We just heard that Google has introduced a Chrome extension that will automate the process of adding its secure Google search site to the Chrome 6.x branch. The extension, known as Google SSL Web Search, is still in its beta phase, but will end up working with Chrome 6.0.419.0 as well as Linux and Windows [...]
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No Bing Default for the iPhone, but Microsoft Cheers Anyway
June 8th, 2010 |
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Microsoft said it is thrilled to have its Bing search engine included for the first time as an option on Apple’s Safari Web browser on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC. Apple CEO Steve Jobs proclaimed the news June 7 at Apple’s developer conference. The news ends speculation dating back to January that Bing would replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone, a move Jobs denied last week at the D8 conference. –
Microsoft said it is thrilled to have its Bing search
engine included for the first time as an option on Apple’s Safari Web browser on
iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made his brief
endorsement that Bing would join the defa…
iPhone HD frames turn up, Skype to cost on iPhone, Bing to be default search on next iPhone?
June 1st, 2010 |
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Another leak of the frames from what is claimed to be the iPhone HD or 4G has turned up online. The frames look much like the ones in the Gizmodo leak and you can see the frames for yourself at SlashGear.
That new Skype app for the iPhone lets you make VoIP calls over the 3G [...]
T-Mobile offers HTC for iPhone trade, Sprint iPhone in 2010, Apple developing search engine for iPhone
April 5th, 2010 |
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If you are fed up with the AT&T network and your iPhone, T-Mobile is offering a trade-in program through its network of dealers. The program will give you at least $100 for you working iPhone and many as much as $350 towards an HTC HD2.
Rumors are floating around that we are more likely to see [...]
How Google Could Lose iPhone Search Traffic to Bing
January 28th, 2010 |
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If Apple replaces Google with Microsoft’s Bing as the default iPhone search engine, it will sting, according to online ad network Chitika, which says Google searches account for 50.5 percent of all Internet traffic on the iPhone. BusinessWeek recently reported that Apple and Microsoft are discussing replacing Google with Bing as the iPhone’s search provider. With $2 billion in profit from its recent fourth quarter and $24.5 billion in the bank, Google may not have to worry about money now. But will that still be true in a few years if Bing supplants its search engine on the leading smartphone?
– Microsoft’s Bing will indeed gouge Google if Apple taps it to replace Google
as the default search engine for its iPhone, according to a study by online ad
network Chitika, which found that Google searches account for 50.5 percent of
all Internet traffic on the iPhone.
Chitika Research Director…
Microsoft’s Week: IE Vulnerabilities, Bing Upgrades and Rumored Apple Talks
January 24th, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s week involved patching a number of security flaws in Internet Explorer, which were apparently exploited in a wide-ranging attack against Google and dozens of other U.S. companies, and taking its Bing Maps Silverlight site out of beta. In addition, Microsoft was rumored to be in talks with Apple to possibly use Bing as the default search engine for the iPhone, perhaps a sign of increased tensions between Google and Apple as both companies attempt to gain and hold market share in the smartphone operating system space.
– Microsoft’s week revolved around patching a number of security flaws in
Internet Explorer, and around the future of Bing.
Arguably the biggest news on the Bing front came courtesy of Apple, which
is allegedly engaged in discussions with Redmond over possibly using the search
engine as the defau…
Microsoft, Apple Could Make Bing an iPhone Default, Says Report
January 21st, 2010 |
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Microsoft and Apple are possibly engaged in discussions to make Bing the iPhone’s default search engine, according to an online report. Although Microsoft has refused to confirm the rumor, porting Bing onto the iPhone would likely increase Microsoft’s market share in the U.S. mobile search space, where it lags behind Google.
– Apple is allegedly engaged in discussions with Microsoft to use Bing as the
iPhones default search engine, according to a
Jan. 20 story published in BusinessWeek, which drew its information from
quot;two people familiar with the matter. quot;
quot;Apple and Google know the other is their prima…