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Microsoft Offers Alternatives to Google and Their New Privacy Policies

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When Google announced significant changes to their privacy policies last week Microsoft countered with blog posts on how to easily switch from Hotmail to Gmail in three easy steps and how Hotmail is on over 15 million mobile devices and counting.

Well today they have stepped things up a notch by taking . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 39

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Welcome to Episode 39 of the Observed Tech PODCAST. In this show we talk about a million comments on Facebook; over a million Nokia Windows Phone sales; Bill Gates last visit with Steve Jobs; encrypted hard drives and the law; Hotmail on a lot of mobile devices; move from Gmail to Hotmail in three easy steps; Google and its new privacy policies; Facebook Timeline is here ready or not and sensors and mobile networks in Windows 8. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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Bing Is Launching A New “Do More” Ad Campaign This Weekend (video)

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Microsoft is about to take its Bing advertising to another level this weekend during the National Football League NFC Championship game and will do so again during the X Games on ESPN. Bing is going from the former campaign of the “decision engine” to the “do more” campaign.

It is fairly well . . .

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Wikipedia and Google Go Dark For A Day

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Google, Wikipedia and a host of other websites are either going dark or making huge, unmistakable statements on their homepages in protest. The new laws proposed by US legislators, the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, have been attracting a very negative reaction from the web community over the past . . .

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Bing Moves To The Number Two Position In Search

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Microsoft has overtaken Yahoo in search for the number two spot in the United States according to comScore. Bing accounted for 15.1 percent of searches in December; Yahoo brought in just 14 percent. However, Google continues to on top with 65.9 percent of search queries conducted in December, up 0.5 percent from . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 36

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Welcome to Episode 36 of the Observed Tech PODCAST as we kick off the coverage of CES 2012. In this show we discuss the Tech Podcasts Network live coverage of this years Consumer Electronics Show and our partnership with them to simulcast the show from the site which you will find embedded on our main page. Amongst the subjects we cover in this show are Windows Phone and updates; Kinect for Windows robots; turning your Windows PC into a Windows Media Center machine; new photo sharing service from Warner Brothers; bouncing lottery checks in Illinois; meet your spouse while playing Word with Friends; Facebook Timeline scams; Ramnit worm swipes 45,000 Facebook passwords; NASA Shuttle program announced 40 years ago; independent devs get some increases for XBL Arcade titles; Microsoft and Nokia spending $200 million in US for marketing Windows Phone; Choplifter HD out this week; everything about passwords is wrong; refresh and reset your Windows 8 PC; storage in Windows 8; Chrome gets punished by Google; identity theft protection tips; Comet making and selling forged Windows CDs; 1 million Kindle Fires sold; Windows 7 will take over Windows XP usage in four months; Commodore 64 turns 30; partitioning your hard drives; Windows Phone Metro Design Series; Meet Ask Ziggy and the top 10 spam, malware and cyber security stories of 2011. As usual we wrap up with a look at the past week on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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