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  Bing Maps Beta gains much richer images

  Enhancements include an app powered by Silverlight that adds very detailed satellite and street-level views, along with other tweaks.
  • Microsoft's Mehdi on Yahoo deal

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  Intel pins hopes
  on 48-core chip

  Processor with 1.3 billion transistors could endow computers with human-like processing abilities and meet today's data center problems.
  • IBM's brainy computing forecast
  • Photos: 48-core debut

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• Wireless operators stop whining about ads

  AT&T and Verizon Wireless have dismissed lawsuits against each other claiming their advertisements were misleading.
  • AT&T gives up on Verizon ad lawsuit
  • Verizon nixes holiday ads to continue AT&T-bashing

  (Posted in Signal Strength by Marguerite Reardon)

• Acer: We'll have the first Chrome OS Netbook

  The company's chairman says in an interview that Acer has been working on it since earlier this year.

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• Intel sees rush to Netbook app store

  The head of Intel's software developer network says app makers are "jumping all over this" to be ready to go when the store debuts next year.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Google runs a fade pattern on home page

  Visitors to Google.com will see only the search bar when they first arrive unless they move their mouse, in which case links to various Google properties will appear.

  (Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit)

• Apple OKs Super Mario app; expect removal

  A non-Nintendo-blessed Super Mario app arrives at Apple's App Store, but probably won't be there for long.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Critical bug fixed in Thunderbird

  Mozilla updates its nearly-baked Thunderbird 3, fixing one critical error and addressing three others.

  (Posted in The Download Blog by Seth Rosenblatt)

• Nook injunction denied, but battle's still on

  In lawsuit related to trade secrets, court denies Spring Design's request for a halt to sales of Barnes & Noble e-reader, but that doesn't mean a future injunction is out of the question.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)

• Psystar ceases sales of Mac clones

  Following a settlement agreement with Apple, Psystar's Mac OS-loaded hardware is no longer available on its site.

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• IP2 eyes low-cost mobile service for developing countries

  The U.K.-based company plans to launch a cellular service based on the concept of the virtual provider, with handsets smaller than a credit card.

  (Posted in 30 Days of Innovation by Sharon Vaknin)

• FCC's plans take from Peter to pay Paul

  The federal agency plans to reallocate money and assets from older technologies toward initiatives promoting universal broadband and high-speed wireless Internet access.

  (Posted in Signal Strength by Marguerite Reardon)

• Another news tweak for Google

  Publishers who want their content to appear in Google search results but not its Google News aggregator (or vice versa) can now automate that process.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Caroline McCarthy)

• Rocket Software acquires Microsoft's Folio, NXT

  Software giant selling off two of its recently acquired publishing tools from its Fast Search and Transfer purchase to software company Rocket Software.

  (Posted in Microsoft by Josh Lowensohn)

• Chevy Volt to cruise into California next year

  GM says the Golden State will receive the electric Chevy Volt at the end of next year, part of a regional rollout strategy to test customer reception of electric-vehicle technology.
  • Mazda, Think, EnerDel partner on electric rentals
  • Looking under Nissan's Leaf
  • More coverage of LA Auto Show

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)
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