Earlier today, Microsoft revealed an array of new Bing features. The big show, though, was the release of Bing Maps Beta, a reinvention of its online map application. The new Bing Maps now boasts a Silverlight interface, its own version of Street View (called Street Side), Photosynth and Twitter integration–it even has an [...]
Although Tiger Woods has released a statement about his “transgressions” and asked for privacy, the media frenzy around the car accident and his alleged infidelities continues to swell.
As if that’s not bad enough, Spirit Airlines has come out with a new airfare sale, inspired by Woods, that smacks of a marketing ploy. The “Eye of [...]
The default Twitter bird icon is nothing if not a simple representation of the Twitter service, which co-founder Biz Stone once famously characterized as being akin to “a flock of birds choreographed in flight.”
Artist Adam Koford, a.k.a. Apelad, has crafted a pretty wicked set of icons riffing on the Twitter bird and incorporating pop [...]
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Today, December 1st, is World AIDS day, and companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are joining the (RED) campaign, raising awareness about AIDS in Africa.
You may have noticed that Twitter homepage has turned red, but you can also help out by adding the hashtag #red to the end of your tweets, which will [...]
It seems that the latest security patches from Microsoft, deployed over the last Patch Tuesday, are causing serious problems for some users of Windows, including Windows 7.
In a nutshell, the affected Windows machines simply stop working and start displaying a (mostly) black screen, in some cases showing only a “My Computer” Explorer window.
The [...]
2009 was a year of ups and downs for Yahoo search. While we wait for the Yahoo/Microsoft search deal to take effect, we know that Yahoo still holds firm as the number two search site, with 18.8% market share (to Google’s 64.9%) according to October data from comScore.
Interestingly enough, Yahoo has just followed Microsoft’s lead [...]
We’ve seen a couple of heavy-hitting matchups in our Faceoff series in the last couple of weeks, with Google Android smashing Apple’s iPhone and Verizon trouncing AT&T recently.
This week we have another clash of the titans, with Microsoft’s relatively new search contender Bing going head-to-head against incumbent Google for Mashable readers’ search supremacy.
Who will [...]
This year marked the second annual Android Developer Challenge, in which third-party developers competed for up to a $250,000 purse for the overall winner, as well as sizeable $100k, $50k and $25k 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in each of 10 app categories. Throughout September and October, participating official judges as well as thousands of [...]
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Name: InvisibleHand
Quick Pitch: InvisibleHand is a Firefox addon that shows a discreet notification when [...]
