Motorola and Microsoft have announced a new deal today that will make Bing search and maps the default for the smartphone maker’s Android-based phones.
The phones will now come with a search widget pre-loaded.
The company signed a similar deal with Baidu last week, to make Baidu the default Web search engine for Android phones sold in China.
The moves come as Google continues its dispute with China over censorship, a fight that has yet to be resolved, and one in which Google threatened to pull its search engine service from the country entirely.
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Aten Design Group, a design firm in Colorado has hosted a “funeral” today for the aged web browser Internet Explorer 6, which is quickly being thrown out in favor of faster, safer browsers, including its descendants IE7 and IE8.
The service will have a coffin with a dummy inside with an IE6 logo for its head. Anyone who attends is welcome to eulogize the browser with memories, good or bad.
Some users already posted their thoughts, on the invitation page.
“I feel terrible admitting this, but … I never really liked him,” writes “Eddie Escher,” via CNN. “He had so many hang-ups, and he looked awful — especially in his later years. But… he was always there when you needed him. You have to give him that.”
The real nail in the coffin (pun intended) is coming next week when Google pulls all IE6 support from its Google family of sites, including Docs and Gmail. YouTube will drop support within a month.
All I will say on the matter is I hope IE6 dies fast, there is absolutely no reason anyone should be using it, ever.
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A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of TiVo today in the long-standing patent case brought against them by Dish and EchoStar, with the news sending TiVo’s stock shares up over 55 percent on gigantic volume.
The district court had ruled last year that Dish and EchoStar had violated TiVo patents and ordered a permanent injunction on DVRs being sold by the company’s that used the infringing technology.
The companies were also told to pay TiVo $300 million in damages, and the latest ruling will finally pave the way for TiVo to receive that money.
