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Bing gains search market share, nears 10 percent

Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.
AFP - Wednesday, November 18

WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday. More »

  • YouTube launched a free tool on Tuesday that allows news organizations to highlight newsworthy video footage from

    YouTube to connect 'citizen journalists' with media outlets

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - YouTube launched a free tool on Tuesday that allows news organizations to highlight newsworthy video footage from "citizen journalists" on their websites.

  • This handout picture taken in 2008 shows a 41-year-old paralysed man enjoying a virtual walk in the online world of 'Second Life' in Yokohama. Experts at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt have said technology should be harnessed better to give the world's estimated 650 million disabled people improved access to the Internet.

    Technology failing disabled net surfers: forum

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - - Technology should be harnessed better to give the world's estimated 650 million disabled people improved access to the Internet, experts said here on Tuesday.

  • People surf the Internet in Jinan, in eastern China's Shandong province. Chinese Internet users have hailed the webcast town hall meeting held by Barack Obama, expressing hopes the US president can help them convince authorities to tear down the

    China's Internet users hail Obama's Web show

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    BEIJING (AFP) - - Chinese Internet users have hailed the webcast town hall meeting held by Barack Obama, expressing hopes the US president can help them convince authorities to tear down the "Great Firewall of China."

  • A man tries to access a website at an internet cafe in Cairo, January 2008. The inability to access to the Internet in one's own language can be life-threatening, a forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh heard on Tuesday.

    Internet access 'can be matter of life and death'

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - - The inability to access to the Internet in one's own language can be life-threatening, a forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh heard on Tuesday.

  • A woman watches a YouTube clip of Scottish charity worker Susan Boyle singing at her audition for

    British town to offer free wi-fi to all residents

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    LONDON (AFP) - - Swindon has become the first place in Britain to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought to be the first such scheme, officials said on Tuesday.

  • Billionaire Paul Allen (pictured), who founded the US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs have reported.

    Microsoft co-founder diagnosed with cancer

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs have reported.

  • Shoppers at a mall send text messages using mobile phones. One-fourth of US teenagers aged 16 and 17 have sent text messages while driving and over 40 percent have had a cellphone conversation while behind the wheel, according to a study published on Monday.

    One-fourth of teen drivers text behind the wheel

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - One-fourth of US teenagers aged 16 and 17 have sent text messages while driving and over 40 percent have had a cellphone conversation while behind the wheel, according to a study published on Monday.

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