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Microsoft Bing Goes Live In The UK
Microsoft has officially launched the UK version of its search engine Bing, taking it out of beta where it has been since…
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Flickr Partners With Snapfish To Offer Better Printing Options
Flickr, the Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site so many people love, announced an important deal today as it named HP's Snapfish its preferred photo printing and gift creation partner. Thanks to the arrangement, printing pictures is about to become a lot easier for some folks, and for others, this will even be the first time a certain printing option has been available at all.
Google Wave Gets a Feature for “Following”
Google has added a "follow" feature to Google Wave. The feature is designed to let users stay up to date on public waves of interest. In other words, if there are waves out there that are available to everybody, and you want to follow it, simply click the follow button for that particular wave.
Google Announces SPDY Application-Layer Protocol
Except, perhaps, for multitasking techies and the last few people using dialup connections, load times aren't a huge deal from a user perspective; the average page appears before most folks think to click on anything else. Still, Google looks set to make a lot of friends with the introduction of a research project dubbed SPDY ("speedy").
HP Buys 3Com for $2.7 Billion
HP announced today that it is acquiring 3Com, makers of network switching, routing, and security solutions, for $2.7 billion in cash (at 7.90 per share). Both boards have already approved the transaction. HP says the combination of these two companies will transform the networking industry and "underscore HP's next-generation data center strategy." The company believes this will help customers simplify networks and improve IT service…
Yahoo Launches Spanish Version of Mobile Home Page
Yahoo has launched Yahoo Mobile in Spanish. This is a Spanish-language version of the Yahoo Mobile home page, which is customized specifically for U.S. Hispanic consumers, and is available on over 1,900 devices. "By bringing together U.S. Hispanic consumers' favorite content and services from across the Internet, Yahoo! Mobile en Español enables users to create both culturally and personally relevant mobile experiences," a spokesperson for…
