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WolframAlpha IPhone App Is A $50 Super Calculator
9:10AM Jack Loftus | Even diehard WolframAlpha fan may balk slightly at the $US50 asking price. Then they, like me, might balk some more as they try to figure out why a mobile version of what’s in essence a free search engine costs $US50. More »
Business
Steve Ballmer Up Close Talkin’ Bout Phones And Stuff
3:25AM Matt Buchanan | There’s something disarming, humanising even, about sitting Steve Ballmer in front of a webcam, sipping a giant iced coffee from Starbucks (which explains so much), talking about how Apple can only dominate “niche” categories, like media players, not something bigger. More »
Entertainment
Clicker: Like TV Guide For Web Video
8:54AM Brian Lam | Clicker, a website that’s like a TV guide for internet video, launched at TechCrunch50 today. Sounds useful and so I’m glad someone’s doing this on an ongoing basis. It’s in beta, so you can sign up for a trial but you can’t yet try it. [Clicker TC]
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Bing Visual Search Could Be A Great Tool, Maybe, Someday
7:39AM John Herrman | Oh, what a romantic vision Microsoft has here, with Visual Search: Imagine a search engine that served up results in images instead of text, and had easily-recognisable pictures, organised by topics and other parameters, which you could narrow down until you found what you were looking for. That dude, with the hair, in that movie? Done. The camera, with the stumpy lens and retro body? Found. That girl, in that band, with that smile, and that voice? Binged. More »
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Microsoft VP On Chrome: “Most Of What Google Does Is Defensive”
1:15AM Dan Nosowitz | Microsoft’s Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism, Walid Abu-Hadba, explained in an interview what he thinks Google’s real motivation for creating the Chrome OS might be, and according to him, it’s not out of love for the consumer. More »
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Ballmer Thinks Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake Is Search
10:20AM Jason Chen | Asked if he could have just one do-over, Ballmer replied, “I would probably say I would start sooner on search.” More »
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Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Mobile Site, First TV Ad
11:10PM John Herrman | Bing’s launch has officially reached stage two: Microsoft has rolled out a mobile version of the site, and debuted the search engine’s first TV ad. How are they? More »
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Microsoft Opens Bing Two Days Early (As In, Now)
6:14PM John Herrman | Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has opened up to the public in a wide, if not total, rollout. It looks pretty good. We tested it with a familiar term, though, and something interesting happened: More »
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Confirmed: Microsoft’s New Search Engine Is Called ‘Bing’, Opens June 3rd
1:36AM John Herrman | Steve Ballmer just confirmed rumours that Microsoft’s new search engine, previously called Kumo, has been christened with the wonderfully onomatopoeic, possibly stupid name, “Bing”. UPDATE: And it’s coming next week. More »
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