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Top iOS Apps of 2010: Flipboard, Hipstamatic, Plants Vs. Zombies and Osmos

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 9, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Just nine days into December and the “Best of 2010? lists are already piling up like early snow. The latest, Apple’s iTunes Rewind, highlights the store’s most popular content of the year and, while its lists of music and movies are certainly worth a look, its breakdown of popular iOS apps is most interesting.

Bing Keeps the Changes Coming–But Is It Working?

Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

It certainly is good to see Microsoft working the innovation thing, especially in the consumer space with its Bing search service. The ultimate goal is to gain market share for Bing, from striking deals with hotter companies like Twitter and Facebook to doing a massive advertising and marketing campaign to making constant feature upgrades. This is one of those weeks for Bing, with the launch of a spate of new features that show a lot of chutzpah. But whether all this will spell significant changes in market share compared to dominant rival Google is still an open question.