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First, Facebook Stories and Now…Google Stories!

in News on August 9, 2010 at 4:18 pm PT

A few weeks ago, as part of its marketing campaign around garnering its 500 millionth registered user, Facebook launched “Facebook Stories,” a slick site dedicated to tales of love, loss, serendipity and more that had taken place on the social networking site. Now, Google is launching “Your Google stories: the right answer in the nick of time.” According to the Silicon Valley search giant’s blog, “This is the first in a series of stories from people who have shared how Google has helped them in their lives.” Is this supposed Google-Facebook rivalry getting a little ridonkulous or what?

Intel Makes Leap in Device to Aid Impaired Readers

in Personal Technology on November 18, 2009 at 6:03 pm PT

Walt Mossberg reviews the Intel Reader, a book-sized device aimed at assisting people with impaired vision or language-related disabilities.
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Microsoft Effort to Best Google Yields Results

in The Mossberg Solution on June 2, 2009 at 5:00 pm PT

Microsoft’s Bing search engine retrieves on-target and useful information in a user-friendly manner that looks and feels more inviting than Google.
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