Windows 7 is now for sale around the world. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is officially kicking off the Windows 7 launch at an event in New York City. Microsoft’s partners will be unveiling new hardware and OEMs are now no longer recommending Vista to consumers and are switching their default choice to Windows 7. Today [...]

It’s been an eventful day: among all the breaking news about Microsoft signing a search deal with Facebook and Twitter, Google doing the same with Twitter and later announcing social search, one can easily forget that today is the day that Vista gets replaced by something better: Windows 7.
As we wrote earlier, the interest for [...]

This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone on Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE network.
For those unfamiliar with the landscape, 4G is essentially the next-generation of cellular networks, designed to carry data and increase the speed and [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Walt Disney Company is close to unveiling new technology to allow entertainment companies to distribute media to consumers using computers and cell phones, rather than on DVD and television.
The technology is code-named Keychest and sounds like its the for-pay web service that Disney CEO Bob Iger announced back [...]

Microsoft’s latest effort to gain relevance in the search wars is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
According to All Things Digital, the company is set to announce deals with both Twitter and Facebook (Facebook) to integrate status updates into its Bing (Bing) search engine.
Details are expected to be announced later today at the [...]

Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature.
While the details are still sparse, here is what we currently know (and we’re still updating, so check back for [...]

While we’re still digesting the news of Bing adding Twitter to its search engine, Google has some news of their own: they’re about to do the same exact thing.
The search giant has just announced that they have reached a deal with Twitter to include tweets in search results.
From the Google blog:
“Given this new type of [...]

Social networking site Facebook’s founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg plans to enter the digital-music business in the wake of the launch of News Corp’s MySpace Music last month, the New York Post said.
Zuckerberg is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com about an outsourcing [...]

One of the most actively discussed topics in the Twitter universe over the past couple months has been the idea that teens don’t tweet – at least not as much as older demographics, and certainly not as actively as teens who use other popular social networking sites.
Now, it appears that this story may be shifting. [...]

Note: Even if it says Facebook 2.5, it is actually Facebook 3.0 due to caching. Delete the old app and reinstall or wait until Apple updates its cache.
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We knew it was coming in all of its glory. With additions such as events, creating photo albums, photo zoom, and a new home screen, how could we [...]