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Notebook and Tablet News for March 4th
Here is all the important notebook, tablet and smart phone news for the past week. Obviously coverage was dominated by the iPad 2 announcement, but we have a great collection of new videos and other news to share as well. Notebook News and How To’s from Notebooks.com ASUS launched a few new gaming notebooks including naked eye 3D [...]
Find a Notebook or Laptop in Your Price Range with Bing Shopping
The biggest determining factor for most notebook shoppers is price. With a new natural language processing feature, Bing is now able to understand how much you want to pay for a notebook and show you a collection of notebooks and laptops in your price range. The new feature is easy to use, and yields a [...]
Google’s Bing Sting Operation Has Microsoft Stung
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s own Big Think event for search in San Francisco, California, rival Google has released the results of its own sting operations which may cast a shadow on Microsoft’s efforts in the search space. According to search giant Google, Microsoft’s Bing search has been copying Google’s search results, which Google [...]
Samsung Fascinate Review Roundup
Samsung recently released the Samsung Fascinate for Verizon Wireless, which is the company’s latest installment of the Samsung Galaxy S brand. This 4-inch Android-based smartphone is one of Verizon Wireless’s first high-end Android devices that doesn’t sport the Droid branding. Like the other smartphones in the Galaxy S line-up, the Samsung Fascinate has Samsung’s acclaimed [...]
Google Introduces Customizable Background Images on Home Page
Taking a cue from Bing, Google has just made what might seem like a minor change to their basic search page. When you think about it, the change is actually a significant difference. And I think it is a good one. For as long as Google has been around, they have presented a simple mostly [...]
Bing Cashback Program Discontinued July 30 – Rewards Good for 1 Year
Faithful Bing Cashback shoppers should have received an email today detailing the discontinuation of the Bing Cashback Program. Bing Cashback was a program in which users are paid for using Bing to shop for products online. The “reward” ranged from 2-10% cashback from most items purchased. However, during Black Friday in 2008, back when the [...]
25% Bing CashBack and Newegg Notebook Deals
If you’re looking for a new notebook then today may be your lucky day. Bing and HP have teamed up to offer 25% CashBack on computers purchased from HP Home and Office and Newegg is offering numerous discounts on notebooks as well. The Bing CashBack deal doesn’t appear to have any restrictions so in theory you could [...]
Bing Visual Search Helps You Find Notebooks Based on Looks
We aren’t supposed to judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot about the lid of a notebook. Who makes it, how big the screen is, what color options are available; but you can’t always tell what model it is. Your best bet is to go ask the person using it [...]
Bing is the New Default Search Engine on HP Computers
At the Microsoft Keynote Steve Balmer, who opened with “We Bing, We Bing!”, announced a partnership with HP that will make Bing the default search engine on all HP computers as well as additional partnerships to show Microsoft pages as the default home page on new HP computer purchases. While users will be free to [...]
Searching for “GM Bankruptcy” News
GM is going bankrupt today and like a lot of people I’m searching for info about what’s going on. If you haven’t heard by now, GM is going to announce one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history and it will impact just about everyone in one way or another. I’m using this opportunity to [...]
