Motorola bringing Bing to China, via Android

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Google Maps to add bike maps, directions

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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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