Motorola bringing Bing to China, via Android
Posted on March 11, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s Bing search engine hitches a ride to China aboard handsets from Motorola.
Read More..>>Opera releases Mini browser beta for Android
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Google’s phone operating system gets a new browser choice as Opera begins the upgrade process for its lower-end mobile browser.
Read More..>>IE zero-day exploit code goes public
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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.
Read More..>>Opera’s Mini 5 browser comes to Android
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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 [...]
March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style
Posted on March 10, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
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.
Read More..>>Minister of Truth: Meet Britain’s Top Data Cop
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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.
Read More..>>Sun fended off Apple, Microsoft IP lawsuit threats
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Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio.
Read More..>>Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes
Posted on March 9, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
Read More..>>March 10, 2000: Pop Goes the Nasdaq!
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The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
Read More..>>Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
Posted on March 9, 2010 - Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment
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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