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We kicked off the past week with a look at the Epson WorkForce 310 – a more compact and efficient version of its predecessor. We looked at CaseMate’s charging cases and took a look at the Powerlung lung capacity excercise tool.
For you RC enthusiasts, check out the Mini Cooper Convertible. If you have pets [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Google Squared is a new Google Labs experiment. No, it doesn’t mean a Google search returned with results with relevance (squared), but rather results returned in a grid-like (spreadsheet-like) format, with columns representing different types of relevant (hopefully) data for the query, and rows representing results of the query.
Google Squared was [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has gone live a tad bit early. Originally scheduled to go live on June 3rd (with some early adopters gaining access via Twitter and Facebook), it’s now live at bing.com.
Yes, yes, all that wasted effort to get invite codes … at any rate …
Bing, to me, [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
On Thursday, Microsoft unveiled Bing, which we all knew was coming and was the new name for its long-rumored Kumo search engine revamp. Moreover, it’s not just a search engine. Nope, it’s a decision engine, and Microsoft also states that Bing is a new brand, as well.
To me, Bing either [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Wolfram|Alpha launched on Friday night, thought it was delayed by some last meaning technical glitches. After trying it out for a while, I admit it’s different than a typical search engine such as Google, but it’s not what I was expecting and probably not much more than a niche search engine at [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Scoopler, a real-time search engine, has exited private beta and gone public. For those not in the know, a real-time search engine will update its results in real-time as things change on the Web. For example, Twitter has such a search feature, but Scoopler works across Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Newspapers hurting? Big yeah. But rather than relying on the Kindle DX, which some hope will be the savior of the newspaper and magazine industry, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday night that the age of free internet news is over.
Apparently subscription revenue is rising at the Wall [...]

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A father-to-be in Cornwall, England, when faced with the prospect of neither the midwife nor the paramedics making it to his house in time for the delivery, took matters into his own hands, with the help of YouTube.
Marc Stephens, 28, a naval engineer, already had three children with his wife Jo, also [...]