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Bing Search Gets Social Bing and Facebook announced an extension to their partnership on Wednesday. Bing search results will now feature a section that shows Facebook profiles and highlights articles that were “liked” on Facebook by a user’s friends. Microsoft’s Qi Liu, president of Online Services explained that Bing wants to make social people part Continue Reading →

Google Is Getting Into The Car Business Google has been working on developing a car that drives itself, using software that detects when something is near the car and makes decisions that mimic a human driver. The test car was recently spotted in California. It’s a Toyota Prius that looks like a normal car except Continue Reading →

Rumors are circulating that the Apple iPad will be sold in select Wal-Mart stores as early as this week. When the iPad made its debut it was only available from Apple and Best Buy, but has since become available at Target and Amazon as well. If the rumors are true, distributing the iPad at Wal-Mart Continue Reading →

Facebook Gives Users More Control Facebook unveiled a series of new tools on Wednesday, most notably the “Groups” feature, which allows users to create small sub-groups within the site. Groups are closed by default and act as a space for group members to share documents, photos and messages. Facebook will also now allow users the Continue Reading →

Are There Any iPad Killers? Tablets are all the rage and every consumer electronics manufacturer is trying to get in on the action, but can any of them compete with Apple’s iPad? According to Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, the answer is ‘No.’ It will be difficult for iPad competitors to compete with Continue Reading →

Next on Live Digital. Will you shop at Amazon’s App Store? Will AT&T have the Droids you’re looking for? Is your tablet ready for some football? And, what exactly does Cisco mean by high-end video conferencing for the home? Plus, I’ll talk with Tim Spengler, president of Initiative North America, I’ll chat with Fredrik Eklund Continue Reading →

The U.S. Government Gets Real The U.S. government has a new service that provides citizens with real-time updates and alerts. From the new USA.gov website, users can customize the types of alerts they wish to receive by selecting from 6,2000 different topics and 144 federal agencies. Whenever new information is published users will receive instant Continue Reading →

Children’s Sites Drop More “Cookies” Children’s websites install more tracking devices onto personal computers than adult websites, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. The investigation into online privacy looked at the 50 most popular websites for children and the 50 most popular sites for adults. Overall, 4,123 tracking tools came from children’s Continue Reading →

Facebook The Biggest Time Suck People spend more time on Facebook than any other site on the web. Facebook beat both Google and Yahoo for time spent on a single site. According to comScore, U.S. web users spent 41.1 million minutes on Facebook in August, which accounts for 9.9 percent of a user’s total time Continue Reading →

Google Makes Mail a Priority Google unveiled a new feature for Gmail called Priority Inbox, to help combat e-mail overload. Priority Inbox organizes emails and puts them into one of three categories: “Important and Unread,” “Starred” and “Everything Else.” The new feature also places a higher priority on messages received from contacts that a user Continue Reading →