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Guns, Lots of Guns: A Video of Microsoft's Bing Visual Search, Aiming Right at Google

Kara Swisher in News on September 15, 2009 at 2:52 am PT

With all the Microsoft employees tweeting about Bing 2.0 last week, especially its new Visual Search offering, launched yesterday, BoomTown thought it might be better just to show it in action. Think of that scene in “The Matrix” when Neo asks for “guns, lots of guns,” and you have a good idea of what it looks like. Microsoft is going to need a lot more of this kind of innovative firepower if it hopes to have a chance of competing in search against Google.

iLife Gets Better; Just Don’t Ask It to Find a Face

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 28, 2009 at 6:08 pm PT

Walt reviews the new features of iPhoto, GarageBand and iMovie in Apple’s iLife ’09.

A How-to Guide to How-to Videos

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on May 7, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

It’s not always easy to learn from the information you find online, and how-to videos can be a big help–especially when they’re well-made and discoverable using sites featuring instructional clips.

Sending Large Files Down the Tubes

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on October 3, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Tubes makes sharing files seem easy, but it needs to make permission levels more understandable, says Walt Mossberg.

The New iLife: We Test Upgrade of Apple Suite

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 15, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Apple’s new iMac includes a radical-looking keyboard, but the bigger change is the major update to its iLife software suite. Katherine Boehret tests the new programs with a particularly close look at iPhoto and iMovie.