Motorola bringing Bing to China, via Android
Posted on March 11, 2010
Microsoft’s Bing search engine hitches a ride to China aboard handsets from Motorola.
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Opera releases Mini browser beta for Android
Posted on March 11, 2010
Google’s phone operating system gets a new browser choice as Opera begins the upgrade process for its lower-end mobile browser.
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IE zero-day exploit code goes public
Posted on March 11, 2010
Exploit code for the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer was published on the Web yesterday, a step security pros said earlier would be the precursor to widespread attacks.
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Opera’s Mini 5 browser comes to Android
Posted on March 11, 2010
Opera has released a beta version of its Mini 5 Web browser for Android-based smartphones, the company said on Thursday.
Just like the versions of the beta for other phones, Opera Mini 5 for Android beta compresses data by up to 90 percent before sending content to the phone to speed up browsing over low-bandwidth data connections, according to the Norwegian browser company.
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Minister of Truth: Meet Britain’s Top Data Cop
Posted on March 10, 2010
The U.K. Statistics Authority’s Richard Alldritt is an expert in how governments fudge the numbers. He and his math-police squad are rooting out the truth, whether it’s to reveal the real gender pay gap or the actual rate of knife crime.
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March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style
Posted on March 10, 2010
A Connecticut telephone company starts the first local, public packet-switching network. It paves the way for the always-on internet access we know today.
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Sun fended off Apple, Microsoft IP lawsuit threats
Posted on March 10, 2010
Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio.
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Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
Posted on March 9, 2010
With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
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Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
Posted on March 9, 2010
Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.
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March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
Posted on March 9, 2010
The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
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