We can only write so many stories here every day, but we read (or at least skim) through a few hundred throughout the course of any given day. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting and thought-provoking stories we saw today. As an experiment, we are using
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For consumers, the search rivalry between Microsoft’s Bing and Google has a number of advantages, even outside of the core search features both companies offer. Mapping is one of these areas where the two companies are continuously pushing each other to improve their products. Bing Maps has long been
Groupon’s nation-wide offer today is a digital live album by semi-famous British singer-songwriter David Gray for $6. In a world where Starbucks is now one of the largest music retailers, the fact that Groupon is trying to become the latest unconventional outlet for music doesn’t come as a
boingo
Given the airline industry’s penchant for pay-as-you-go services, we won’t see “free” WiFi on planes anytime soon. Thanks to a new agreement between WiFi-hotspot provider Boingo and in-flight Wifi provider Gogo, getting online in a WiFi-enabled plane will soon get a little bit easier. The two companies just
data requests
For the third time now, Google has released its semi-annual Transparency Report, which shows how many removal and data requests the company receives from government agencies worldwide. This latest report covers the second half of 2010 and shows that the U.S. continues to lead when it comes to requesting
BMW
Our cars are quickly becoming sophisticated computers on wheels and new cars often feature technologies like speech recognition, lane departure warnings, adaptive cruise control and blind-zone alerts that would have looked like science fiction not too long ago. Now, however, the latest J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study
closed
Google just announced that it is shutting down its electronic health records product Google Health and its energy metering product PowerMeter. Both of these were products that Google positioned as potential game changers in their industries but that never really caught on with users and partners. Indeed, one of the
Adrian Lamo
LulzSec, the hacker network that gained notoriety over the last few weeks thanks to leaking large databases of user names and passwords from a wide variety of sites and service, now faces a leak of its own. The Guardian received and published logs from LulzSec’s own private chatroom today
advertising
There were some rumors earlier this week that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was about to launch a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s “core search advertising business.” Today, Google confirmed that it has indeed received formal notification from the FTC that “it has begun a review of
hackers
There has been a frenzy of hacking activity over the last few weeks from organizations like LulzSec and others that affected a number of major brands ranging from Sony to Citibank. Over the weekend, Australian domain registrar and web host Distribut.IT was the victim of a “deliberate, premeditated and
alfresco
Alfresco is an open source enterprise-ready content management and collaboration platform that is currently being used by major brands like Home Depot and Michelin. Until now, though, the organization mostly focused on these large customers with more than 10,000 users. Now, however, Alfresco is launching Alfresco Team, a new
microsoft
Microsoft today announced a new version of SkyDrive, the company’s cloud storage service. With support for the Office Web Apps, SkyDrive hooks into the Microsoft Office ecosystem as well as the world of Windows Phone and regular Windows desktops. The new version of SkyDrive is written to take advantage