Friday, March 5th, 2010
The Open Net Initiative (ONI) on Friday said Microsoft’s search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors when it comes to sex-related online queries. A January test of a Bing version tailored for users in Arab countries showed that it filtered Arabic and English words for sexually explicit content along with queries related to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender material.
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Bing Censoring Search? Site BLOCKS Online Sex Searches In Middle East, Study Says
Friday, March 5th, 2010
The Open Net Initiative (ONI) on Friday said Microsoft’s search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors when it comes to sex-related online queries.
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Bing Censoring Search? Site BLOCKS Online Sex Searches In Middle East, Study Says
Friday, March 5th, 2010
A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.’s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civilian. More on Afghanistan
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Drone Attack Report: 1 in 3 Killed By Drones In Pakistan Is A Civilian
Friday, March 5th, 2010
In one of the more interesting battlefields of the multi-front war between Google and Microsoft , Bing Maps today added what it calls its “largest imagery update to date, adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new imagery.” That includes from the Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and most places in the United States where there is existing black-and-white imagery, as well as bird’s-eye imagery for Sweden. The ongoing innovations to online mapping by both Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) has been a boon to consumers, who are getting increasingly cool and substantive looks at our world. In February, Microsoft debuted a series of eye-candy features in its ongoing oneupmanship with Google, with a new series of enhancements to its spatial search offerings.
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Speaking of the Microsoft-Google Game of Internet Risk, Bing Adds More Square Kilometers in Maps [BoomTown]
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Here’s an interesting study, embedded below, of an “eye-tracking” survey by Web marketing firm OneUpWeb . It groks the effectiveness of the recent efforts of Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO), all of which have jumped into integrating real-time data with search results. The OneUpWeb study only looks at how a small group of users–split into two sections called “consumers” and “foragers”–reacted to the Google real-time search results
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The Eyes Have It: Real-Time Search Is Still Kind of Invisible to Users [BoomTown]
Friday, March 5th, 2010
John Lennon’s son Sean defends the use of footage of his father in a car advert, saying it was “not for money”.
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Lennon’s son defends car advert
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Small browser firms want changes made to Microsoft’s browser choice screen to make their programs more prominent.
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Browser makers demand screen time
Friday, March 5th, 2010
UK university websites are targeted by criminals peddling counterfeit drugs from fake online pharmacies.
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Drug scam hijacks college sites
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
From 1 March, Microsoft will ask millions of Europeans who use Windows if they want to switch their web browser.
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Europeans offered browser choices
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Top advisers quietly lay the groundwork forObama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
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THE POLITICO: White House plotting its 2012 reelection campaign
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Commercial banks and highflying investment firms have shifted their political contributions toward Republicans in recent months amid harsh rhetoric from Democrats about fat bank profits, generous bonuses and stingy lending policies on Wall Street.
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THE WASHINGTON POST: Wall Street shifting political contributions to Republicans
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
European antitrust authorities have opened a preliminary probe into complaints made against Google by three European Internet companies, including a Microsoft subsidiary.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL: EU Opens Antitrust Probe of Google
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Hmm.
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THE PLUM LINE: Robert Gibbs: Public Option Via Reconciliation Can’t Pass Congress
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Video to appear shortly CNBC and MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch used racially charged language on Monday night, smearing Republican senatorial candidate Marco Rubio as a “coconut.
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NEWSBUSTERS.ORG: CNBC’s Donny Deutsch Slams Marco Rubio With Racially Charged Attack: He’s a ‘Coconut’
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Bush administration lawyers who wrote memos blessing the waterboarding of terrorism suspects and other harsh interrogation tactics “exercised poor judgment” but will not face discipline for their actions…
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THE WASHINGTON POST: Bush lawyers who approved waterboarding to face no discipline
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