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Real-time search comes to Bing. Microsoft today announced the integration of Twitter updates in it’s search results. Bing shows Twitter results from a few thousand prominent Twitterers(who are having large number of followers and tweets at regular intervals) in the results when ever appropriate.

In a blog post, Microsoft said “There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created, primarily by Twitter”

For example, if you search for Danny Sullivan Twitter or Danny Sullivan Tweets or @dannysullivan in Bing, you will see latest tweets  of Danny in the search results. Here is the screen grab when I bing’ed the same(Yay, you notice that? Along with Googling the web, we can also Bing now. That’s fun right?)

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If you are using still using Windows 7 Beta be prepared for automatic shutdowns of your computer once in every 2 hours. It’s time for you to upgrade your Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC without loosing any of your configurations, data or installed programs.

The upgrade progress takes close to an hour or so and it is painless. Here are the detailed instructions for upgrading Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC.

Mozilla officially released the final version of Firefox 3.5 and it is available to download from here(approx 7.7 MB). Without any second thought, just grab your copy and install it.

Few users are reporting update notices, but I’ve not received any notice when Firefox is launched. I forced the upgrade by downloading the new version and installed it. Firefox 3.5 is awesome and more powerful than ever. Here is a quick walkthrough of new features and also the reasons why you should upgrade

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Want to find out what popular videos are circulated on the web quickly at one place, then head to this nice video aggregator TopOfTheTubes, which contains videos collected from all popular video sharing sites like Metacafe, Dailymotion, Youtube, Livevideo, eBaumsWorld and more. It also provides list of daily top 20 videos.Simply this site is one stop place for all the top videos aggregated from all popular video providers.

Just few months ago we saw YouTube bringing free movies and TV shows in partnership with Hollywood & Bollywood studios. Now YouTube has launched Trailers, an exclusive sections for showcasing the Hollywood movie trailers in HD quality.

Even though there are many blog and sites that offers trailers, YouTube Trailers organizes the videos in a neat way. We can browse through the categories like most popular, latest, opening soon, and those currently in theaters.

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Pac-Man is the crazy addictive game that is immensely popular around the world from its original release to the present day. A creative guy created this funny cartoon of Pac-Man checking it’s twitter account.

Google Analytics team recently released a set of three wallpapers themed with Google Analytics logo. Are you looking for the link to download them? Hang on. They are very poorly designed and trust me, you would never want them to set on your desktop and annoy yourself. (if you are still interested to download them, link is at the end of the post)

Have a look at the wallpapers

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Microsoft officially announced the Windows 7 pricing information and I’ve two good news for you. First good news is, Windows 7 costs less than or same as Windows Vista depending on the version you choose.

And the second good news is, if you live in selected countries(US, Canada, Japan, UK, France and Germany ), Microsoft is offering Windows 7 upgrades for 50% less. This offers is for limited time period so rush to  Microsoft Store to pre-order Windows 7 Upgrade now.

Pre-Order of Windows 7 Upgrades

• Home Premium - $50
• Professional - $100

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You would have probably heard about the massive #fixoutlook campaign running on Twitter and making headlines across the blogosphere. Around 25000 twitter users joined the campaign so far and building pressure on Microsoft to fix the HTML rendering engine of Outlook 2010. Microsoft responded to this and explained the reasons why they are adopting a specific HTML rendering engine even though it is poor in following the HTML email standards.

It is good to see people coming out and expressing their dislikes and media picking up these stories and publishing them on front pages. As usual, whenever some issue like this surfaces, media and blogs bashes Microsoft for not following the web standards. But the same crowd never speak much about Google when there is something wrong with them.

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