Tech Update: Microsoft's Bing Gets a Social Lift From Facebook

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October 14, 2010 Tech Update

Microsoft's Bing Gets a Social Lift From Facebook By JENNA WORTHAM Adding a social feature to the Bing search engine is aimed at sharpening the competition with Google. More From the Bits Blog DealBook A Sale of Yahoo? Not So Fast By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN While media reports about a potential AOL-private equity deal for Yahoo have deal-makers chattering, the truth is that any sale is far down the road. ADVERTISEMENT Turning Business Owners Into Stars of Their Own Stories By JESSICA BRUDER A Web site sells natural products by telling the story of its vendors, making a more personal connection with consumers. Cars Born to Run With Smartphone Apps By JOHN R. QUAIN Automakers want to offer continually updated services by using smartphones rather than in-dash computers, which may be obsolete before they leave the factory. Technology Most E-Mailed F.C.C. Wants to Stop Cellphone 'Bill Shock' Sharing Online, but With More Than 140 Characters Microsoft's Bing Gets a Social Lift From Facebook Intel Tries Anonymity, for a Change Pogue's Posts: Line2: Turn an iPod Touch into an iPhone In Hungary, Mogul Finds Fertile Area for Software In Higher Education, a Focus on Technology Apple Plans to Offer iPhone on Verizon Bits: Sony Unveils the First Google TV Gadgetwise: Facebook Adds 3 New Security Features ADVERTISEMENT Get home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week.

Personal Tech State of the Art Neglected Gadgets on Stage By DAVID POGUE There are several never-reviewed gizmos stuffed in the virtual closet. Let's look at them now. Sharing Online, but With More Than 140 Characters By PAUL BOUTIN Tumblr, which is based in New York City, says it is attracting 30,000 new members a day. Slide Show: Tumblr, Customized App Smart Signing Up as an Organ Donor, the Easy Way By BOB TEDESCHI DonateLives is a shortcut to Web pages where you can register for organ donation. IPad Coming to Verizon Wireless and AT&T Stores October 14, 2010, 11:15 AM Spark Capital Raises a New Fund October 14, 2010, 11:00 AM Tech Talk Podcast: Privacy and HTML 5 October 13, 2010, 8:23 PM EMC Takes a Big-Data Swipe at Oracle, H.P. and I.B.M. October 13, 2010, 8:13 PM Go to the Bits Blog » Technology Headlines From Around the Web What's This? Wall Street Journal AOL, Firms Explore Offer for Yahoo Inside Facebook Facebook Instant Personalization Comes to Bing Web and People Search TechCrunch All 160 Million Users Now Have New Twitter Old Site Dying In A Few Weeks Engadget Apple to hold 'Back to the Mac' event on October 20th, we'll be there live! dailywireless.org Broadcom Buys Beceem More at Blogrunner » ADVERTISEMENT

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How to Tax the Rich

By Scott Adams

If a well-dressed stranger walks up to you at the mall and asks for a dollar, with no reason given, you're unlikely to hand it over. But if the same person asks for a dollar and gives a specific reason, such as "...because my wallet was stolen and I need gas to get home," you're far more likely to hand over your money. (See the book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Cialdini.) After the US midterm election, the question of raising taxes on the rich, or allowing the so-called Bush tax breaks for the rich to expire naturally , will be hotly debated. You might think...

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Good Morning Omss, THU 14 Oct 2010    Rescued Chile miners recover, face celebrity status September home foreclosures top 100,000 for first time Report criticizes TARP contracts to Fannie and Freddie U.S. is currency war's "tomb maker": China economist New jobless claims rise in latest week Attacks kill 5 foreign troops in Afghanistan Crime group charged in $100 million Medicare fraud NATO to chart future course in time of austerity Small Hurricane Paula hugs Cuban coast, to weaken Protein urine test may signal prostate cancer Chile mine rescue celebrations North Korean defector buried Final trapped Chile miner freed Rescued Chile miners recover, face celebrity status October 14, 2010 07:53 AM ET COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's 33 newly rescued miners recovered from their ordeal on Thursday while also pondering the celebrity status they have gained following a more than two-month entrapment deep under a remote desert. Full Article September home foreclosures top 100,000 for first time October 14, 2010 07:00 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of homes taken over by banks topped 100,000 for the first time in September, though foreclosures are expected to slow in coming months as lenders work through questionable paperwork, real estate data company RealtyTrac said on Thursday. Full Article Report criticizes TARP contracts to Fannie and Freddie October 14, 2010 06:49 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department has relied heavily on private companies and troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to manage the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, a report released on Thursday said. Full Article U.S. is currency war's "tomb maker": China economist October 14, 2010 06:39 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States fired the first shot in the currency war and the rest of the world must be on guard for its deliberate strategy to devalue the dollar, a Chinese economist said in an official newspaper on Thursday. Full Article New jobless claims rise in latest week October 14, 2010 09:02 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people filing new claims for unemployment insurance rose to a higher-than-expected 462,000 in the latest week, the Labor Department said on Thursday, while the number of people still collecting jobless benefits fell to an almost two-year low. Full Article Attacks kill 5 foreign troops in Afghanistan October 14, 2010 09:17 AM ET KABUL (Reuters) - Five foreign troops from the NATO-led force were killed in three separate attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday, NATO said, bringing to 11 the number of troops killed in the last two days. Full Article Crime group charged in $100 million Medicare fraud October 14, 2010 07:32 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of people alleged to be members of an Armenian-American crime group were charged in federal court on Wednesday with what prosecutors said was the country's largest single Medicare fraud, involving at least $100 million in false medical claims. Full Article NATO to chart future course in time of austerity October 14, 2010 05:20 AM ET BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ministers met on Thursday to chart NATO's course for the next decade, hoping to agree on new defenses against missile and cyber warfare and on a mandate for global missions despite shrinking European military budgets. Full Article Small Hurricane Paula hugs Cuban coast, to weaken October 14, 2010 09:18 AM ET VINALES, Cuba (Reuters) - Hurricane Paula dumped rain on Cuba's western tobacco-growing province on Thursday as the small hurricane hugged the island's northern coast, but it was expected to weaken as it moved eastward toward the Cuban capital Havana, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Full Article Protein urine test may signal prostate cancer October 14, 2010 06:32 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A protein in urine could be a strong indicator of prostate cancer risk, according to British scientists who say their findings could one day be developed into a quick and simple test for the disease. Full Article

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