Editions , which will be afflicting folks in Europe in about 3 months: Mom and Dad will likely get a pre-built machine, by either a... Posted Jul 16 2009, 11:57 PM by pthurrott with | with 30 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7, Internet, Internet Explorer, Commentary

• Chrome OS to be free, Google says

  The Google Chrome Blog comes to life again with the following tidbits ... Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost. The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design... Posted Jul 10 2009, 03:03 PM by pthurrott with | with 36 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Microsoft integrates Bing with Hotmail

  From Microsoft: Bing – Microsoft’s decision engine – has come to Windows Live Hotmail through a new feature unique to Hotmail, called quick add. Gone are the days of shuffling between multiple windows to search for a map to email to party guests or the... Posted Jul 09 2009, 02:49 PM by pthurrott with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Windows Live, Cloud computing

• Worst blog post ever? Or worst blog ever?

  I used to think of lazy bloggers as being the bottom feeders of the web. (You know, people who blog about absolutely nothing and then end the post with, "Thoughts?" or "Discuss!" in some weird bid to get an actual conversation going... Posted Jul 09 2009, 12:46 PM by pthurrott with | with 42 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Humor, Cloud computing, Commentary

• Introducing the Google Chrome OS

  Well, it's official. Google will take on Windows, not with some based on Android (which is dumb, and curious, in my opinion), but with yet another OS based on the Chrome browser . Here's the full announcement. The bolded bits are my work, as I... Posted Jul 08 2009, 10:38 AM by pthurrott with | with 94 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Firefox 3.5

  Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 today as previously expected. There's a lot of info out there: Product overview The Fastest Firefox Yet Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox... Posted Jun 30 2009, 05:11 PM by pthurrott with | with 80 comment(s) Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Cloud computing